Elder Evils is an official supplement for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. This book presents alien, monstrous evils and is designed as a way of providing game masters a means of ending a current campaign.

Contents

It includes new content for epic level characters, in the form of extremely powerful, alien monstrosities intent on destroying the world. It is designed as a way of providing game masters a means of ending a current campaign. The book presents nine “Elder Evils”:

Publication history

Elder Evils was authored by Robert J. Schwalb, with Jason Bulmahn, Greg Gorden, James Jacobs, Rhiannon Louve, Michael McArtor, and Anthony Pryor, and published by Wizards of the Coast in December 2007. The cover artist is Michael Komarck, with interior art by Miguel Coimbra, Daarken, Wayne England, Ralph Horsley, Izzy, Howard Lyon, Michael Phillippi, Skan Srisuwan, Francis Tsai, Franz Vohwinkel, Eva Widermann, and James Zhang.

Other Elder Evils

A 10th Elder Evil, called Shothragot is presented in Dragon #362. It serves the god Tharizdun. The Elder Evil Zurguth, the Feasting Vast, was also in introduced in Dragon issue #358, which describes his accidental creation of the Kaorti. The D&D book Lords of Madness, published previously (in 2005), also presented Elder Evils (page 27). The five described in that book are all greatly respected by the aboleth. They are provided with the following names:

Reception

Elder Evils received the silver ENnie Award for Best Monster/Adversary.

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