Who doesn’t love a creature book?  One of my favorite things to do with various tabletop RPGs is read through their creature books or chapters on monsters.  I love the creativity, the lore, the weird ideas.  Ford’s Faeries is a cool little collection of weird monsters based on the illustrations of Henry Justice Ford.  It was assembled by Eric Nieudan from various creators on the, now defunct but beloved in some circles, Google + message boards.  Those same boards gave rise to the Gongfarmer’s Almanac series, as well.

There are a little over fifty monsters, each on a two page spread.  The first page is an illustration from Henry Justice Ford.  The second page features a name, description, and stat-block intended for your various D&D and D&D adjacent, OSR type games.  A few illustrations are used more than once, for different critters.

Some highlights are the magic portal called the Arch of Snakes, the Bugul Noz, a spooky looking but potentially helpful…spirit?, and the Moon-Headed Giant, which is just wonderfully strange.

If you’re looking to add some very odd encounters to your game, things with a vaguely fairy tale vibe, and very much not the typical things you find in various D&D spin-offs, this is worth checking out.  Many of these are the kinds of creatures you imagine existing in the tales of the Arabian Nights or the Brothers Grimm or holdovers from the mythologies of the ancient world.  They’re almost alien, with a sense of logic that feels just out of reach. I’d argue it’s the way fairies should feel.  Not something you can comfortably categorize or predict.  Groovy.

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