In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , the term monster refers to a variety of creatures, some adapted from folklore and legends and others invented specifically for the game. Included are traditional monsters such as dragons , supernatural creatures such as ghosts, and mundane or fantastic animals. A defining feature of the game is that monsters are typically obstacles that players must overcome to progress through the game. Beginning with the first edition in 1974 , a catalog of game monsters ( bestiary ) was included along with other game manuals, first called Monsters & Treasure and now called the Monster Manual . As an essential part of Dungeons & Dragons , many of its monsters have become iconic and recognizable even outside D&D , becoming influential in video games , fiction , and popular culture .
71-441: Demon lord or Demon Lord may refer to: Demon lord ( Dungeons & Dragons ) , a type of monster in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Demon Lord Dante , a manga series by Go Nagai Demon Lord of Karanda , a 1988 David Eddings novel Demon Lord, Retry! , a 2017 light novel and manga series adapted into an anime television series in 2019 Demon Lord 2099 ,
142-538: A pastiche of sources. In some cases, this has resulted in legal battles, such as when names taken from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien had to be changed due to copyright disputes. In game books, monsters are typically presented with illustrations, game statistics , and a detailed description. Monsters may be adapted to fit the needs of the game's writers and publishers, such as by describing combat abilities that may have been absent or only implied by an original source. Artistic renderings of various creatures have been
213-522: A 2021 light novel series adapted into an anime television series in 2024 Lord Demon , a 1999 Roger Zelazny novel Shin Hae-chul (1968–2014), South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer affectionally nicknamed "Demon Lord" (마왕, mawang ) See also [ edit ] Dark Lord (disambiguation) Demon King (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
284-590: A BA degree in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge , graduating in 1994, and gained both a master's degree and PhD in international law from the London School of Economics in 2001. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard University . After becoming dissatisfied with the ability of post-modern theories to explain history and political events, he became a Marxist at university. A book version of his PhD thesis, entitled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law ,
355-406: A brief affair with the woman, but stated that her account of it was untrue. According to Miéville, he was in a non-monogamous relationship at the time, about which she was aware. Since 2018, he has taken steps to defend his privacy, following what he described as a campaign of harassment and online defamation. Miéville is married to artist Season Butler. A comprehensive list of Miéville's work
426-699: A candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, equivalent to 1.2%, in Regent's Park and Kensington North , a Labour constituency. In January 2013, he emerged as a critic of the SWP's leadership and in March resigned over the leadership's handling of rape allegations against a leading SWP member. In August 2013, Miéville was one of nine signatories (along with veteran film-maker and socialist Ken Loach , academic Gilbert Achcar , General Secretary of
497-451: A central tool for immersion in the game from the point of its creation. The monsters of Dungeons & Dragons have significantly influenced modern fantasy fiction, ranging from licensed fiction to how monsters are portrayed in fantasy fiction generally. The scope of this influence has been compared to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien . In a 2005 interview, author China Miéville stated, "I use AD&D-type fascination with teratology in
568-408: A dispute concerning the acceptability of sexual "race play" that was prompted by discussion of a controversial art piece owned by Dasha Zhukova . In 2015, he was announced as one of the founding editors of a "bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters", Salvage . He has been the director of Salvage Publications since 2014. October , published in 2017, documents the dramatic events of
639-473: A distraction by Asmodeus to hide his true goal of usurping divine power and reshaping the multiverse. Later official materials claim Asmodeus possesses a piece of the pure elemental chaos Tharizdun used to create the Abyss. The demons are drawn to this and seek to reclaim it. ComicBook.com contributor Christian Hoffer considered "Blood War between demons and devils" one "of the great conflicts that make up
710-635: A founding member of Left Unity . He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 United Kingdom general election , gaining 1.2% of votes cast. Miéville was born in Norwich and brought up in Willesden , and has lived in London since early childhood. Miéville's parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father. He grew up with his sister Jemima and mother Claudia. His mother
781-461: A great deal of Dungeons & Dragons and similar roleplaying games (RPGs) in his youth. He has attributed his tendency to systematisation of magic and theology to this influence. In his novel Perdido Street Station , he refers to characters interested "only in gold and experience". The February 2007 issue of Dragon magazine interpreted the world presented in his books according to Dungeons & Dragons rules. The Player's Handbook for
