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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9350318" data-attributes="member: 11760">I love, love, love this book.It's worth noting that there are about 200 top-line monster categories, but many of them, like the dragon entries, include charts that split them into subtypes. Technically, the book has two dragons: ancient and young. But there are also 20 types of each --red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, black, white, prismatic, lead, tin, iron, brass, bronze, copper, mercury, silver, gold and chrome, complete with most of the customizations that would go along with traditional D&D subtypes.When a monster looks like it's "missing" from the book, it's often just hidden as a subcategory of a monster category. So both the blink dog and "displaced cat" are part of the larger "shivered beast" entry, about strange "animals" from outside reality, that includes 12 specific types of monsters, which also include the parasitic wolf, true flatworm, angle hound, hidebehind, underdog, quantum ogre, logawurm, tunnel frog, ineffable beast and fungible slug.I'm sure there are some highly specific OSR campaigns where this book wouldn't fit: strict medieval simulations with no magic or grim-faced sagas where even dark humor would be out of place, to say nothing of Skerples' whimsy. But IMO, this is the second book any OSR referee should get, after their core system book. Not only does it have, effectively, several hundred additional monsters, but it's just an absolute fountain of ideas, built to run with no prep, but many of which could be the basis of whole campaigns.</blockquote>

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