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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katerek" data-source="post: 347157" data-attributes="member: 5193">I have every monster book that has come out for d20.Monsternomicon is my favorite thus far, taking the crown away from just recently published Liber Beastarius (sp?).The price was fair.The cover was traditional (or what has come to be traditional) yet fresh.  The 'breakthrough' effect was once done to death but I liked the use of it here.Some of the font's inside the book were a bit of a pain but not altogether intolerable.  I liked what was attempted witht he 'handwritten' portion, but quite frankly the font was a too confusing.The size comparison pics were amazingly useful, something I haven't seen since the days of the old cthulluh books.  I too would like to see this standard.The artwork was superb for the most part, there were a few pics that were a bit too busy, but overall I enjoyed it.  I like seeing the monster's in question 'in action' as it were, and this provided that visually more than once.The actual monsters were solid through and through.  Anyone not wanting steampunk elements in their game can easily just call the steampowered automatons golems and get on with it.  In fact, I do just that, and my players never questioned it.The approach on tomes was neat, it would be better served if it slowly became an industry standard.  This too harkened me back to the days of cthulluh.While I myself won't use every monster in there, there were no monsters that I looked at and said "Now that is just silly."Normally I am hyper-critical of monster books, and for my money almost everything published thus far has been a turd.  That is only my opinion, however, and is not meant as a challenge to anyones belief or favorites.I was very satisfied with monsternomicon, the only real regret I have about it is that it wasn't in color.  I look forward to additional volumes.</blockquote>

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