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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 2786107" data-attributes="member: 1465">Besides the original MM, I haven't bought any other monster book from Wizards', but I have GR's Armies of the Abyss and Legions of Hell, plus the Monsters of Rokugan.I've been tempted a couple of times to buy the MM2, but when I browse through it I really find only a bunch of monsters which inspire me. These generic books are IMHO a bit running out of ideas... I remember that I was truly appalled by the FF for example.One of our gamers (and DM) has many WotC books and tried to use them, but at the end the weird monsters with no true background are used in one encounter, and disappear without leaving a mark. If they have at least some otherwise unavailable abilities, they can make for an interesting battle, but that's it.On the other end of the spectrum, I don't even have space to allocate new "big" creature races. Those would be nice, I remember reading about Nerras, and thinking that they would make for a great NPC race to base an entire campaign around. But if I only use them in a single adventure, it's not deep enough for my taste, and the number of these potential long-term-used races is even too much in those books.So overall this confusion of mine has basically prevented me to buy more monster books. Instead what I tend to do is to build upon creatures from the MM, using character material. Perhaps I would like books about a type of creature, but instead of focusing on new monsters, I'd like the to expand the existing monsters. Maybe Lords of Madness did something like that... only a pity that aberration are one of my least favourite type.</blockquote>

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