Melan
Explorer
Zappo: go to the Necromancer Games Site and download the teaser. It has pictures for some creatures, including Lucifer, Giant Frogs, Forlarren, Flind and even the Flumph.
The Tome of Horrors is the Tome of Happiness!
jgbrowning
Hero
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Originally posted by roytheodd
This is the book the Monster Manual II should have been. If it had just a few stock humanoids (eg Orcs & Goblins) it would replace the 3rd Monster Manual on my shelf.
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And then Crothian said....
"That's pretty darn good praise."
Hell yah brother! This is the shiznit of monster books, IMHO. I haven't gone into my FLGS looked at something for less than 20 seconds and walked right out with it since I was 13.
This book is definitly what the MMII should have been.
joe b.
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Originally posted by roytheodd
This is the book the Monster Manual II should have been. If it had just a few stock humanoids (eg Orcs & Goblins) it would replace the 3rd Monster Manual on my shelf.
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And then Crothian said....
"That's pretty darn good praise."
Hell yah brother! This is the shiznit of monster books, IMHO. I haven't gone into my FLGS looked at something for less than 20 seconds and walked right out with it since I was 13.
This book is definitly what the MMII should have been.
joe b.
JoeGKushner
First Post
I'm going to sound like the odd duck out here but...
Let me start by saying that the book is indeed great, 5 star worthy but just barely 5 star.
Lot of the art is sub, especially in comparission to MMII.
Lot of the layout is sub. Whole page for Eye of the Deep with all that white space?
Lots of favorites from 1st ed still not updated. Mainly looks like it hit the MMII and FF.
And I know I've seen Cerebrus statted out in 1st ed but (and maybe I missed it) didn't see the original credit. Same thing with Lucifer who I know got statted out in Politics of Hell.
Great book but there were some touches that would've made it a solid five.
Let me start by saying that the book is indeed great, 5 star worthy but just barely 5 star.
Lot of the art is sub, especially in comparission to MMII.
Lot of the layout is sub. Whole page for Eye of the Deep with all that white space?
Lots of favorites from 1st ed still not updated. Mainly looks like it hit the MMII and FF.
And I know I've seen Cerebrus statted out in 1st ed but (and maybe I missed it) didn't see the original credit. Same thing with Lucifer who I know got statted out in Politics of Hell.
Great book but there were some touches that would've made it a solid five.
qstor
Adventurer
>That's cool. So, any thoughts on how it would fit into a non >fantasy genre game?
There was a thread on D&D monsters in a space/Dragonstar setting on the d20 system games area.
I think a lot of them could fit in a d20 Modern or Dragonstar game or even a Victorian "magical" setting ala Castle Faklenstein.
I highly recommend it as well as the reviwer mentioned on rpgshop.com if you buy one monster book at all apart from the MM buy this one!
Mike
There was a thread on D&D monsters in a space/Dragonstar setting on the d20 system games area.
I think a lot of them could fit in a d20 Modern or Dragonstar game or even a Victorian "magical" setting ala Castle Faklenstein.
I highly recommend it as well as the reviwer mentioned on rpgshop.com if you buy one monster book at all apart from the MM buy this one!
Mike
Quickbeam
Explorer
Ulrick said:
Now that's a ringing endorsement.
Somewhere, one of my gaming buddies is smiling. You see he buys damn near everything released for D&D, much of it junk we never use and he doesn't end up liking anyhow. But this will be a book he is proud to own evidently. Good for him...and for me when I cave in and buy it too
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green slime
First Post
Well, well, well.
FINALLY, the BoVD finally reaches these dark and distant shores. Along with Tome of Horrors and D20 Modern... and no Dragon or Dungeon magazines, and still no MMII!
Of course I had to purchase all three books, having been deprived of my consumer rights for so long.
After glancing through the Tome of Horrors, which took much longer than I expected due to its humungous size, I turned to BoVD...which somehow, just paled in comparision... I don't know how, but it was just too much ho-hum. Especially as I was eager for more ToH.
I did find some minor errors in the ToH in the little while I was perusing my copy: Prices for constructing at least one construct was missing. And some monsters I found to be... well different to how I would have them. And the art was very much hit and miss. Some of it was glorious (I really like the Banshee picture), while some others were hideous.
But on the whole, an excellent book, and one that shall definitely see use at my gaming table. Even more so than any other monster book except MM.
FINALLY, the BoVD finally reaches these dark and distant shores. Along with Tome of Horrors and D20 Modern... and no Dragon or Dungeon magazines, and still no MMII!
Of course I had to purchase all three books, having been deprived of my consumer rights for so long.
After glancing through the Tome of Horrors, which took much longer than I expected due to its humungous size, I turned to BoVD...which somehow, just paled in comparision... I don't know how, but it was just too much ho-hum. Especially as I was eager for more ToH.
I did find some minor errors in the ToH in the little while I was perusing my copy: Prices for constructing at least one construct was missing. And some monsters I found to be... well different to how I would have them. And the art was very much hit and miss. Some of it was glorious (I really like the Banshee picture), while some others were hideous.
But on the whole, an excellent book, and one that shall definitely see use at my gaming table. Even more so than any other monster book except MM.
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