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The Fluffy Folio (Tabletop Game)
The Fluffy Folio is a project by Michael Habiger to create content for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Differentiating it from most homebrew monster projects, most of the featured creatures are Tiny in size and often geared towards non-combat scenarios. Throughout the years, the content has increased its purview to items and potions based on the critters involved, Patreon-exclusive Huge variants of previously designed creatures, and collaboration content with many other homebrew creators.

The official site for the project can be found here, and has links to the social media websites the project can be also found on.


The Fluffy Folio contains examples of:

  • Abstract Eater:
    • The Snifflewhiff (and its variants) eats lies, leaving the liar mute for a moment.
    • The Chromunculus is able to absorb color, leaving the area around it in shades of grey.
    • The Die of Torment is a living, fiendish six-sided die that causes different chaotic effects depending on which side it lands.
  • Action Bomb: The Waltzling is a demon with a love of acrobatics and elaborate dance, and a constitution that causes it to explode and covering everything around it in burning bodily fluids if it so much as falls prone.
  • Adorable Abomination: The general style of the project means that a lot of abberations, D&D's Eldritch Abomination category, are rather cute. For example, the Blobblehop is small and stubby enough to bring to mind a hamster more than any denizens of R'leyh.
  • All Witches Have Cats: The Bog-Bonbon Hag has the ability to turn people into Copycats, and one can be seen beside the hag in the artwork.
  • Animate Body Parts: The -bold creatures are undead examples of this trope, all being creatures animated from small body parts with the ability to attach to and give benefits to a selected creature.
  • Animate Inanimate Object:
    • The Chromunculus looks like a potion that grew arms and legs.
    • The Boggy Bottle is a talking potion. Talking with it is the only way to figure out what drinking it will do, and there's no guarantee that the bottle will be honest.
  • Banana Peel: The Bananshee is one that's turned into an evil undead creature. Naturally, one of its abilities is to make those that get too close fall prone.
  • Black Eyes of Evil: One of the first signs that the Bloody Berry is not as cute as it looks is that its Black Bead Eyes are completely black without any shine, and appear to be leaking some sort of fluid.
  • Blob Monster: The project introduces plenty more oozes to the game, such as the treasure-filled Loot Ooze and the animal shaped Gooze and Snooze.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality:
    • The fungoids are stated to have an alien perception of morality, and that they follow their own rules instead of the conventional split between good and evil. Interestingly, their statblocks show them as Unaligned instead of the usual Neutral used for characters of this type.
    • An Undersnout by its lonesome tends to attach itself to whatever faction is the largest, but its team-switching seems to be from naivety than actual treachery.
  • Bee Afraid: The Nogbees make their hives in skulls, and if none are available, the Queen is able to teleport into the skull of a creature that is still alive.
  • Briffits and Squeans: The Boozle is named after the Bloom County term for cartoony drunk bubbles, and resembles it by being a floating, bubble-like ooze that released an intoxicating gas when popped.
  • Cats Are Mean: While most of the cat-based creatures aren't malevolent, the Copycat is a Chaotic Evil fiend that absorbs other creatures to gain their abilities.
  • Cats Have Nine Lives: An optional rule for the Cat Venturer allows it to have extra lives, returning in a couple days if killed while still having lives left.
  • Classical Chimera: The Chiminimera is a pint-sized version that's a hybrid between mouse, snake, mantis, and scorpion. It's just as vicious as its larger counterpart (though limited by size), and it' noted that evil spellcasters often take an interest in it.
  • Clever Crows: The Hawking Raven is a corvidlike fey that's able to speak in every language at once, and is capable of hiding messages within said communication.
  • Creepy Hairless Animal: The Awakened Vulpecula is hairless, which helps to show just how unusual and unnatural it is for the creature to be awake.
  • Cuteness Overload: Exploited by the Vamsters, which are so round and fluffy that a person may ignore that fact that they are being drained of blood.
  • Cyclops: As its name implies, the Icyclops is an arctic (and miniature) variation of the regular cyclops. It's just as aggressive, regarding the moon as a deity they strive to worship through bloodshed, and they get even more chaotic in the likely chance they get blinded.
