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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9452023" data-attributes="member: 11760">Ptolus has an extremely high buy-in ($150 for the 5E version of the book), but it's, IMO, the best city sourcebook ever, for people who want a detailed D&D fantasy city. (It's not a city creation toolkit, in other words.) It has enough content for at least three 1-20 campaigns and probably many more, realistically. I've been using the 3E and later 5E versions of the book for an ongoing campaign since 2006 and there's tons of stuff we've never even scratched the surface of.For other supplements, I would look at Sly Flourish's Forge of Foes, which is arguably the last monster book you'll ever need, as it teaches you how to create well-balanced and interesting monsters on the fly.If you want someone else to make the monsters for you, I enjoy the somewhat whimsical monster books by Cawood Publishing, but many more people swear by Kobold Press' monster books, including the various Tomes of Beasts, each of which is like punching your player characters in the mouth. And there's also Monster Manual Expanded, which fleshes out the 5E Monster Manual with monster variants in the first volume, unpublished-in-5E monsters from earlier editions in the later volumes, along with monsters from world mythology, including many from Asia.</blockquote>