Flumph
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| Alignment | Lawful Good |
| Type | Aberration |
| Image | Wizards.com image |
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| First appearance | Fiend Folio |
The flumph is a monster found in the fictional world of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Flumphs are described as sentient, and are the only Lawful Good creatures in the original 1981 Fiend Folio.
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[edit] Physical description
Flumphs are depicted as similar in appearance to jellyfish. However they float in the air rather than water, and have eyes on stalks. Flumphs are said to be completely helpless if flipped on to their 'back'.
[edit] Publication history
Flumphs were first introduced in the Fiend Folio monster sourcebook for D&D 1st Edition,[1] and updated for D&D 2nd Edition rules in the Monstrous Compendium Annual Vol. 2,[2]. They appeared in the Open Game Licence (3rd Edition) book Tome of Horrors from Necromancer Games, then officially featured in the 3.5 edition adventure "Box of Flumph"[3] by Tim Hitchcock in Dungeon magazine #118.[4]
Since then, license-holders Wizards of the Coast have only used flumphs for comedic value. A 2006 April Fool's joke announced the release of miniatures for Modrons, flumphs, and similar creatures.[5] As part of a 2009 April Fools joke, 4th Edition stats for the Flumph were included in the Fool's Grove Dungeon Delve article.[6]
[edit] Flumphs in other media
Flumphs have been featured in the comic strip The Order of the Stick. A running joke is that one of a pair of flumphs accidentally serves to cushion the landing of falling characters.
[edit] Flumphs in other games
Flumphs appeared in Pathfinder Bestiary 3.
[edit] References
- ^ Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981)
- ^ Pickens, Jon, ed. Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (TSR, 1995)
- ^ "Box of Flumph – RPGNet RPG Game Index". http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=32502. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
- ^ Hitchcock, Tim. "Box of Flumph." Dungeon #118 (Paizo Publishing, Jan 2005)
- ^ Wizards of the Coast news, 1 April 2006
- ^ Dungeon #165 Dungeon Delve: Fool's Grove by Logan Bonner and Chris Sims
[edit] Additional reading
- Burlew, Richard. "The Order of the Stick: Dungeon Crawlin Fools" [1] 2007
- Richards, Johnathan M. "The Ecology of the Flumph." Dragon #246 (TSR, 1998).
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