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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catastrophic" data-source="post: 5059542" data-attributes="member: 81381">Mark, i'm not actually interested in continuing this tangent, you are of course free to post as many excuses and greviances against the GSL as you like.  So, getting back to the topic, what would people think about a book introducing a new monster or 'family' of monsters, which included a bunch of builds, fluff, background, notes for introducing them to a seting, and maybe even a PC race or two (which would only take a few pages, after all)?  I think a decent monster concept properly fleshed out could make a pretty good book, and AFAIK new monsters can be added to the WOTC monster builder quite easily, also. One problem I forsee with this is that any monster would have to have a lot of character and a 'hook' to compete with all the monsters already in the MM, but otoh, the more distinctive you make a creature, the more likely it's style is to turn some people off.  In the Monster Manuals that just means they flip to another page, but in a book based around a single 'family' of monsters, that isn't an option and they might just put the book down instead.</blockquote>