  • Death by Materialism: Invoked by the Gold-Tipped Ostracod, which has a coin-shaped protrusion to lure people into the range of its weakening poison.
  • Dark Is Not Evil:
    • The -bold line of creatures are all undead body parts, but none of them are Evil in alignment, and they provide benefits when attached to another creature.
    • Despite its intimidating name and bizarre appearance, the Deadleaf is Good in alignments and can act as a shield for an ally.
    • While living deep in the ocean and regularly using the undead, the Shelligans are Lawful Neutral and view undeath as being a natural part of the cycle of life.
  • Deal with the Devil:
    • The Quill Devil and the Ink Spawn are a pair of monsters that appear to compete for making deals with those close to death. They both give advantage on death saving throws, and the cost depends on the benefactor: the Quill Devil drain's the recipient's maximum health, while the Ink Spawn drives the recipient mad.
    • The Eye Catcher takes creatures' eyes in exchange for giving them Proficiency in a skill.
  • Eye Scream: The Eye Catcher can grant someone experience in a skill at the cost of removing one of the recipient's eyes.
  • Faceless Eye: The Eye Catcher is a whole swarm of disembodied eyes.
  • The Fair Folk: The Vinefang Faerie takes on a kindly guise to lure in unknowing adventurers to feed to carnivorous plants.
  • Fish People: The Sneering Sludge Fish is one that seems to just be on the boundary between fish and humanoid, having arms and legs that are only slightly different than the fins they evolved from. This allows it to move easily while prone, at the cost of having trouble holding onto things.
  • Foil: The Fuzz Buzz and the Bloody Berry are said to come from the same magics, and have a similarly cartoony appearance, but manifest opposite traits: the former is pure good, and the latter is pure evil.
  • Foul Waterfowl:
    • Evidently, the most destructive shape imaginable to a piece of ooze infused with conscious thinking is a goose. The resulting Gooze is very much a threat despite its absurdity, as being CR 8 means that its intended to be able to take on an experienced party of adventurers.
    • The Great Goose is at least the size of a person, has a rather dinosaur-like face, and the race local to its environment worships it as a symbol of ferocity.
  • Fun Size: The main theme of the project is making monsters that are only Tiny in size, which makes even the more malevolent or creepy ones rather cute in their own way.
  • Ghostly Animals:
    • Flabberghasts are ghostly cats. They mostly act as they did in life, but alongside the usual ghostly abilities are able to make people lose their voice.
    • Haunted Dogs are the residual spirits of dogs that experienced tragedy or agony. This leaves them acting much like a violent and restless ghost, only being able to be pacified if shown the affection they didn't get in life.
  • Giver of Lame Names: Whenever Candle-Care is mentioned in a monster's description, it usually comes with dubiety at his names for various creatures, which tend to be simple puns (Vamster, Herbat), or very plain (Brain Shark).
  • Hive Mind: The Bloodroaches are stated to share a single mind.
  • Human Popsicle: The Cyro-Bot is made for this use, its head mostly consisting of a dome that can preserve an object in cyrostasis... though its size means that most living creatures wouldn't be able to make much use of it for surviving to the future.
  • Improvised Golem: The Armed Ornament looks to be one of these, being pieced together from bits of Christmas decor and having fragile weapons.
  • Killer Rabbit:
    • The Bloody Berry looks like a tiny living tomato. It's pure evil, and the fact that its CR is 2 means it would likely able to kill your average person in a fight.
    • The Wurms as a whole are rather cute snakelike creatures, but their shared trait is a debilitating poison.
  • The Krampus: The Crampler evokes a pint-sized Krampus, having a similar name, being a fiend that threatens villages in cold environments, and being able to turn objects into coal.
  • Lilliputian Warriors: The Thumbstalls may be tiny in size, but they have a functioning military force of knights and sharpshooters.
  • Living Drawing: The Headfooter is a drawing-borne aberration based on the drawing stage of the same name. It's able to pretend to be a inanimate drawing, and can expand this ability to allied creatures.
