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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4202782" data-attributes="member: 54846">You know, it's funny. Yesterday I went to a used bookstore and was thumbing through the Monsternomicon. It's an Iron Kingdoms monster book. And a lot of the monsters were pretty typical from a mechanical point of view - improved grab, minor spell-likes, yawn.But what really made the book just pop was that the information about the monster itself was told from the first-person perspective of a monster hunter/adventurer. He told anecdotes. As I was flipping through, I got irritated because I wanted the monster info without skimming the blather, but when I sat down to read the blather, it was really good and it made the otherwise hum-drum monsters really enticing. Each monster fit.In addition, most of the monsters had a section called "Legends & Lore" which was just common to rare things told about them. There was some real Gold in there, like "Trapperkin abhore a mother's love; if a mother or a pregnant woman hugs a trapperkin, it will wither and die." I even saw a monster entry and it made me say, "WHen I run a home brew game, this will be in there" because it just got my juices going. Meanwhile, I look at the MM and its scores of humanoids, and you have to work at making them interesting.</blockquote>