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#1732787700436852-621: A large amount of its contents was entirely new at publication. The monsters in this book are presented in the same format as the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio . Fiend is a term used in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game to refer to any malicious otherworldly creatures within the Dungeons & Dragons universe. These include various races of demons and devils that are of an evil alignment and hail from
923-528: A letter to Joybrato Mukherjee on 22 April 2024, Miéville rejected his nomination for a DAAD fellowship , citing Mukherjee's role in the cancelling of Jewish-American political theorist Nancy Fraser 's Albertus Magnus Professorship at the University of Cologne because Fraser signed a pro-Palestine letter during the Hamas-Israel war , and his lack of "faith that the institution will stand against such
994-765: A list of "The 9 Scariest, Most Unforgettable Monsters From Dungeons & Dragons", and in the same year Screen Rant published a list of the game's "10 Most Powerful (And 10 Weakest) Monsters, Ranked". Other writers have highlighted the game's more odd or eccentric creations, such as Geek.com 's list of "The most underrated monsters of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", The Escapist 's list of "The Dumbest Dungeons & Dragons Monsters Ever (And How To Use Them)", and Cracked.com 's "15 Idiotic Dungeons and Dragons Monsters". D&D' s monsters have also been licensed as toys, like in LJN 's action figures, and even candy. The number and variety of different monsters contributes to keeping
1065-460: A list of the game's "10 Most Powerful (And 10 Weakest) Monsters, Ranked" in 2018, calling this one of the strongest, saying "There are a lot of giant monsters that roam the various Dungeons & Dragons worlds, but none is more feared than the Tarrasque. This creature is an engine of destruction and it can crush entire cities in a single rampage." Backstab reviewer Michaël Croitoriu highlights
1136-673: A lot of my books, and I have the original Monster Manual, and the Monster Manual 2, and the Fiend Folio. I still collect role-playing game bestiaries, because I find that kind of fascination with the creation of the monstrous tremendously inspiring." References and homages to Dungeons & Dragons monsters can be found in works such as Adventure Time , and the game's monsters have inspired tributes that both celebrate and mock various creatures. A 2013 io9 retrospective detailed memorable monsters, and in 2018 SyFy Wire published
1207-663: A maternal descendant of George Charles Mostyn, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden ; they divorced in 1992. Miéville boarded at Oakham School , a co-educational independent school in Oakham , Rutland , for two years. He subsequently attended University College School . At the age of eighteen, in 1990, he taught English for a year in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and in Middle Eastern politics. Miéville studied for
1278-488: A more relaxed attitude towards the hobby, Wizards of the Coast reinserted many of these excised references in the third edition of the game. They kept intact the terms they had been replaced with, using both when applicable to appeal both to older players and those who played in subsequent editions of the game. While the 1st edition of AD&D used the term "Daemon", all subsequent editions beginning with 2nd edition have used
1349-428: A primordial race for use as a weapon against the gods. The tarrasque has been called "a creature that embodies wanton destruction" and "singularly deadly" and been compared to a kaiju . It was ranked No. 2 on the list of the ten best high-level monsters in Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition For Dummies . Rob Bricken from io9 named the tarrasque as the 10th most memorable D&D monster. Screen Rant compiled
1420-466: A shameful program of repression and anti-Palestinian racism." In the early 2000s, Miéville lived in London with his partner Emma Bircham. They were both cast as extras in the 1999 film Notting Hill , which he jokingly described as a dystopian alternate history of an ethnically cleansed city. In 2013, Miéville denied allegations of emotional abuse made by an ex-girlfriend. He acknowledged having had
1491-463: A situation that may be profitable or a potential for the advancement of their own schemes. The yugoloths are portrayed as manipulative, secretive, and mercenary by nature, often acting as soldiers for deities in their own private wars, or even at times aiding both sides of the Blood War. In 4th Edition, the yugoloths are considered to be demons, and their previously standard naming convention of "loth"
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#17327877004361562-506: A smoldering cold war that was formerly an all-out war. The Blood War has been given various causes across different game books. Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss attributes it to an offshoot of the primordial battles between law and chaos, continued out of violent and sadistic stubbornness. Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells depicts Asmodeus as a formerly angelic being tasked with fighting an eternal war against
