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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dren" data-source="post: 1786848" data-attributes="member: 5176">Monsters are one of the things I love most about being a DM in a fantasy millieu...the choices even when you only have 2-3 books is amazing. I know  I have more than six monster books, plus the 100+ monsters of my own design!When I create a new dungeon, I usually go through all of the books making notes about what should be in a given location...often I'll choose too many creatures  with the same "theme" (such as stand alone beasties, hunting predators, etc) and then break a group of monsters up into two or three dungeons, and write it up on a piece of paper with editors notes about the rooms, treasure and magic items. It usually takes about two-three hours, but often I have 2,3 or even 4 dungeons at the end of the process.In every environment (desert, warm dungeon, etc) I have at least one wandering monster table, so that if the players break from their given strategy or quest, I can throw in some monsters without effort. This also works for being a fair DM, a planned monster in a dungeon is one thing, but, it really is nasty for a PC to be killed by a wandering creature you happened to chose on the fly because your players deviated from their supposed plan of action.</blockquote>