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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6937848" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I really enjoyed Fifth Edition Foes and the Book of Lost Spells.The Book of Lost Spells has lots of really interesting and inspiring spells. I loved the warlock voodoo magic in particular. The balance on the Book of Lost Spells is about as good as the PHB. There are some spells in there (like Iron Core) which are waaaaay too strong--but the exact same can be said about PHB spells like Polymorph and Simulacrum and EE spells like Absorb Elements.The main thing that makes me as a DM love the Book of Lost Spells is that it is interesting. I gave out copies to my players and told them to use it as inspiration for their own spell research. That is, they cannot just select spells in it for free on level-up, but they can use my spell research rules to make their own spells that are approximately as interesting as the BoLS spells. (I have a system that makes more powerful spells harder to research and vice versa. E.g. Fireball would have a much higher research DC than Witch Bolt, and some of the better BoLS spells would also have a high DC.)I liked the fact that Fifth Edition Foes included some important stats that are missing from MM monsters, such as ecology, organization, and number appearing. But for one reason or another I haven't wound up using that many FEF monsters at the table.</blockquote>