Monster Manual 3 Available at Gencon [merged]

[Shade]

Honestly, how many old monsters are left to convert?

At last count, I heard around 2200.

Seriously.

 

[Voadam]

Surely not. The 3.x creatures are defined entirely in 3.x publications. If you want to become a previous edition buff, good for you but, to be fair, providing that kind of gaming history isn't within the remit of creature books for a particular edition. As a DM, you 'really understand' the critters when you're familiar with all the rules (publisher's or yours) you decide to use in your game. You owe previous editions diddly.

Well the 3e MM is quite sparse on the non-mechanical descriptions of monsters. 2e did a better job going in-depth on roleplay aspects with their ecology and habitat/society monster description entries.

 

[Pants]

Well the 3e MM is quite sparse on the non-mechanical descriptions of monsters. 2e did a better job going in-depth on roleplay aspects with their ecology and habitat/society monster description entries.

On one side of the discussion, the ecologies and habitats were a particular way of shoehorning every monster into the core worlds and 'could' actively discourage DM's from using their own ideas on the critters.
On the other hand, they were great idea generators and good reading to boot.

 

[BOZ]

Still no love for the flumph.

you know that ToH will always love the flumph. and the brownie.

 

[Staffan]

Can you start listing some monsters that you'd like to see conversions of?

All the guardinals, eladrin, archons, devils, demons, and yugoloths from Planescape.
Modrons (in something other than a web enhancement). Put them in one book (or at least all of one type), so I don't have to look through five of them to find what I'm looking for.
Dabuses (Dabi?)
The entire Mystara MC appendix - no need to commission new pictures though, the old ones are gorgeous. If not the entire book, at least the living statues and rakastas.
A bunch of Dark Sun monsters as well, like t'liz, kaisharga, the various forms of zik-trin, belgoi, gaj, gith (not -yanki/zerai).
Giff.
The various beholder-kin from I, Tyrant.
That should suffice for one book, I think.

I was quite disappointed in Tome of Horrors, since it seemed far more focused on converting obscure monsters from 1e (like Wolf-in-sheeps-clothing and flail snail) than monsters I would actually use.

 

[Pants]

All the guardinals, eladrin, archons, devils, demons, and yugoloths from Planescape.[/b]

I believe all of the devils and guardinals have been converted. There is one demon (the buleazu), one eladrin (???), one archon (the Tomes), and three yugoloths missing (the dergholoth, hydroloth, gacholoth (?), and baernoloth).

 

[Knight Otu]

... one archon (the Tomes), ...

The LG celestial paragons from the Book of Exalted Deeds are referred to as Tome Archons, I believe?

 

[Gez]

Actually, what is missing from WotC books are: alu-fiends, cambions (sure, the half-fiend can sorta fill that role, but not exactly anyway), bulezau, molydeus; guardian yugoloth, dergholoth, hydroloth, gacholoth.

If you picture in the Tome, the alu-fiend, cambion, dergholoth, and hydroloth are there.

 

[The Human Target]

I just want Brownies. Oh, and Spiggan Gnomes.

 

[kilamanjaro]

I just want Brownies. Oh, and Spiggan Gnomes.

Spriggans are in Fiend Folio or MM2. I forget which one.