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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4871508" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1431&it=1&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=41?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Complete Minions</a> Full color 3.5 monster book pdf by Bastion Press. Exotic alienesque art from the odd stylings of Todd Morasch. Good monster descriptions with links between several monsters. I've used a bunch from here.</p><p></p><p>I really like the template sourcebook pdfs from <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=74?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Silverthorne Games</a>. There are theme ones such as the symbiote and disease template sourcebook and then the ever expanding big general book of templates. The deluxe book of templates is also a print book that was distributed by Goodman games.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=263?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Ravenloft 3e</a> by Arthaus/White Wolf produced Denizens of Dread and Denizens of Darkness, 3.5 and 3.0 horror themed monster sourcebooks in both print and pdf. I DMed a bunch of ravenloft in 2e and these were familiar favorites, I really liked the 2e descriptions and art of them. At first I was dissapointed by the sparser descriptions and different art in 3e but it grew on me and I've used more than a few from it. I still find the 2e ones more evocative though if you can find those.</p><p></p><p>I've found I really like terrain themed monster books so:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=4178?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">EN Critters Series</a> of 3.5 pdfs with a neat little background setting and good descriptions with links between the monsters and full color though not so refined art. The monster token sheets are a nice touch.</p><p></p><p>The "Into the" series by <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=389?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">DragonWing Games</a> are 3.5 terrain sourcebooks that are about one third monster book each.</p><p></p><p>If you want stats for terrain and CR appropriate monsters then you want the <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=4042?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Monster Geographica</a> series by Expeditious Retreat Press which collects and organizes OGC monsters by terrain and CR from different sources and updates them to 3.5. Sparse descriptions and no art but useful stats and niches. Complimentary art counter collections for each of the monsters is done in products from <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=683?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Fiery Dragon</a>. The full color art is done by Claudio Pozas and is excellent.</p><p></p><p>Another one with superior art is the insanely cheap 3.5 275 page full color <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=54942&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=38?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Complete Book of Denizens</a> by Inner Circle. The print version is Denizens of Avadnu and available cheap as well. Check out the art gallery on their website for good alien monster inspirations.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3019&it=1&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=18?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Tome of Horrors Revised</a> is another insanely good deal pdf with tons of old edition monster conversions plus new monsters sprinkled throughout, a particularly fun demon and devil section. The print 3.0 version is hard to find and often expensive but out there. The descriptions are sparse but a ton of old favorites about which there is a lot of existing material. The follow up ones are all new monsters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4871508, member: 2209"] [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1431&it=1&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=41?affiliate_id=17596"]Complete Minions[/URL] Full color 3.5 monster book pdf by Bastion Press. Exotic alienesque art from the odd stylings of Todd Morasch. Good monster descriptions with links between several monsters. I've used a bunch from here. I really like the template sourcebook pdfs from [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=74?affiliate_id=17596"]Silverthorne Games[/URL]. There are theme ones such as the symbiote and disease template sourcebook and then the ever expanding big general book of templates. The deluxe book of templates is also a print book that was distributed by Goodman games. [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=263?affiliate_id=17596"]Ravenloft 3e[/URL] by Arthaus/White Wolf produced Denizens of Dread and Denizens of Darkness, 3.5 and 3.0 horror themed monster sourcebooks in both print and pdf. I DMed a bunch of ravenloft in 2e and these were familiar favorites, I really liked the 2e descriptions and art of them. At first I was dissapointed by the sparser descriptions and different art in 3e but it grew on me and I've used more than a few from it. I still find the 2e ones more evocative though if you can find those. I've found I really like terrain themed monster books so: [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=4178?affiliate_id=17596"]EN Critters Series[/URL] of 3.5 pdfs with a neat little background setting and good descriptions with links between the monsters and full color though not so refined art. The monster token sheets are a nice touch. The "Into the" series by [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=389?affiliate_id=17596"]DragonWing Games[/URL] are 3.5 terrain sourcebooks that are about one third monster book each. If you want stats for terrain and CR appropriate monsters then you want the [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=4042?affiliate_id=17596"]Monster Geographica[/URL] series by Expeditious Retreat Press which collects and organizes OGC monsters by terrain and CR from different sources and updates them to 3.5. Sparse descriptions and no art but useful stats and niches. Complimentary art counter collections for each of the monsters is done in products from [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=683?affiliate_id=17596"]Fiery Dragon[/URL]. The full color art is done by Claudio Pozas and is excellent. Another one with superior art is the insanely cheap 3.5 275 page full color [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=54942&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=38?affiliate_id=17596"]Complete Book of Denizens[/URL] by Inner Circle. The print version is Denizens of Avadnu and available cheap as well. Check out the art gallery on their website for good alien monster inspirations. [URL="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3019&it=1&filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=18?affiliate_id=17596"]Tome of Horrors Revised[/URL] is another insanely good deal pdf with tons of old edition monster conversions plus new monsters sprinkled throughout, a particularly fun demon and devil section. The print 3.0 version is hard to find and often expensive but out there. The descriptions are sparse but a ton of old favorites about which there is a lot of existing material. The follow up ones are all new monsters. [/QUOTE]
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