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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9264138" data-attributes="member: 8461">If we're talking about bestiaries, I want to go ahead and take a moment to recommend the <a href="https://drivethrurpg.com/product/27813/bestiary-malfearous?affiliate_id=820" target="_blank">Bestiary Malfearous</a> (affiliate link) and its sister product, the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/8706825/Bestiary-Nefarious-Monsters-of-the-East" target="_blank">Bestiary Nefarious</a> (yes, that one is a Scribd link, but it's okay; our own [USER=52734]@Stormonu[/USER] is the author, and he uploaded it to Scribd <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-3-5-monster-books.273597/post-5124254" target="_blank">himself</a>).I only recently picked these up (not having known that the second existed, and the price point on the first, along with no preview, giving me pause) and I honestly wish I'd gotten them years ago. The sheer breadth of monsters in these books is astonishing, and they cover a lot of niches that seem obvious in hindsight, but seem to be overlooked in a lot of monster books. Where else will you find entries for different varieties of insect-people, which are also coded as playable PC races? Elemental lords who can actually cast spells as elementalists (because you'd think that a being of fire would actually be able to command fire magic, right?), an entirely new type of evil outsiders with over a half-dozen entries of various CRs, etc. It's a lot of great content, and I found the books very inspiring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9264138, member: 8461"] If we're talking about bestiaries, I want to go ahead and take a moment to recommend the [url=https://drivethrurpg.com/product/27813/bestiary-malfearous?affiliate_id=820][i]Bestiary Malfearous[/i][/url] (affiliate link) and its sister product, the [url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/8706825/Bestiary-Nefarious-Monsters-of-the-East][i]Bestiary Nefarious[/i][/url] (yes, that one is a Scribd link, but it's okay; our own [USER=52734]@Stormonu[/USER] is the author, and he uploaded it to Scribd [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/best-3-5-monster-books.273597/post-5124254]himself[/url]). I only recently picked these up (not having known that the second existed, and the price point on the first, along with no preview, giving me pause) and I honestly wish I'd gotten them years ago. The sheer breadth of monsters in these books is astonishing, and they cover a lot of niches that seem obvious in hindsight, but seem to be overlooked in a lot of monster books. Where else will you find entries for different varieties of insect-people, which are also coded as playable PC races? Elemental lords who can actually cast spells as elementalists (because you'd think that a being of fire would actually be able to command fire magic, right?), an entirely new type of evil outsiders with over a half-dozen entries of various CRs, etc. It's a lot of great content, and I found the books very inspiring. [/QUOTE]

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