Monster Manual III "In the Works"

[JoeGKushner]

Monster Manual III eh? I'm surprised they went this route instead of doing a annual Monstrous Compendium like they used to do. When they did the Magic Items, then the Spells, I really hoped that they would do one for the Monsters. Now that 3.5 is out, I'm still kinda of hoping that we'll see every monster done up in 3.5 with full color artwork.

 

[Pants]

The Monster Manual III cover looks like a placeholder for me.

Cheers!

I seriously hope so, that cover is pretty bland.

Other things I'd like to see:
Todd Lockwood
Sam Wood
Arnie Swekel
Ron Spencer
Marc Sasso
Wayne Reynolds
Raven Mimura

But instead, we'll get
Dennis Cramer
David Roach
Vince Locke
Matt Mitchell

 

[jester47]

I am surprised they have not used the old Creature Catalog title from years ago. Might be because it is too close to White Wolf's Creature Collection, and the fact that Scott Greene's website is named that.

Aaron.

 

[Kai Lord]

I seriously hope so, that cover is pretty bland.

Other things I'd like to see:
Todd Lockwood

Yeah I talked to him about this. Other than some novel covers for Drizzt books, Todd isn't really doing anything for WOTC this year. They're simply to cheap to afford him anymore. Utterly lame. :\

 

[Dark Jezter]

Yeah I talked to him about this. Other than some novel covers for Drizzt books, Todd isn't really doing anything for WOTC this year. They're simply to cheap to afford him anymore. Utterly lame. :\

D'oh!

Todd Lockwood is my favorite 3e D&D artist. I would have loved to see more of his quality illustrations in upcoming D&D books.

 

[Pants]

Yeah I talked to him about this. Other than some novel covers for Drizzt books, Todd isn't really doing anything for WOTC this year. They're simply to cheap to afford him anymore. Utterly lame. :\

Too bad.
Gone are the days of FRCS quality art.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

I am surprised they have not used the old Creature Catalog title from years ago.

There's always the Creature Crucible, which I always liked as a title.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Monster Manual I has a lot of them from many different sources (greek/roman epics, western/celtic, tolkienensque, gothic/horror and more), but Monster Manual II and Fiend Folio had very few.

The reason is that these beasts are not PI for them, they can't exert copyright control over them, so if someone whips up, say, Scyilla, and then another book whips it up the exact same and publishes it as their own, WotC doesn't have a lot of legal recourse for it....it's a creature from literature/myth, not from D&D, so WotC can't control it. And they are (or at least were) really trying to establish PI with these. No one else can make a Cloud Ray or such now.

 

[Simplicity]

Exactly. Waterdeep can stay away, thanks. I'd rather WotC spend their limited resources on something I haven't seen many times already.

You mean like the Unearthed Arcana, Field Folio, and Manual of the Planes, or do you mean like the Players Handbook, DM's Guide, Monster Manual (each of which has been done twice in this edition). That doesn't seem to be WotC's current operating procedure.

Waterdeep will be done. Oh yes. And when it is done.... Uhhh... I suppose I will have another book that was available in the last edition, but newly updated to the current edition. And it will be good...

 

[Paragon]

i hope they change the cover because that one on gaming report is freaking ugly. sheesh where are the artists at WoTC?