Monster Fluff

[Voadam]

2e monstrous comendiums.

Ecology articles in Dragon.

Monsternomicon I & II, Denziens of Avadnu, Penumbra Fantasy Bestiary, Complete Minions are all OGL 3e/3.5 monster collection books with great monster description info for their entries. Of the many monster books I've read these stand out for lots of this type of info to build off of.

Slayer's Guide to X by Mongoose and Complete Guide to X by Goodman Games are series of books devoted to single types of various creatures.

Paradigm Concepts who do the Arcanis books have some for Lycanthropes, Giants, and Mind Flayers.

3.5 by WotC has Lords of Madness for various abberrations and Draconomicon for dragons. WotC also has a statless children's book guide to dragons and one for general monsters.

AEG has Dragons, Mongoose has Slayer's Guide to Dragons and Book of Dragons.

I've heard good things about the Paizo book.

 

[jinnetics]

Monstropedia.com. The Iliad. The Odyssey. Metamorphoses. Dante. The Bible. Bulfinch's Mythology. Hans Christian Anderson. Your library (it's free!).

 

[Byronic]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

I guess I have a lot of reading to do then ^_^ (I like imagination but if I prefer to use that for plots, characterisation and writing proper fiction)

 

[JVisgaitis]

Denizens of Avadnu is all original monsters, no D&D IP. Many entries get two or more pages. Imo it's total crap. The art in particular, vital for a monster book, is awful. But a lot of people seem to like it.

LOL. That's hysterical. Thanks, you really made me laugh. You can check out all of our "awful artwork" here: http://www.icirclegames.com/artgalleries_doa.html

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I would like to name the classic: "Your mind". Also there might be the special edition "Imagination" availiable in a store near you.

Dude, I pay good money for OTHER PEOPLE to use their minds and imagination for me! That's what the old MMs were all about. My mind is great at making up freakish bestial creatures and thoroughly unpleasant NPCs with a plan, but I've seen way better Fey, Dragons and Humanoid monsters from other people.