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Summary: Necessary Purchase for D&D fans
Review: A first-rate update, cut and compression of the Monstrous Compendium releases.
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Summary: Great Source!!
Review: All of you guys who want to play some more thrilling AD&D games but hesitate to start... buy this book and you don't need anything else! With more than 600 monsters illustrated and explained in detail, this book is the ultimate monster source for any DM in the world. It is also fun to read and skim through whenever you want to. Great book!
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Summary: Some of the BEST art and info I have EVER seen! DM's wannit!
Review: Amazing. That is ALL there is to say, except DM's (dungeon masters) shouldn't play a game without it!
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Summary: Fascintating insite on the Kind And Dangerous AD&D Monst.
Review: An interesting look on the other creatures of the AD&D world. The things that are said can make them deadly of and dangerous or kind and gentle. Stunningly writting and published in hardback this book with show you the vast wonders of AD&D.
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Summary: FANTASY QUEST HAVEN...this is THE book to own!
Review: Anybody who is really into or owns versions of the popular Dungeon Master(DM) of the Advanced Dundeons & Dragons (AD&D) Role-playing games should definitely make an investment into this book. Not only is it very detailed, and appropriately alphabetical, but lists complete data info on each monster through fantasy, mythology, or in some cases reality. I was much of a fan of fantasy games until I started a collection of Sony PlayStation games, and with the technology that can knock your socks off nowadays, the visuals in monster morphing are great. When you reading through chapters you may discover certain things about monsters you never knew before. For instance the different varieties of dragons; not just the most common green, but the red, black, white, and blue, and the book details their attack status and breathing weapon. Like sea monsters? There is also hydras and whales. Real die hard fantasy fans will have fun reading over the trolls, purple worms, cerberus, and scorpions. I seem to remember an older version of this book that also listed hornet wasps. Upon damage if a hornet gets its' wings burned off, the creature is not damaged, but is now flightless. If you love DUNGEONS and DRAGONS from old Odyssey games, witchcraft, bats, and warlocks are also listed. I found information on Golems (Frankenstein's Monster for instance is a Flesh Golem), Mummies, and Vampires informative. Did you know werewolves aren't the only lycanthropes. The book is rich with information on weretigers, wereboars, wererats, and even werebears. There are also weredragons, but they aren't listed. Definitely worth the investment, and I would highly recommend picking it up together with the ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: VOLUME 4 and the MONSTROUS COMPENDIUM ANNUAL. This will make your game playing trivia complete!
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Summary: FANTASY QUEST HAVEN...this is THE book to own!
Review: Anybody who is really into or owns versions of the popular Dungeon Master(DM) of the Advanced Dundeons & Dragons (AD&D) Role-playing games should definitely make an investment into this book. Not only is it very detailed, and appropriately alphabetical, but lists complete data info on each monster through fantasy, mythology, or in some cases reality. I was much of a fan of fantasy games until I started a collection of Sony PlayStation games, and with the technology that can knock your socks off nowadays, the visuals in monster morphing are great. When you reading through chapters you may discover certain things about monsters you never knew before. For instance the different varieties of dragons; not just the most common green, but the red, black, white, and blue, and the book details their attack status and breathing weapon. Like sea monsters? There is also hydras and whales. Real die hard fantasy fans will have fun reading over the trolls, purple worms, cerberus, and scorpions. I seem to remember an older version of this book that also listed hornet wasps. Upon damage if a hornet gets its' wings burned off, the creature is not damaged, but is now flightless. If you love DUNGEONS and DRAGONS from old Odyssey games, witchcraft, bats, and warlocks are also listed. I found information on Golems (Frankenstein's Monster for instance is a Flesh Golem), Mummies, and Vampires informative. Did you know werewolves aren't the only lycanthropes. The book is rich with information on weretigers, wereboars, wererats, and even werebears. There are also weredragons, but they aren't listed. Definitely worth the investment, and I would highly recommend picking it up together with the ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: VOLUME 4 and the MONSTROUS COMPENDIUM ANNUAL. This will make your game playing trivia complete!
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Summary: A very interesting book
Review: Bobby MacGregor (macgregor@earthlink.net)
This book has all you need to know about monsters and then some. I recommend it to a bored DM who needs a new idea. It's excellent for coming up with new quests and has detailed descriptions and pictures.
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Summary: The best of its breed
Review: DMs will find more monsters than they'll likely ever throw at their unsuspecting victims, er, the players, as well as instuctions on how to create their own. Even players will find some use for this book, such as magic resistance/immunities for wizards, undead Hit Dice for priests and paladins, etc. Far cheaper and easier to use than the compendiums.
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Summary: A critique on the three ring binder system
Review: I beg to differ with the the many reviews of this Manual downplaying the need of a book form over the three ring binder form. First as a very active GM, I found the old three ring binder to be quite cumbersome and awkwardly sized. Second, as for the easy of taking the pages in and out, one a good GM should still record most of the important info on the monster he is using in his adventure notes and not rely on having a dummy sheet setting there in front of him, and two they tend to come out really easy once you have had it for some time and all the holes tear through. I never cared for the three ring binder, I thought it was a good idea in principle when first introduced, but failed in practicle use through regular game play. Book format is just as easily accessible for info gathering, sturdier in construction, and much more portable in size. I give it a four out of five, it would have been a five but I feel that they could have done a bit better with some of the new artwork inside.
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Summary: The Best
Review: I don't play Dungeons and Dragons much, but I enjoy just reading it and thinking about creatures like the ones in this book. They give you very detailed and useful descriptions. Plus the drawings are great and in depth. All DM's or players need this book.
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