Monster Geographica; worth nabbing?

[Rechan]

I'm contemplating Monster Geograhpica: Plains and Desert by Expeditious Retreat Press. There are reviews for Underground and Marsh/Swamp, but not Desert.

My campaign is set in a Nevada-style desert, and so I'm sort've lacking in the monster department. Got all the undead I can shake a stick at. Also all the vermin I could ever want. Don't plan on bothering with Efreet.

Otherwise? I'm at a loss for monsters.

What's holding me back from Monster Geographica is 1) No table of contents, 2) It's 3.5, and that's only got 8 months of usage at this point, and 3) It's split between Plains and Desert, 200 monsters, all the way to CR 20. Since I'm desert, that's potentially half the book right there (100 monsters), and I don't need CR 13+ monsters, so that's potentially a large slice.

Anyone have this book and can comment?

 

[Crothian]

It's well worth it since for the cost it is cheap. So, not using all the monsters (and frankly aside from the MM there is no monster book I've use more then 50% of) is not that big a deal.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Well, I would definitely recommend the PDF. And I imagine the hard copy would be equally useful, if in slightly different ways.

Lots of monsters. Arranged helpfully. Is good.

However, if 'lavish illustration' (a term that gets bandied about a lot these days) is your thing, then maybe look elsewhere.


edit --- I'm sticking with 3e, 'Od20' and 'oOGL', so I suggest taking whatever I said here with that in mind.

 

[Treebore]

You get good illustrations if you buy the Fiery Dragon Counters that go along with them. Which I did.

 

[Klaus]

You get good illustrations if you buy the Fiery Dragon Counters that go along with them. Which I did.

As soon as I finish the Plains & Desert one, titled "Endless Horizon".

And I will. Promise.

 

[Treebore]

As soon as I finish the Plains & Desert one, titled "Endless Horizon".

And I will. Promise.

I had forgotten that wasn't out. I had just used substitutes from the "Gold" collection.

 

[Klaus]

I had forgotten that wasn't out. I had just used substitutes from the "Gold" collection.

I already did over 50 of the 200 monsters in MG&D. If everything goes smoothly, I should have it all done by the end of the month or earlier, and then its over to Fiery Dragon for release.

 

[Rechan]

Dangit. I thought they had it in PDF. Apparently there's just a print option.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Dangit. I thought they had it in PDF. Apparently there's just a print option.

MG&D is available as a PDF. Expeditious Retreat is not selling through RPGNow/DriveThru/OneBookshelf is all.

The Auld Grump
*EDIT* And yes, the PDF is most definitely worth grabbing - I find having the critters broken down by terrain amazingly handy on occasion.

 

[Rechan]

OH! I was basing this off of Expeditious Retreat's website.

There they had it listed as $20.