1633-447: Is a thick, glossy caramel-colored shell or carapace. It has spikes coming from its chin, the sides of the mouth, the underside of its neck, the elbows of its front arms, and its shell. The creature also has two horns projecting forwards from the top of its head. The tarrasque's skin is very hard and thick, and provides excellent armor. It is immune or resistant to most offensive magic, and regenerates damage quickly. The second edition of
1704-491: Is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird . Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award , British Fantasy Award , BSFA Award , Hugo Award , Locus Award , and World Fantasy Awards . He holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins (three). His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th best fantasy novel published in
1775-622: Is described in 3.5 edition of the Monster Manual II and is the hybrid of a devil and an unsuspecting duergar . The fiendish creatures are simply fiendish versions of other species in Dungeons & Dragons. They typically look like fearsome travesties of beings from the Material Plane . Most fiendish species are divided into a number of variants, usually in a hierarchy of increasing power and cunning. The hecatoncheires in
1846-527: Is replaced by "demon" (Ex. the Mezzoloth is the 4e Mezzodemon). In fifth edition, yugoloths are listed as neutral evil fiends under their original names. The demodands are race of evil fiends that live on the plane of Carceri (Tarterus in 1st edition D&D ). Demodands were introduced in the 1st edition supplement Monster Manual II , renamed as gehreleths in the 2nd edition Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix , and reintroduced as demodands in
1917-609: Is some flexibility within these groupings. For example, many kinds of creatures can become undead or can be used to form magical constructs. The 3rd edition of the game also used a broader type named "outsiders", encompassing any creature from the Outer Planes or Inner Planes . The Monster Manual (1977) was the initial monster book for the first edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, published by TSR, Inc. in 1977. Gary Gygax wrote much of
1988-419: Is the tanar'ri ( / t ə ˈ n ɑːr i / ). "True" tanar'ri such as the balors (originally called Balrogs ) and the six-armed serpentine mariliths push other weaker tanar'ri around and organise them into makeshift armies for battle. Demon lords and demon princes such as Orcus , Demogorgon , Juiblex, Zuggtmoy, Graz'zt, and countless others are said to rule over the demons of their individual layers of
2059-492: Is very loosely based upon the French legend of the tarasque . It is very large, 50 feet (15 meters) tall and 70 feet (21 meters) long, and has a Tyrannosaurus rex –like form, although it is much more broad and muscular, with a differently shaped head, and with larger and more developed front arms. It has brown skin, with scabs and warts and bits of encrusted dung all over it which are grey in color. Protecting its back and tail
2130-462: The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Kate Hudson , fellow novelist Michael Rosen , and actor Roger Lloyd Pack ) of an open letter to The Guardian announcing the foundation of a "new party of the left", to be called Left Unity . The letter, which claimed that Labour policies on austerity and the breaking of ties with trades unions amounted to a "final betrayal of the working-class people it
2201-642: The Feywild and are exiled to the Gray Wastes of Hades . Rakshasas are fiends (often tiger-headed) that may have originated on Acheron according to 3rd edition sources. In 5th edition they originated in the Nine Hells . In the 4th edition game, Slaadi are chaotic evil and originate out of the Elemental Chaos. This is markedly different from the portrayal of Slaadi in all prior editions of
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2272-511: The Lower Planes . All fiends are extraplanar outsiders . Fiends have been considered among "D&D's most classic monsters". Demons are a chaotic evil race native to the Abyss ; they are rapacious, cruel and arbitrary. They are also portrayed as more widespread than other races of fiends, as the Abyss and its population are both theoretically infinite in size. The dominant race of demons
2343-559: The nymph and succubus , were seen by Philip J. Clements as an instance of the sexist tropes the game draws on which presented female sexuality as inherently dangerous. Many kinds of monsters can be classified into typologies based on their common characteristics, and various books and game guides have been produced focusing on specific kinds of monsters. Such groupings include humanoids , monstrosities, dragons, giants , undead , aberrations, fiends, celestials, fey , elementals , constructs , oozes and plants ; and beasts. There
2414-772: The 20th century. During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. Miéville is active in left politics in the UK and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK). He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party , and in 2013 became
2485-458: The 3rd edition sourcebook Fiend Folio . In 1st edition D&D , the three types of demodands from weakest to strongest were tarry, slime, and shaggy. In 2nd and 3rd editions, the three types are farastu, kelubar, and shator. The hordlings are fiends that form the hordes of the Gray Waste of Hades . They first appeared in the 1st edition supplement Monster Manual II . Hordlings wander
