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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustaPlayer" data-source="post: 2008650" data-attributes="member: 17202">The thing that got me to pick up this book was the name.  I thought to myself, a book with some major baddies to throw at my players.  When I received my copy in the mail, I turned to the table of contents and said to myself, "Wow, this is gonna be good."  I was sadly mistaken.On my cursory look, the first thing I noticed was how off most of the monster CRs were.  I don't know about you, but when I by a product for $30, I expect a certain quality.  That includes CRs being correct.  The CRs on many of these creatures are off by more than 5.  When I talked about this on the company web page, Jim Ward said I was "being stupid" "99% of the people using this book could care less about CRs."The fact is the problem with this book go beyond CRs not being right.  One thing that stood out was Tiamat's breath weapon.  It says the damage, and the DC (which I think is a little low).  Nowhere do I see how often the can be used.In the stat block for Asmodeus, the AC seems to be calculated wrong.  They don't add the +5 protection bonus from a crown that he wear 100% of the time, or if they did, didn't mention it.I saw monsters with the Attack weapon being different from the one mentioned in the Damage stat.  Not to mention that I saw entries with wepon damages different than stated in the Core Rulebooks, but didn't see any explanation of this.I saw one entry without a Feats stat what so ever.Skills and feats of many of the monsters seem like they are off.The whole work reminds me of a 1st edition product.  Make a description and pull up numbers out of thin air.  Bottom line is, if you buy this product you better get out the pencil and a lot of paper, you got your work cut out for you.On an editorial note, I noticed some pictures on the wrong monster.  Babi/Bali have the wrong pictures, they have been switched.  I also saw the entry Psion noted in his review of the Baatezu which really was supposed to be a Tanar'ri.The art was OK, reminds me very much like 1st edition art.End result, I can pick up much better products from other companies for less money.</blockquote>

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