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<blockquote data-quote="Keldryn" data-source="post: 3814600" data-attributes="member: 11999">I'm fairly certain that the first two volumes of the Monstrous Compendium were intended to be &quot;core.&quot;&nbsp; Volume 3 was labeled &quot;Forgotten Realms Appendix&quot; -- although it did include some non-FR monsters.&nbsp; I always saw Vol. 1 &amp; 2 together as the complete product, and at the age of 15 it didn't really bother me that much that I had to buy the binder with half of the pages as one product and the other half of the pages as the second.&nbsp; Pretty much every MC appendix released after Vol. 2 had problems fitting alphabetically into the bind of Vol. 1 &amp; 2 monsters, due to one monster being printed on each side of the page.&nbsp; I think that Vol. 3 might have been planned well enough that it didn't have this problem, but I can't remember anymore.&nbsp; The &quot;Fiend Folio&quot; MC Appendix was fairly late in the line, IIRC (MC 12?), and I don't recall any other books assuming that you owned it -- definitely not the DMG. I think this was less to do with the Monstrous Compendiums being &quot;incomplete&quot; books of monsters, but because the whole &quot;Binder&quot; idea sounded good at first but ended up being a clunky, oversized mess full of pages that kept tearing out.&nbsp; The Hardcover book was more durable and could fit as much content into a much smaller size.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Keldryn, post: 3814600, member: 11999"] I'm fairly certain that the first two volumes of the Monstrous Compendium were intended to be "core." Volume 3 was labeled "Forgotten Realms Appendix" -- although it did include some non-FR monsters. I always saw Vol. 1 & 2 together as the complete product, and at the age of 15 it didn't really bother me that much that I had to buy the binder with half of the pages as one product and the other half of the pages as the second. Pretty much every MC appendix released after Vol. 2 had problems fitting alphabetically into the bind of Vol. 1 & 2 monsters, due to one monster being printed on each side of the page. I think that Vol. 3 might have been planned well enough that it didn't have this problem, but I can't remember anymore. The "Fiend Folio" MC Appendix was fairly late in the line, IIRC (MC 12?), and I don't recall any other books assuming that you owned it -- definitely not the DMG. I think this was less to do with the Monstrous Compendiums being "incomplete" books of monsters, but because the whole "Binder" idea sounded good at first but ended up being a clunky, oversized mess full of pages that kept tearing out. The Hardcover book was more durable and could fit as much content into a much smaller size. [/QUOTE]

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