2556-455: The Abyss, as much as the chaotic demons can be ruled over. The devils , of which the ruling type are called baatezu ( / b eɪ ˈ ɑː t ɛ z uː / ), are lawful evil natives of the Nine Hells of Baator ; they are said to subjugate the weak and rule tyrannically over their domains. Pit fiends are the most powerful baatezu, though even the strongest pit fiends are surpassed by the Lords of
2627-526: The Blood War], you'll be more inclined to treat them as unique creatures, with their own goals and motivations." The tarrasque is a gigantic lizard-like creature which exists only to eat, kill, and destroy, "the most dreaded monster native to the Prime Material plane ". The tarrasque was introduced in 1983 in the Monster Manual II , in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons . It
2698-808: The City ). His work has been described as new weird fiction. Miéville has listed M. John Harrison , Michael de Larrabeiti , Michael Moorcock , Thomas M. Disch , Charles Williams , Tim Powers , and J. G. Ballard as literary "heroes"; he has also frequently discussed as influences H. P. Lovecraft , Mervyn Peake , Ursula K. Le Guin , and Gene Wolfe . He has said that he would like his novels "to be read for [his imagined city] New Crobuzon as Iain Sinclair does for London". Miéville has admitted that his books contain some allusions to Russian writers, including Andrei Platonov , Arkady and Boris Strugatsky , Evgeny Voiskunsky and Isai Lukodyanov . Miéville played
2769-494: The D&;D multiverse". Black Gate reviewer Andrew Zimmerman Jones described it as the "eternal" conflict "for who gets claim on being more evil" and praised the Blood War as a background for adventures putting the player characters between the fronts. The inclusion of demons and devils proved controversial among critics of Dungeons & Dragons . TSR eliminated most references to occult symbols, demons, and devils from
2840-592: The Galchutt, who did not appear until later on in Chaositech . Cook originally planned on perhaps renaming them so their name was not quite so similar to kytons, or chain devils, as well as other episodes of Cook's Ptolus campaign to see how they were originally used. Night hags are fiends from the Gray Wastes of Hades that traffic in the souls of mortals in 3rd edition sources. In 5th edition they come from
2911-607: The Gray Waste preying upon everything they come across, even other hordlings. Hordlings vary greatly in appearance. It is said that hordlings evolved from larvae whose hatred was so unique, their souls became individual. The hordlings can be summoned using an artifact known as the Bringer of Doom , which was created around the time of the Invoked Devastation of Greyhawk . Hordlings are the most common inhabitants of
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2982-532: The Gray Waste. They also occasionally roam the other Lower Planes as well. The kythons (not to be confused with kytons, which are chain devils Baatezu ) are distinct from the other fiends in that they did not originate on any of the lower planes. When a group of fiends (the Galchutt, from Monte Cook's Chaositech and Ptolus ) were trapped on the Material Plane , they tried creating more of their own kind through magical means. The results were eyeless reptilian creatures with insectoid traits and neutral evil traits. As
3053-457: The Nine , or Archdevils, whose ranks include Baalzebul , Mephistopheles , and Asmodeus . Unlike the demons, the devils are described as arranged in a strict hierarchy. Like the demons, the devils are scheming backstabbers; while a demon only keeps its words when it is convenient for it, a devil keeps its word all too well—they are said to be used to exploiting repressive bureaucratic machinations to
3124-533: The Russian revolution. Jonathan Steele reviewed it for The Guardian . Steele considers it an ideological though nuanced retelling: "Known as a left-wing activist, [...] Miéville writes with the brio and excitement of an enthusiast who would have wanted the revolution to succeed. But he is primarily interested in the dramatic narrative – the weird facts – of the most turbulent year in Russia's history". In
3195-410: The culture it was taken from. Nicholas Montegriffo from The Gamer called them "worthy foes for epic heroes" and found the down-scaling of offensively usable arms sad. The Blood War concept was introduced as part of the new background for the outer planes in 1991's Monstrous Compendium Volume Outer Planes Appendix . The conflict is depicted as a bitter war of annihilation between the baatezu race and
3266-412: The deadliest monsters of D&D by several reviewers. Marley King from Screen Rant recommended the hecatoncheires for Dungeons Masters to pit against high-level parties as a monster that is not "too cliché". He commented that - aside from the monster's many attacks, and high perception - it was given "incredible martial prowess" in the game, hearkening back to the importance of skill in battle in
3337-409: The demons. When he and his followers take on demonic traits to better combat their foes, these angels, now deemed devils, are either exiled to or granted (depending on perspective) their own plane, where they fight the Blood War without disturbing the primordial lords of order. This is depicted as possibly being self-serving historical revisionism. The Guide to Hell instead portrays the Blood War as
