Preview of Monsters of Myth-Osric

[tx7321]

Found this link at DF http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20222

great cover team Osric, really neat. And W/ Steve Marsh!

DIRECT LINK: http://knights-n-knaves.com/osric/mom.html

 

[Voadam]

Looks like the biggest OSRIC thing to date. I hope they do a preview and the monsters are as in depth as the 2e entries instead of the skimpy 1e ones.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Looks like the biggest OSRIC thing to date. I hope they do a preview and the monsters are as in depth as the 2e entries instead of the skimpy 1e ones.

The skimpy 1E ones let us create our own worlds instead of having official nonsense for people to insist on. Death to canon!

 

[Voadam]

The skimpy 1E ones let us create our own worlds instead of having official nonsense for people to insist on. Death to canon!

Long live good descriptions!

I preferred having physical descriptions for every monster and at least some descriptions for ecology and society interactions. IME it was more useful material for me as a DM to use in portraying a critter or humanoid creature.

1e stats were pretty easy. Everything has the same HD type, attack bonus, and saves only varying by number of HD. Descriptions, art, and a few unique powers were what made monster books interesting.

 

[Ourph]

Descriptions, art, and a few unique powers were what made monster books interesting.

IMO it's innovative and cool monster concepts that make a monster book interesting. If you can communicate that interesting concept in an evocative manner with a couple of paragraphs (rather than, say, a page and a half) so much the better. I could care less about ecology as long as the descriptions spark my interest for throwing the monsters at my players.

 

[tx7321]

Ourph, well said.

This book will be usable by C&C players because its compatable with AD&D1, and that has to do with (I hope) a 1980s style presentation. It makes it much easier to use monsters when they aren't overly developed, one of the strengths of C&C and OSRIC products.