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<blockquote data-quote="Shade" data-source="post: 3808119" data-attributes="member: 287">1.&nbsp; Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss:&nbsp; Possibly the best book of any edition.&nbsp; The perfect marriage of authors and content, they combined the lore from all editions into an exciting, cohesive whole.2.&nbsp; Lords of Madness:&nbsp; I always liked illithids and aboleths, but not nearly at the level of some of the other iconic monsters like demons and devils.&nbsp; This book took me by surprise at its sheer greatness.&nbsp;&nbsp; The layout seemed perfect for my tastes, with each major race getting a chapter.&nbsp; It was like an expanded Ecology article for each creature.&nbsp; I wish more books had been released in its format.3.&nbsp; Fiend Folio:&nbsp; The best of the hardback Monster Manuals (and the only one not bearing the Monster Manual title).&nbsp; It broke the most ground of any monster book (swarms, symbionts, and so on), and introduced a bunch of &quot;monsters with traction&quot;:&nbsp; kaorti, ethergaunts, nerra, chronotyryn, shadar-kai.&nbsp; It also udated fan-favorite creatures from previous editions (demodands, rilmani) for 3e.&nbsp; The monster books that followed never quite achieved the same level of greatness (although MMV made nice strides).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shade, post: 3808119, member: 287"] 1. Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss: Possibly the best book of any edition. The perfect marriage of authors and content, they combined the lore from all editions into an exciting, cohesive whole. 2. Lords of Madness: I always liked illithids and aboleths, but not nearly at the level of some of the other iconic monsters like demons and devils. This book took me by surprise at its sheer greatness. The layout seemed perfect for my tastes, with each major race getting a chapter. It was like an expanded Ecology article for each creature. I wish more books had been released in its format. 3. Fiend Folio: The best of the hardback Monster Manuals (and the only one not bearing the Monster Manual title). It broke the most ground of any monster book (swarms, symbionts, and so on), and introduced a bunch of "monsters with traction": kaorti, ethergaunts, nerra, chronotyryn, shadar-kai. It also udated fan-favorite creatures from previous editions (demodands, rilmani) for 3e. The monster books that followed never quite achieved the same level of greatness (although MMV made nice strides). [/QUOTE]

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