A 2nd Edition Umpleby. Among the curious, little-used, and often-derided B-list of the AD&D Fiend Folio, there is a monster called t...

Here's my own take on the tirapheg, and also a chance to show out my new unified old school system monster listing format. Comments on ...

Close behind the temptation to laugh at bad monsters ( ha , ha and ha ) is the temptation to improve them. It's the same urge that led N...

Allow me to resurrect this article on creativity that came to my attention via Trollsmyth several months ago. I'm passingly familiar ...

Okay - one more damn good Fiend before we start fixing up the bad ones. Grimlocks are, of course, the Fiend Folio's version of H. G. W...

As Halloween approaches, paging through the AD&D Fiend Folio in search of gems among the rubble for a  series of posts rapidly approach...

How do you improve on skeletons? Those evergreen, Harryhausenish, all-weather, no-feeding-required, make-players-circle-every-pile-of-jumble...

I see the adventurers have stolen the ostrich-egg-sized navel ruby from that demon statue on the 9th level. They're trucking toward the ...

The poor intellect devourer. It never really had a chance, not when its whole effectiveness was tied up with those D&D psionic rules tha...

Part 2 of an ongoing series ... Sometimes the Fiend Folio is better . How would you rather be insta-killed? By a white maggot that hops...

1. A trick monster that depends on players being both hip and naive - knowing about beholders, being dumb enough to run up to melee range wi...