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Book of Fiends, Volume One: Legions of Hell

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ137701829 ↗
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Book of Fiends, Volume One: Legions of Hell is a 2001 supplement for d20 System role-playing games published by Green Ronin Publishing.

Contents

Book of Fiends, Volume One: Legions of Hell is a supplement in which devils are detailed.

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline noted that "In 2001 Green Ronin expanded beyond their early Freeport adventures and went into the business that the more successful d20 publishers were already in: publishing sourcebooks and other gaming material.

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This entry incorporates text from “Book of Fiends, Volume One: Legions of Hell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.