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Summary: 2nd Addition RULES!
Review: It's true, and this particular book is an excellant rendition of just how good 2nd edition is. The book gives huge amounts of information on monsters (which is an excellant aid to DMs) and the pictures are great. I highly recommend it for all DMs who have a nostalgia for 2nd Edition, which is all I play.
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Summary: This is a great book.
Review: Let me tell you one thing. without this book, you can't really play D&D. This book lists all the monsters you'll ever need to fight, and a lot more you can scare your party members with.
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Summary: Excelent, but not accurate enough.
Review: Not only is the book well thought out, but illustrative of the historical references it attempts to follow. Even more benificial is the accuracy with which it follows the accepted "common" understanding of mythology.
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Summary: Might I remind the Younger players...
Review: Players and DM's alike, I have been playing role playing games since Tunnels and Trolls came out in the 70's. I used the 3-ring binder for years and the bottom line is that TSR needed a hardcover, bound Monster Book in order to promote the game they developed and sell. How many times would you need to re-issue the 3-ring sheets containing the dragons and the orcs...come on..this book puts all the basics in one book so you can build on it. The annuals come out and if i am not mistaken you can still buy three ring binders and place all the ghouls you want from the boxed sets in there...However i would not think of playing without this book eventhough i can rattle off creatures stats by heart...it is a playing must and well worth the money!
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Summary: Over all the book was very helpful and comprehensive
Review: The manual prtrays everything any Dm will ever need to put togther a detailed campaign. The only real problem is that some of the descriptions try to dicttate where a certain crearure should be, and how it should be used. I know that the Dm can change anything, but for novice DM,s it may seem like they must follow these rules. Depsite that the book provided me with a wealth of information, it was quite useful. I highly recommend it. Especially if you do not have the time to create your own beings, but creating your own can be far more rewarding.
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Summary: There are Advantages and Disadvantages
Review: The Monstous manual is a well organized book to get a monster if you need it in a hurry...but the prepared DM would prefer the 3 Ring binder of the old with monstrous compendium annuals in it...
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Summary: A great source of AD&D monsters
Review: The MONSTROUS MANUAL is a must for AD&D gamers. It is a listing of all the monsters you use most. DMs can have a lot of fun coming up with situations where these monsters are encountered (I should know, I'm a DM). If you are looking for a role-playing neccesity, this book is one. I don't see how someone can do without it in a campaign. Anyway, if you play AD&D, GET THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Has more monsters and races in it then eggs on MD's house!
Review: The monstrous manual is great to find any sort of unique creature with a full described ecology and forms of attacks. You can easily have a planned AD&D adventure without using the same creature twice. The full descriptions of each monster can give you creative ideas in your adventer if you are the DM. The only thing that puts a small downfall to the book is the pictures. Some are done by expert artists and give the monster a detailed colorful look while most pictures turn up to be cartoon drawings that make you think the monster looks puny to its elaborite descripson. Out of that the book is worth every pretty penny! So anyway as the great grandmaster mage Eddie O. says "You can't have a fun time without an orcish mage or reaper shooting Corp Por at your shiny armour."
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Summary: The dream of dungeoneering knaves. The bane of proofreaders.
Review: The Monstrous Manual is indeed monstrous. But it's not what's in it that's monstrous; it's the total lack of efficiency, regularity, development, and (in some cases) neatness that's truly horrendous.Where can I start? The monsters; many of the coolest (the Illithids and Beholders as points in case) have so little detail that a second supplement (unaffordable to us budgeted people) had to be written for them. Other monsters have tons of detail, but so much is extraneous that, if the useless junk were removed, the Monstrous Manual would be several dozen pages shorter. It gets worse; after reading this, I got the feeling that parts of the Monstrous Manual were typed by a dyslexic. THERE'S JUST NO STANDARD OF WRITING! The Monstrous Manual goes from just above okay to obscenely bad at speeds of around Mach 6. The Monstrous Manual has some basic stuff in it vital to AD&D. If you're DMing, and you have a dungeon to populate, get this: you'll need it. If you're a Gamemaster, and humans aren't the only life on your planet, get this: you'll want it. But don't be surprised when you discover the shifting quality of its work... or when it bites you out of sheer malevolence.
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Summary: Very Useful
Review: The Monstrous Manual is very good and useful. There are lot of monsters in it, And tables to help you determine what monster to send. There are drawings for almost every monster, Detail about its way and place of life and the culture of every monster. Most of the monsters are fine, but some can't be used, They might very strong, Very weak or very complicated. But, Even so, It is very good.
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