3408-611: The fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons cited his novel Perdido Street Station as a source of inspiration for the game's designers. In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game supplement Guide to the River Kingdoms . Miéville once described Tolkien as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature". Miéville is also indebted to Moorcock, having cited his essay " Epic Pooh " as
3479-566: The fullest and thus always know all ways around the letter of a contract to begin with. The tanar'ri and the baatezu hold an eternal enmity for one another and wage the Blood War against one another. The yugoloths (called daemons in 1st edition D&D ) are neutral evil natives of the Bleak Eternity of Gehenna and the Gray Wastes of Hades ; they are neutral to the affairs of the other fiendish races, interfering only when they see
3550-547: The game included rules for extracting treasure from the creature's carcass. In the Spelljammer series, the accessory Practical Planetology suggests the tarrasques originate from the planet Falx. Several hundred tarrasques live there, where they feed upon the native Imbul, a lizard-like creature. In the 4th edition of the game, the tarrasque is listed as an "abomination" and classed as a "Gargantuan elemental magical beast"—a living engine of death and destruction created by
3621-445: The game interesting and forces players to think about employing diverse strategies. The monsters of Dungeons & Dragons have received criticism from multiple sources . In addition to other game elements, the presence of magical or demonic monsters has provoked moral panics among religious conservatives. The game's emphasis on slaying monsters has also elicited negative commentary. As monsters have traditionally been defined by
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#17327877004363692-532: The game is based on the creature with the same name from Greek mythology . Like their counterparts, D&D's hecatoncheires were presented as giants with one-hundred arms and fifty heads in early editions. They also had the ability to throw a whole "barrage of boulders" at their enemies. In later editions their description was changed to "abominations that are formed from the fusion of one-hundred beings." In another version they were reduced in power, appearing as "a mere four-armed giant". They were considered among
3763-869: The game, when they were chaotic neutral natives of Limbo and thus not fiends. The cambions (whose name comes from a different kind of mythological, demonic creature) are simply half-fiends; hybrids of fiends and non-fiendish creatures, often humans or other humanoids. Cambions are typically created through fiends raping mortals or seducing them after shape-shifting , although some of the most depraved beings actually participate willingly. Those cambions that actually survive birth typically look like grotesque, hellish variants of their mortal progenitors, having wings, claws, fangs and often many other features that reveal their fiendish origins. Cambions are usually outcast, being feared and hated in mortal societies for their fiendish origins and being derided by pure-blooded fiends for their impure heritage. A variant of cambion called durzagon
3834-569: The inspiration for others includes mythology , medieval bestiaries , science-fiction , fantasy literature , and film . Mauricio Rangel Jiménez goes so far to say that a basic knowledge of mythology, religion and fantasy is required to keep pace with the game, although the "creatures were unbound by time or place" of their original sources and co-creator Gary Gygax "made them coexist in a single aggregate world". With regard to pre-modern sources, scholar Laurent Di Filippo remarked that game creators often do not rely directly on original texts. Rather
3905-467: The kythons matured, they took on varied forms. None of them were loyal to the fiends that created them. Because kythons originated on the Material Plane instead of the Abyss (or another lower plane), they are also called earth-bound demons. Kythons are only interested in eating and breeding. They have spread rapidly across the Material Plane . The current hierarchy of kythons, from the weakest to
3976-481: The length of most monster descriptions, and featuring illustrations for most of the monsters. The book contains a treasure chart and an index of major listings. The Fiend Folio: Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign was the second monster book for the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, published in 1981. The Fiend Folio consisted mostly of monsters submitted to White Dwarf ' s "Fiend Factory" column. The monsters in this book are presented in
4047-531: The material undergoes "cultural processes of transmission which go from medieval sources to the productions of contemporary cultural industries [...]. These transformations may be the result of translations or adaptations. This process of continuous evolution which involves both permanence and change is called "work on myth [Arbeit am Mythos]" by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg ." Because of their broad, inclusive background, D&D monsters have been called
4118-523: The number of " experience points " they award when killed, the game has been said to promote a "sociopathic" violence where the dungeon master "merely referees one imagined slaughter after another." Nicholas J. Mizer, in contrast, suggested that experience through combat was an in-game variation on Thorstein Veblen 's theory that application of the "predatory spirit" of humans to warfare could lead to high standing in society. Some female monsters, such as
