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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khuxan" data-source="post: 2805840" data-attributes="member: 38801">I really liked the flavor in Monstrous Compendium: Planescape III (by the Monte Cook)... but the art was dreadful (for the most part - the Devourer is awesome) and it must have been hell trying to use any of the monsters in an actual game (the monster's abilities are strewn across the entire Combat section <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> ). On the other hand, 3E books just strike me as more disciplined: 'You'll get that much flavor, and that much mechanics, and that much good art... because MC<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> III's overdose of flavor blewn peoples minds in a good way, but the bizarre magic item creation methods we gave you in Volo's Guide to All Things Magical were flavorful in a boring waste-of-your-time kind of way'.Just the opinion of an avowed 3E advocate <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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