Hordes of the Abyss is Now Available

My newest book, Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss, is now available at bookstores, game stores, and on the Internet. This is my first hardcover release for Wizards of the Coast since 2003's Fiend Folio, and believe me when I tell you it was an absolute labor of love.

My co-authors on the book were James Jacobs and Ed Stark. My contribution is Chapter 5: Into the Abyss, an overview of D&D's Outer Plane of chaos and evil. The Abyss is home to the vilest demons in the multiverse, and it was a thrill to update their habitat in an official Dungeons & Dragons book.

I had previously tread upon this unhallowed ground, albeit unofficially, in the pages of Green Ronin's Armies of the Abyss, which was later compiled (with a bunch of stuff I didn't write) into the company's extremely popular Book of Fiends. Although the Green Ronin books are not official D&D, they are a hell of a lot of fun to read and are great additions to any Dungeon Master's library (if I do say so myself).

I'm interested to hear your reaction to my material in this book (much of the Internet chatter so far has focused on game statistics I didn't write), and will happily answer any of your questions about the book in the comments section of this post.