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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 1670305" data-attributes="member: 5724">Heya Mike, might as well take your excellent post and turn it into a shameless plug for our upcoming Monster Geographica books. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The monster number is important to me as well, I know I've deliberately not bought a monster book because there were too few monsters for me. [plug]That's why Monster Geographica books contain 200 monsters![/plug]This is something else I've noticed. Personally, I think that a lot of this has to do with the formation that monsters books use: Alphabeticaly listing each monster by name. This format's great when you're already familiar with every monster and it's relative power, but when faced with a new book of unfamiliar monsters, what GMs really need is a CR arrangement. That way they can go right to that group of monsters they can use to challange their party without having to constantly flip around in the book's pages. And then, remembering "What was that new cool monster's name?" is less of an issue because it's easier to remember that it partially cool because it was of an appropriate challange for your group. That's why the Monster Geographica monsters are arranged by ascending Challange Rating rather than Alpha-name. Even the monsters by type (ala Fey or Abberation) is listed according to CR rather than alphabetically. But an alpha Table of Contents allows for name searches, of course.Hopefully we'll challange the assumption that monster books have to follow WotC's lead in design. Monster Geographica books are compilations of 200 OGC monsters (around 50% updates from 3.0 to 3.5) from 20 or so sources. They're focused on a particular environment (the first one is Underground), pocket-sized, contain no art, are arranged by CR not name, and sell for only $20. All of this is most-definitely not WotC SOP. Hopefully, this means they'll sell great rather than bomb... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> *cross fingers*joe b.</blockquote>

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