4189-469: The same format as those in the previous Monster Manual work, and most featured illustrations of the monsters Monster Manual II was the third and final monster book for the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons , published in 1983, and has the largest page count of the three. As with the Monster Manual , this book was written primarily by Gary Gygax . This book contains a number of monsters that previously appeared in limited circulation and
4260-472: The second edition of the game. When the creatures were reintroduced after a few year in the Monstrous Compendium supplement MC8: The Outer Planes , the terms "baatezu", "tanar'ri", "yugoloth", and "gehreleth" were introduced and were used exclusively in place of the terms "devil", "demon", "daemon", and "demodand", respectively, but without changing the creatures fundamentally. Following
4331-419: The source upon which he is "riffing" or even simply "cheerleading" in his critique of Tolkien-imitative fantasy. Despite his criticisms, Miéville has praised Tolkien for his contributions to fantasy, especially in a 2009 blog post where he gave five reasons why Tolkien was praiseworthy. He has cited Michael de Larrabeiti 's Borrible Trilogy as one of his biggest influences, and he wrote an introduction for
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#17327877004364402-449: The strongest is: broodlings, juveniles, adults, impalers, slaymasters, and slaughterkings. Eventually, with more time, kythons will grow into newer and more powerful forms. Kythons closely resemble xenomorphs . They were originally created for Monte Cook 's Ptolus campaign, based on some gaming miniatures he had bought, and were added by him to the Book of Vile Darkness absent the context of
4473-520: The tanar'ri; an absolute, all encompassing, and virtually eternal struggle. Trenton Webb of Arcane magazine wrote, "the fate of all the planes hangs on its outcome". The Blood War was thoroughly detailed in various books throughout the Planescape setting, particularly the 1996 boxed set Hellbound: The Blood War . The 4th edition of D&D's Manual of the Planes updated the Blood War into
4544-406: The tarrasque among the monsters rated upwards from 2nd to 3rd edition, and wishes good luck to the adventurers having the temerity to attack it. China Mi%C3%A9ville China Tom Miéville FRSL ( / m i ˈ eɪ v əl / mee- AY -vəl , born 6 September 1972 ) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic . He often describes his work as " weird fiction ", and
4615-500: The term "yugoloth" for the same creatures. Fiends were considered among the "standard repertoire of 'Monsters'" in the game by Fabian Perlini-Pfister. Black Gate reviewer Andrew Zimmerman Jones positively contrasted the extended description provided in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2018) as compared to earlier material: "It's easy to treat demons and devils as villains just there to be killed, but after reading this chapter [on
4686-569: The title Demon Lord . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demon_Lord&oldid=1246656321 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Demon lord (Dungeons %26 Dragons) While many "bizarre and grotesque creatures" are original creations of Dungeons & Dragons ,
4757-525: The trilogy's 2002 reissue (the introduction was eventually left out of the book, but appears on de Larrabeiti's website). Miéville has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and, until 13 March 2013, was also a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP, UK). He stood unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 2001 general election as
4828-514: The work himself, having included and expanded most of the monsters from the previous D&D supplements. Also included are monsters originally printed in The Strategic Review , as well as some originally found in early issues of The Dragon and other early game materials. This book expanded on the original monster format by including the stat lines on the same page as the monsters' descriptions and introducing more stats, expanding
4899-419: Was a translator, writer and teacher, and the daughter of Leo Claude Vaux Miéville, whose wife Youla (née Harrison) was granddaughter of Edward Littleton, 4th Baron Hatherton . His parents chose his first name, China, from a dictionary, looking for a beautiful name. By virtue of his mother's nationality, Miéville holds US citizenship in addition to British citizenship. In 1982 his mother married Paul Lightfoot,
4970-496: Was founded to represent", stated that Left Unity would be launched at a "founding conference" in London on 30 November 2013 and would provide, as an "alternative" to Labour, "a party that is socialist, environmentalist, feminist and opposed to all forms of discrimination". In 2014, together with Richard Seymour and others, Miéville quit the International Socialist Network , a Left Unity faction, over
5041-711: Was published in the UK in 2005 by Brill in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by Haymarket Books . Miéville's works all describe fantastical or supernatural worlds or scenarios. Miéville has said he plans to write a novel in every genre. To this end, he has "constructed an oeuvre" that ranges from classic American Western (in Iron Council ) to sea-quest (in The Scar and Railsea ) to detective noir (in The City &
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