Pyramid Review
The Book of Fiends (for d20 System)
Published by Green Ronin Publishing
Written by Aaron Loeb, Erik Mona, Chris Pramas, Robert Schwalb, Jim Bishop, Brian Kirby, & Jesse Decker
Art by Julian Allen, Toren Atkinson, Tom Baxa, Drew Baker, Brom, Brian Despain, Chris Keefe, Raven Mimura, Sam Wood, Mike Villardi, Kevin Crossley, James Ryman, Dennis Detwiller, & Kent Burles
224-page b&w hardcover; $34.95
Fiends, demons, devils, and other purely evil otherworldly creatures are used both to create adversaries for a d20 System group and to fill out a cosmology for the fantasy world the game is set in. Green Ronin Publishing expanded the realm of fiends immensely first by releasing the 3.0 supplements Legions of Hell to expand upon lawful devils and Hell, Armies of the Abyss to fill out the ranks of the chaotic demons, and the Book of the Righteous to provide a complete divine cosmology to place the forces of evil into context.
In the Book of Fiends, Green Ronin collects the fiends from the 3.0 version books, updates them to d20 System 3.5, throws in new ones and throws in a third collection of daemonic fiends for the neutral-evil plane of Gehenna, and includes a few extra bits such as an updated unholy warrior core class from the Unholy Warrior's Handbook for the previous version, making it a fairly customizable supernatural military-champion-of-darkness class.
In total there are about 150 fully statted creatures ranging from a pesky ½ CR daemon up to unique fiendish sub lords and . . .
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Article publication date: June 25, 2004
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