4E Monster Manual II: will you?

[Appleseeth]

Well, if this book is anywhere near the quality of the first one, in my opinion, it will be a must buy. The new MM, and 4e in general make encounter building so easy.

 

[mattdm]

I voted the first option, though I will not actually by every WotC book, and certainly not "no matter what". Just a lot of them. I am not sure if I am still in for settings after Eberron, for example. But I think the "Core Books" will always be on my list...

This. Except I voted "other".

 

[Vanuslux]

I'll definitely get it...I'm a sucker for monster books.

 

[ScottS]

a) I liked the LA/ECL/Savage Species mechanics in 3e
b) I think stripping away detailed backstories, and equating each creature with a minimal set of 2-3 'schtick' abilites, makes for a boring read and tending-towards-boring play

Therefore c) I won't be buying any more 4e monster books (and I voted 'other' in the poll)

 

[Ander00]

Meh. I'll decide after I've thumbed through the copy of the guy in our group who'd vote "Absolutely. I plan to purchase all of WotC's 4E books no matter what".


cheers

 

[Dracomortis]

I'll probably get it, if for no other reason than to grab a few new ideas and to keep up-to-date on what has and hasn't been converted to 4e yet. I enjoy designing things for 4e (especially monsters) even though I haven't played it since the first three or four months after it came out. Our group has mostly switched over to Star Wars Saga Edition and World of Darkness, so when we do break for D&D I try to push for a 3.5 campaign, since most of our group prefers playing with that ruleset.

I'm rather torn about the artwork, though. Overall the quality is much better than early 3.5e and I feel like I'm actually looking through an illustrated bestiary, rather than just some book with a bunch of pencil and ink sketches by often mediocre artists (no offense intended to any 3.5e artists - there was some really good artwork out there, especially towards the end, but most of it just wasn't to my tastes). On the other hand, as a few others have already mentioned, too many of the monsters have been reduced to Generic Ugly Beasty #X. I would like to see a lot more variety in the future - hopefully as they begin statting up some of the more obscure and bizarre creatures we'll see a move in the right direction.

Another thing I'm not too keen about is the the rewritting of the planes, but that is neither here nor there and is easily fixed by adding in a few new creature origins.

 

[chaotix42]

('~' ) ( '~')

Rise from your grave!

Still getting it, btw.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Unfortunately, I'm not sold on 4E, even if I do find Demogorgon's efforts at remodeling himself after Beast Man to be amusing.

 

[fanboy2000]

Rust Monster!

 

[Ktulu]

The poll says it best; those two-headed orange monkey demons do, in fact, rule.