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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 6037651" data-attributes="member: 9849">Well, by my count, D&D has between 8600 and 9000 distinct creatures detailed across all of the editions. Obviously, the exact number depends on what counts as a "creature", but that's about the ball-park we're talking about.For comparison, Earth has around 1.3 different species described so far (out of an estimated total of 8.7 million species), and the monsters of D&D cover not just one planet, but many different planets, worlds and even planes.It seems like it would be a stretch to put all known D&D creatures on one planet, or even to use all of them in one campaign, but I think there is still plenty of scope for interesting new D&D monsters to be described in the future.</blockquote>