#fiend factory

The loculi, or "tail-killers," answering the age-old question "what if an intelligent psionic 6-legged ankylosaurus had a sword?" (from Eric Hall's "Fiend Factory entry "The Loculi," a new creature for AD&D in White Dwarf 36, December 1982)

Time for the first Codex Compliant of 2020! We're covering Fiend Factory, the White Dwarf column full of bizarre monsters for D&D!

Merry Christmas 1982 from Citadel Miniatures, who had a reciprocal relationship with Ral Partha in the US, with each distributing some of the other’s products in the early 1980s.  (White Dwarf 36, GW, December 1982)  The “Special Offer!” in the 3rd column mentions Military Modelling magazine, suggesting this ad originally was formatted for publication there and reprinted without correction here -- though the line at the very bottom of the page got it right.

Variant “Imps” by Martin Stollery for AD&D, entry in Fiend Factory column, White Dwarf 13, June/July 1979 (Polly Wilson illustration).  This issue introduced the fire, smoke, steam, and molten imps, all originating from the lower planes with the devils and demons.  Two years later they became the mephits in the Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981), with a similar fiendish origin, and only later were identified as elementals from the elemental planes.

The original appearance of the volt for OD&D by Jonathan Jones, Polly Wilson illustration, “The Fiend Factory” column, White Dwarf 7, June/July 1978

Shadow demons are more powerful in the dark (first appearance for D&D in White Dwarf 13, June/July 1979, by Neville White with Polly Wilson illustration)

George RR Martin’s 1977 novel Dying of the Light mentioned an alien race called Githyanki.  Charlie Stross borrowed that name for a race of psionic Astral Plane travelers in his D&D campaign, later published in White Dwarf’s “Fiend Factory” and the AD&D Fiend Folio.