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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2011932" data-attributes="member: 232">Monster Geographica Marsh and Aquatic    Monster and monster books are always fun.  Each monster is a potential hazard or obstacle for the players.  They can play the part of dumb brute that gets in the players way, to a dastardly behind the scenes villain to potential friend and ally.  Monsters can be interesting and surprising or run of the mill.  There are literally thousands of different creatures out there across scores of books.  Monsters can be divided in many ways.  They can be classified by monster type or challenge rating for instance.  But the most useful way seems to be by environment.  And that is what the Monster Geographica series does.      The latest in book in the Monster Geographica is on Marshes and Aquatic creatures.  The series takes two hundred creatures that are OGL from other sources, updates them to 3.5 if needed, and tries to fix any problems that might have happened in the original source.  The two hundred creatures are from a wide variety of products, I count over two dozen of them.  All the creatures are belong in the environments of swamps or underwater.  This makes it very easy to use because when ever the adventures take the characters in these places all the DM needs to do is grab this one book for creatures.    The book is fully book marked but takes it one step father.  The book marks list the creatures by type, by challenge rating, and also alphabetically.  This makes it very easy to find the creature that best fits the needs of the adventure.  The book does not have the monsters listed alphabetically.  Instead the monsters are listed from low challenge rating to high.  This is so that if a challenge rating six creature is needed, they are all listed next to each other for easy comparison.  It is different from any other monster book but I have found it to be a lot more useful and makes the book very user friendly.      The bottom line with this product is if one needs monsters that live in marshes and or aquatic environments then this product will prove very useful.  There is no art in the book to keep the cost down and two hundred creatures for eight dollars is a good deal.</blockquote>

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