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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2008698" data-attributes="member: 18387">Nightmares andDreams II is Mystic Eye Games second creature book and is a great improvement over the first.The art is the most noticably improved and really brings the creatures within to life. There is one particular problem I noticed, there are a couple of creatures whose art doesn't quite match up to the description the most noticable ones being the Dracohydra and the Exoskeleton. The Dracohydra description says it has nine heads coming from where a tail should be but the artist put them around the main head. The exoskeleton is supposed to be an animated insect but the artist drew a picture of a man wearing insect armor, hmmm. There is little paragraph that explains the picture in the back, but I get the impression it was put there to cover the mistake.The layout is okay, there is some instances where an item or plot hook for one creature is found on another page referring back to the monster it belongs to. That kind of bugged me. Each creature includes a short story describing how they were dreamed into life and many also include new items, spells, or adventure hooks.Now on to the creaturesAssembled: really cool zombie variant that is created out of the sewn together parts of different creatures.Gothosian Behemoth: A true behemoth that is nothing but mouth and legs and comes in four different flavors. It kind of reminds me of a Japanese superdeformed monster.Bolbouloid: A cross between a dragon, squid and a hot air ballon. A bizarre yet cool creature.Breas: Fey Warriors that accept undeath to forever guard the secrets of the forest.Carrion Bird: An undead bird that calls out names. Watch out if it calls out yours.Celestial Head: A floating head that is as big as a man and seeks to punish wrongdoers. Perhaps my least favorite monster in the book.Chupacabra: A template to create bloodsucking animals. Don't touch that squirrell!Curicaun: A humorus alcoholic type of fey. Probably won't get much use but you could have a lot of fun with this one.Deadwood Tree: Undead TreeDracohydra: A dragon, hydra hybrid. Dream Dragon: This was on their website at one time. Just another dragon.Dream Weaver: This creature I beleive is specific to their Gothos campaign world. I like the dream adventure item.Exoskeleton: Animated remains of insect carapaces.Frostbitten: Zombies with an icy twistGlutton: This is one of my favorite monsters a pigman that eats constantly and woe to anything that tries to stop it.Graffitit Demon: Another favorite, you can cause a lot of trouble with this little guy. Hes a demon that is an expert in forgery.Grave Born: A spirit that possesses unborn childrenGrotesque Devourer: Undead creature that swallows opponents whole.Grove Guardian: Golem created by druids to protect thier groves.Man-Fisher: A fish man that tries to catch people. Looks kind of like the creature collection II piscean(sp).Mossborn: Zombie covered in a deadly carpet of moss and vines.Myceliums: Cool little mushroom guys ala myconids.Mycobeast: Template for creating mushroom creatures used by the myceliumsOogie Boogie: Another monster where the art is different than the description. Fey creatures that use illusions to scare people to death.Putredryad: One of the more unique creatures I have seen. An undead dryad corrupted by the unnatural death of her tree.Rusalka: Another undead, this one disquised as a beautiful woman.Snoggleblat: Odd little creatures that multiple rapidly during the spring.Squall: A living sea wave.Tooth Fairy: A malicious fairy that steals teeth.Visceral Golem: Golem created out of visceral parts like intestines.Wrecker Beast: Humongous beast that eats ruins.Zombie Template: Make your own zombie turtle or whatever you want.All in all this is a good book for the DM who is looking for something new and unique to throw at his or her overconfident players and it only costs 11.95. For that small price you get 32 monsters, 5 new spells, 9 new items as well as adventure hooks and subspecies for some of the monsters. Go out and buy it now.</blockquote>

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