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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 3933016" data-attributes="member: 2209">If you are looking for open content monsters to reuse in things like writing OGL compliant modules or such then stay away from the Creature Collections, Manual of Monsters, Monsters of Norrath, Monsters of Luclin and the Malhavoc press monster books (Monsters of the ID I believe and Legacy of Dragons). These make the stat blocks but not the names or descriptions of the monsters OGC and you will have to do a lot of work to reuse them (writing up your own names and descriptions or getting specific permission to use the protected names and descriptions).Tome of Horrors, Tome of Horrors Revised (3.5), and Complete Minions have full OGC designations for all the writing, and Denizens of Avadnu might as well. These are the gold standards for reusable OGC. I think all the non oathbound Bastion Press products are this way and their Into the Green, Black, and Blue environment sourcebooks are about half filled with monster entries.Penumbra Fantasy Bestiary has the names and stats but not the specific descriptions as OGC.Book of Fiends is moderately open with some restrictions IIRC.Monsternomicon has a lot of campaign specific info description that is not open and I'm not sure about the general description stuff.Advanced Bestiary; Book of Templates (original, Deluxe, deluxe 3.5); Creatures of Freeport; Creatures Weekly; Creatures of Ados; EN Critters; Fantasy Flight Games' Giant Lore, Draconic Lore, Elemental Lore, Necromantic Lore, and Twisted Lore; Hungry Little Monsters; and Template Trove series are all good monster products but I'm not sure about the OGC designations. I think the EN Publishing critter series are open but I haven't checked in a while.</blockquote>

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