Any interest in a Monster Compendium?

[amethal]

I like the environment books as they are.

If the PCs are in a desert, I bring Sandstorm to the session anyway. If they aren't, why would I need the desert monsters anyway?

A 3.5 update of Monsters of Faerun, MM2 and Fiend Folio would be nice but how are they going to get all that into one book?

 

[NiTessine]

My suggestion would be to compile Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn and as many monsters from the early 3.0 issues of Dragon and Dungeon that haven't been reprinted elsewhere into a big hardcover. Maybe throw in a little something from Oriental Adventures, Ghostwalk and the other 3.0 FR books as well. Conversion to 3.5, same format as MM4, and we've got something really useful.

 

[Shade]

My suggestion would be to compile Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn and as many monsters from the early 3.0 issues of Dragon and Dungeon that haven't been reprinted elsewhere into a big hardcover. Maybe throw in a little something from Oriental Adventures, Ghostwalk and the other 3.0 FR books as well. Conversion to 3.5,

I'm so on-board with this idea...

same format as MM4, and we've got something really useful.

...you just lost me.

I don't think I need chitine totemist 1 or the abishai retconned into dragonspawn.

 

[demiurge1138]

I don't think I need chitine totemist 1

You're right. CE soulborn would be much more appropriate

or the abishai retconned into dragonspawn.

Well, if they did that, I'd be infuriated like a really furious thing. Now, a paragraph detailing how they interact with their creator's new favored children? I'm seeing "bitter resentment". That'd be interesting.

Demiurge out.

 

[Tuzenbach]

This idea reminds me of what TSR started doing in the waning years of 2nd Edition with the Monstrous Compendium Annuals. I really liked those, so I'd be all for a similar series for 3E.

These are all on my shelves & are very useful & convenient.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I, for one, would love to see the Monster Annuals make a comeback. I wouldn't care if it was in softback, I'd buy 'em anyway!

 

[BOZ]

i wish WotC would pay me enough that i could quit my job, and then just make monster books full of conversions until i run out or get sick of it.

 

[RavinRay]

So what's a good format for an MC? Sort by type (all dragons in one chapter, all elementals in a second, etc.) And should it include monsters in the SRD but not in the Monster Manual (from the Expanded Psionics Handbook and Epic Level Handbook)?

 

[Shade]

So what's a good format for an MC? Sort by type (all dragons in one chapter, all elementals in a second, etc.) And should it include monsters in the SRD but not in the Monster Manual (from the Expanded Psionics Handbook and Epic Level Handbook)?

If it were up to me, it would be organized alphabetically, with templates in an appendix so they are easy to locate. Other appendices would contain thorough, and accurate, monsters by CR, by type, and by environment. All creatures of a given "grouping" would be together...in other words, no chain golem away from all the other golems like in the MMII, all the swarms would be listed as "Swarm, <swarm name>", etc.

I wouldn't want to see the XPsiHB and ELH monsters in there, as they are already freely available in the SRD. I'd rather see them focus on Dragon, Dungeon, modules, splatbooks, and campaign-specific books, in that order.

 

[Zaukrie]

If they do one, which I would like, I'd like the pictures. Or, the pictures need to be on-line. I don't own every book out there, and if they are going to put monsters out they should have pictures.

I hate the new monsters they put on-line sometimes that don't have pictures. Can you tell I really need/like pictures?