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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2011591" data-attributes="member: 232">Monster Geographica Underground PDF    Monster books are really on the rise.  The production values of some of them have been full color and full gloss pages in a nice hardbound book.  Others pack in lots of good creatures with some good art to attract customers.  They usually offer a wide variety of creatures or a narrow focus that serves as the theme of the book.  Monster Geographica Underground offers a new type of monster book though; all the monsters in it are from other books.      Monster Geographica Underground (MGU) is a PDF by Expeditious Retreat.  They are best known for their PDF/Book a Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe.  As with that they break new ground by offering a new type of monster book.  MGU focuses on creatures that can be found underground and while this is not anything new in itself (see Monster of the Endless Dark for example), this is compilation of previously released monsters.  About half of the monsters had yet to be updated to 3.5 before this volume.  All the monsters have been edited to make sure that they are done properly and all the little errors are nonexistent.  The book offers two hundred monsters in this 200 pages of text.  And its all text as to conserve on space and price no art except the cover appears in the PDF.      The PDF comes in a zip file a little under five megs in size.  Inside are three different PDFs.  The first is the cover done in full color and by Ravindra Rana.  The other two are the bulk of the book one in designed for on the screen and the other designed to be printed.  One of the highlights for me is the book marks.  This is possible the most concise book marking I have seen.  One of the great things they did was have the monsters listed three ways in the book marks.  They are listed by challenge rating, alphabetically, and by creature type.   That is a great way to make sure the creatures can be found with ease.  However, there is no art.  As I said they did not include art for cost and size reasons.  I can understand that, but monsters are nice to have pictures of.  It is just easier to envision some of these creatures using a picture then the written descriptions.      There are two hundred creatures here.  I am not sure exactly how many monsters are found in the other monster books, but two hundred does sound like a good amount.  They range in challenge rating from one fourth to twenty.  Creature types are also very varied.  One really good thing that they include is flora and fauna.  These are a great addition for people who want exotic but not always deadly plants to enhance their world.      MGU is a very good monster book.  The stats of the creatures were specifically all checked and redone when necessary to ensure accuracy.   The two hundred monsters that come from a few dozen different sources brings together the creatures one needs to populate the underground.</blockquote>

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