  • Living Dream: The Figments are the projections of the ever-sleeping Vulpecula, appearing similar to their normal self but made of various elemental materials. They have the ability to bond to a creature, slightly increasing their output of a certain damage type.
  • Living Dust Bunnies: The Disgust Bunny is an evil monster mutated from clumps of dust and scraps in the shape of a rabbit, that increasingly grows the longer it stays in a grimy environment.
  • Living Toys: The Yarnling is a living doll that is able to mimic other small creatures, in the goal of experiencing or observing emotions. Sadly, they all have a curse that causes ones that stay in one form for too long to turn into the Marble-Eye, another living doll that causes damage to everything around it.
  • Mole Men: The Undersnouts are a race of tiny humanoids with mole-like faces that live in cities underground.
  • Multiple Head Case: The Doppledo has two heads. One is wise, helpful, and able to make healing treats through use of goodberry... and the other's a feral, aggressive monster that attacks everyone around it.
  • Mushroom Man:
    • The Ashcap is a pintsized version, being a small brown mushroom critter with limbs and a face. It's rather cute, but in groups acts much like a school of hungry piranha with necrotic spores.
    • The fungoids are a race of humanoid fungi characterized by their ability to form between several different forms (a Jack of All Trades, Mighty Glacier, and Fragile Speedster) if the need arises.
  • My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: The Corkscrew owl is able to easily translate between languages... but doesn't always get the meaning correct, leading to plenty of misunderstandings.
  • Nightmare Face: The Spirit of the False Fae has a wide mouth with disturbingly human teeth, and black and red eyes that stare in opposite directions.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: The Bestest Bunny evokes this, making itself visible to only one creature at a time and having an appearance that looks like it would come from a demented child's imagination.
  • Oculothorax: The Eye-Stinger looks like a clump of brown hair with a single large eye. It can defend itself through extending its hair into sharp spikes, and being able to do psychic damage to those who meet its gaze.
  • Odd Friendship: The Ambervein Sapling (a small living plant with a healing aura) and the Marble-Eye (a living plush that drains the life energy from those around it) are noted to enjoy each other's presence, as the powers of the former counteract the curse of the latter.
  • Omniglot:
    • The Corkscrew Owl is able to translate between languages... if not perfectly.
    • The Hawking Raven's ability of note is somehow being able to speak every language at once.
    • The Critter Glasses can provide the ability to read any language, as long as the text involved is about tiny creatures.
  • Our Genies Are Different: Like its home game, the Fluffy Folio adds several elemental monsters called genies:
    • The Dream Genie looks like mass of purple bubbles with limbs and a single eye. While said in-universe to have divinatory abilities, its only fortune-telling spell is the 1st-level augury, and the their actual main trait is being a race of Cloudcuckoolanders.
    • The Spark Genie resembles a yellow bird-like humanoid whose body trails into lightning. They're good performers and have some useful magic powers, but are erratic in personality and prone to mood swings.
    • The Wild Genie resembles a a humanoid made out of plant parts with a flower-like head. They have the ability to form plants from nothing, and to speak with flora and fauna. The latter means one has to be careful about what they say around the genie, as they are also major gossips.
    • The Memory Genie looks like a female humanoid formed out of some strange grey material. They are hyper-empaths, able to not just read but also understand the emotions in a mind. However, they aren't always able to handle these strong emotions themselves.
  • Our Werebeasts Are Different: The Rolywere is a pillbug in its base form and a pillbug-like humanoid in its were-form. According to its flavortext, it is born from secrets and seeks to imbue them into objects.
  • The Owl-Knowing One: The Corkscrew Owl is capable of translating between any two languages... if not always correctly.
  • Oxymoronic Being: The Molehill Giant is a giant that is Tiny in size.
  • Planimal:
    • The Findal is a fey being that looks like a lizard with leaves growing from its head and tail.
    • Similarly, the Fungus-Furred Flounder Ferret has plumes of lichen growing from its back, and is green-tinted overall.
