Creature Weekly Volume 2

[Messageboard Golem]

We have you covered. Each entry is illustrated and features variant rules support and genre adjustment information so you can easily fit the creatures into your campaign, whether it is set in the wilds of a medieval empire, the streets of a modern metropolis or the depths of far-flung space.

Volume Two features eight creatures and variants, including the big bad/great goodly animal template (Big Bad Wolf, Great Goodly Eagle, Big Bad Tyrannosaurus and Great Goodly Lion included); the borm, or ankylotaurs are they are often called, a race of saurian beings from a lost age; the fleshstripper, or ghoulish gnoll, the chosen undead servants of the Demon Lord of Gnolls; the phobic slayer, a living nightmare born of the minds of those driven mad by contact with monstrous creatures; and finally, the star titan, an immense invader from beyond the stars ready to pillage any world, futuristic or fantasy, in search of the minerals that sustain its species.

A bonus NPC and the diety of the Borm are also included.

This 19 page PDF provides you not only with an average creature entry length of two pages and multiple template examples. It gives you all the variant rules support you need to take the creatures out of the usual fantasy settings and place them in any d20 game you want. Each entry includes variant rules information for easy genre adaptation: Wounds/Vitality, sanity loss, massive damage threshold, defense bonus variant, armor as damage reduction, 3.0/Modern damage reduction, honor taint and allegiances are all supported alongside the standard 3.5 rules set.

Creature Weekly gives you more menace for your monster and the weekly release schedule ensures you will always have something new to challenge your players.

Now in print-friendly vertical layout.

 

[Crothian]

Creature Weekly Volume 2

This is the second collection of creatures in the weekly series. It is good to see that they have learned from one and improved the format and layout of the product. They have added a few new details to make the creatures usable in any genre. The versatility of the extra information makes these monsters very easy to use in any d20 game.

The second volume is a little bigger then the first coming in at nineteen pages. It is comes in a zip file a little over two megs in size and the unzipped PDF is a little bigger at around two and half megs. The layout is improved over the first book and this one is much easier to read. The art is a nice mix of color and black and white pictures. There are color borders that do make the book a bit of an ink eater when printed. The book also does not have any book marks.

One nice thing this monster book includes that no other one I have seen does is alternative rules and ideas for different genres. Most of the time the fantasy monster book is written assuming that it will be used in the fantasy game. This books does that but also includes sidebars that explore other genres like Modern Fantasy and Modern sci fi. It also has alternative rules for each creatures like vitality and wound points, honor, defense bonus, armor class as damage reduction, and honor and taint. This is simple information that really makes the few monster presented here very easy and fun to use in practically any d20 game.

The first pair of creatures is actually a pair of templates. They are Animal Big Bad/ Great Goodly. The idea behind these is the supernatural fairy tale animals like the big bad wolf. The names might seem a little silly for a more serious game but I think the idea behind the templates is very sound. The sample animals are the big bad wolf and the bigger and truly bad T-Rex. On the good side are the lion and eagle. There are nice easy to use backgrounds for the creatures. I really look forward to using these templates in a Grimm game, that setting really seems ideal for these creatures.

The Borm are a saurian psuedo humanoids. They area tribal people with stone age technology. Part of making these easier to use the book also has a new god for them and a scaleykind clerical domain.

The flesh stripper is a gnoll ghoul. There is alos a NPC fully defined of one of these creatures.

The Phobic Slayer and the Star Titan are the last two creatures here. Both are nicely described and offer some great ideas especially in a non fantasy setting.

This is another solid collection of creatures. There are not a lot here and it should be easy to know if these creatures will be useful. This seems to be a good series of books and hopefully the strength will continue.