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Message: <blockquote data-quote="unan oranis" data-source="post: 4255521" data-attributes="member: 65462">Overall the art is excellent.I'll just start with my negatives though;Tough call deciding which is the worst MM picture in the book, the group of cyclopsesess...es (cyclopsi?), or the group of orcs.Some of the monsters illustrations are SO bad...  Not as bad as the worst of earlier books, yet it is painfully late in the game to be presenting some of this trash as a professional illustration.  Clearly nepotism plagues wotc's artist department.  Several do not deserve to be in this book.  Every illustration should be of high quality.Some of the best MM pictures of all time are in here too, and they come really close to having a compelling theme.  Particularly the opening splash on page 4 and the yaun-ti have a sort of heavy-metal meets earl norems he-man paintings vibe going on, and while they might not be at the same level as the githyanki or tarrasque, they do capture generic dnd fantasy really well in my opinion.If they weren't going to have a stronger central theme, they should have pushed the different styles further.  The cartoony slaad are excellent, I would have liked to see a lot more monsters in that direction.Thankfully there are loads of good-to-great illustrations all-throughout the book, and I am looking forward to years of enjoying them.I think most people will find it the best looking MM yet, but not by a huge amount (certainly not by the leaps each previous edition has made).These were my thoughts on just the art.  All other considerations as far as the monsters go and the function of the book get a million stars out of a possible five as far as I'm concerned, really fantastic.  (a million? ok maybe 5 out of 5).--unan</blockquote>

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