    • The Herbat is a grass-colored batlike fey that is able to grow plants from its back.
    • The Mushroom-Mounted Mop Slug is a fungal variation, being a sluglike fey that has mushrooms growing from its back.
    • The Thumbstalls have access to small (though giant compared to the Thumbstalls themselves) living plants that look like beetroots with a quadruped's legs and a face.
  • Plant Person:
    • The Leek Lich is exactly how it sounds: a leek that has turned into an evil spellcaster, sprouting legs and the white base of the leek gaining a skull-life face.
    • The Lemon Aider is a lemon that's grown limbs and acts as a healer.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: The Pumpkling is armed with two large (for its size) knives, and wants nothing more than to sink them into another creature.
  • Pumpkin Person: The Pumpkling, as its name implies, is a humanoid plant creature with a pumpkin for a head.
  • Pun-Based Creature:
    • The Beatle in a insect known for its loud, rhythmic vocalizations.
    • The Caterpillar looks like a cat with an elongated body and six stubby legs.
    • The Snooze combines the word "snake", "ooze", and "snooze" into a snake-shaped slime monster that than cause people to fall asleep.
    • The Lemon Aider is a living lemon that is also a healer.
    • The Icebaerg is a polar bear so large as to almost be a part of the landscape when sleeping.
    • The Book Wurm and Gummy Wurm are two Wurms that are living puns, the former resembling paper and the latter resembling candy.
  • Raising the Steaks: The Shambling looks to be a starfish and scallop reanimated into one being.
  • Running on All Fours: While most of the Thumbstalls are normal in their locomotion, the Thumbstall Brute runs on all fours as part of embracing a more chaotic form of battle.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: A reoccurring archetype is a series of tiny humanoid creatures whose names consist of "(Rhyming Word) Knight". This includes the Mite Knight, Flight Knight, Sight Knight, and Blight Knight.
  • Sleepyhead:
    • The Vulpecula is a celestial characterized by almost always being asleep, and being able to project its dreams into the nearby environment.
    • The Sleepy Stuff may be the most wizardly bear you'll ever see, but has trouble staying awake for even a few seconds.
  • Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: The Caramel Candy Slug's statblock is geared towards getting creatures to eat it. This is because it lives in symbiosis with the Tidal Crab, luring creatures toward the latter through its deliciousness and feeding on the scraps of the resulting casualties.
  • Token Heroic Orc: The Friend Fiend is this for demons, being a Good member of a type of creature that is usually Always Chaotic Evil.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Book of Butterflies and Mince is made out of partially rotted flesh, and if you die while attuned to it at its highest stage, you will be turned into a heartbold.
  • Tragic Monster:
    • The Haunted Dogs may often be hyperaggressive, but its due to most of them being the ghosts of dogs who died in agony, leaving their spirits traumatized from abuse.
    • Marble-Eyes have an aura that slowly damages anything in their vicinity, but they're the end result of a creature that just wanted to mimic the emotions of others.
  • Virtuous Bees:
    • The Fuzz Buzz is a swarm of tiny fey bees that are pretty much made of goodness, resulting in them pretty much being fluffy bee-striped blobs that like to cuddle.
    • The Therabee, as its name implies, wants nothing more to help others feel better. In its statblock, this translates to it being able to give bonuses to creatures it shared a long rest with.
  • Wicked Witch: The project adds some more monsters to the Hags of D&D:
    • The Bog-Bonbon Hag is able to turn people into Copycats, and always has a bag of cursed sweets that bring ruin to those that eat them.
    • The Pumpkin hag often pretends to be a good fairy in opposition to another hag, but actually uses this guide to corrupt people's crops into undead monsters.
    • Tree Stump Hags are born from Witch Trees that form in corrupted forests. They live in the deepest, rotting parts of nature, preying on those that get lost.
    • The Baby Yagas are a whole swarm of what looks like toddler hags, though their true origin is unknown. Interestingly enough, they are Chaotic Neutral instead of the usual Evil.
    • Averted with the Bog Hag, which aren't usually malevolent (and are also protectors of their environment) despite being in the Hag family.

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