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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5299493" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think they can be fun to read. It's hard to say if they've gotten better or not, but I think the newer books are generally at least as good as the older ones. The crunch has definitely improved. Demonomicon has both awesome fluff and crunch. I think it is the best book they've done so far. I'd rate all the other generic supplements about equally. MotP's crunch was a bit on the low side of the scale, but it was the first supplement. Mostly I agree with Riastlin, for pure monster stuff you don't need supplements, but they do tend to have good fluff to go with the monsters. You can get the stat blocks from DDI but it is nice to get some good story with your monsters. MM3 is good for that too, but the supplements can put a lot more into it than a monster book can. I've gotten a lot of use out of the Draconomicons, Demonomicon, and Open Grave. The other planar books not quite so much but then again we haven't played a ton of high level stuff where they really come into play more. Underdark is fairly cool and if I ever manage to get the players into going deep in the earth I'll get some good use out of it. Basically I'd say they are all good. If you are going to want to focus on a given environment or theme that a book covers it is well worth getting that book. Hopefully they'll do a Shadowfell and a Feywild book at some point as those really would be pretty interesting and useful. Beyond that though it seems like they've rather mined out the &quot;Book about this or that location&quot; thing. I guess we'll have to see what sorts of stuff come next.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5299493, member: 82106"] I think they can be fun to read. It's hard to say if they've gotten better or not, but I think the newer books are generally at least as good as the older ones. The crunch has definitely improved. Demonomicon has both awesome fluff and crunch. I think it is the best book they've done so far. I'd rate all the other generic supplements about equally. MotP's crunch was a bit on the low side of the scale, but it was the first supplement. Mostly I agree with Riastlin, for pure monster stuff you don't need supplements, but they do tend to have good fluff to go with the monsters. You can get the stat blocks from DDI but it is nice to get some good story with your monsters. MM3 is good for that too, but the supplements can put a lot more into it than a monster book can. I've gotten a lot of use out of the Draconomicons, Demonomicon, and Open Grave. The other planar books not quite so much but then again we haven't played a ton of high level stuff where they really come into play more. Underdark is fairly cool and if I ever manage to get the players into going deep in the earth I'll get some good use out of it. Basically I'd say they are all good. If you are going to want to focus on a given environment or theme that a book covers it is well worth getting that book. Hopefully they'll do a Shadowfell and a Feywild book at some point as those really would be pretty interesting and useful. Beyond that though it seems like they've rather mined out the "Book about this or that location" thing. I guess we'll have to see what sorts of stuff come next. [/QUOTE]

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