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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 9044982" data-attributes="member: 8863">Voadam is basically right here.  MC3 largely continues the conversion of stuff from 1e, mostly the MM and MMII, with some FF thrown in.  The rest of the space has some of Ed's stuff from Dragon, but for the most part it's all general purpose stuff.  The dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals were a pretty big staple in 1e, and it's probably because Gary could get toys of them to use for minis without too much trouble.  And lost worlds with surviving remnant populations of these animals often are a feature of the pulp fiction that inspired the game.  I think Gary did get a bit carried away with too many similar dinosaurs though.This is the only loose leaf MC I ever saw for sale when I was buying my 2e.  For some reason I didn't pick it up, maybe because I had this irrational dislike for the Realms at the time.  I didn't really miss much though, since a good number of monsters here got into the MM or the later MCs, particularly the Annuals.  The lung dragons was probably the biggest thing I missed, TBH.  Still, this was a pretty useful all-purpose MC until about 1996.  But it's not my favorite kitchen sink setting MC.  That one will be coming up quite a bit later.And I have to disagree with Alzrius.  The dumbest monster in here is definitely the sull.  At least the ascallion and vurgens have an aquatic niche.And the term you're looking for isn't acid test, it's traction:[URL unfurl="true"]https://web.archive.org/web/20090601222643/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20050909a[/URL]There's a lot of stuff from later MCs that definitely lacked traction.</blockquote>

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