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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gidien" data-source="post: 2938120" data-attributes="member: 6372">This may be a bit of a tease, since I don't have the book. However, I did see it yesterday at Barnes and Nobles, and so it must be out. I'm sure someone out there has it and might want to answer some questions.Here are some of my first impressions: The book was lean, but so are all WOTC books these days (a reason I have yet to buy any 3.5 books since the PHB). The art was very pretty, IMHO, with some nice pictures in a fairly realistic style. Examples were some of the dragonspawn, and the elemental avatar of water. None of the monsters really caught my interest. The dragonspawn have a lot of variety, as opposed to just three types in five colors, which is what I expected. As such, I think I could easily modify the descriptions to make them into "new" monsters and use them in all kinds of situations.The NPC type monsters were a huge yawn. Honestly, these things could easily be statted up by DMs of nearly every level of experience. And some are clear reprints. The Githyanki, for instance, look exactly like the classed Githyanki presented back when Dragon and Dungeon Mag had their Invasion issue. And a Half-Fiend Gnoll warrior type, who would have thought of that?!So, not something I'm likely to buy, but then as I mentioned earlier, I stopped buying WOTC when everything jumped to $30+.</blockquote>