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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6935817" data-attributes="member: 22424">5 out of 5 rating for Tome of BeastsThis book gave me a rather nice problem: I had already given the 5e MM a 5-star review, and this book is better.The book is pretty straightforward in both what it claims and what it delivers: this is a big book of monsters, very much in the style of the MM. In fact, it's very similar to that book, with each monster being prefaced with a handful of salient points, then a stat-block (formatted just like the MM), artwork, and details of legendary and/or lair actions as appropriate. And at $50 for 400+ monsters, in hardback and full colour, it's a steal.I do have a couple of nitpicks, of course, because the book isn't quite perfect. I noticed some few cases where a word was incorrect or missing, where a sub-title wasn't bolded where it should have been... and I daresay there are at least a few errors I didn't spot. But those are quibbles. Perhaps slightly more salient, one thing I would have very much appreciated would have been a table of monster traits, similar to the one in the DMG - so that a DM building a variant on one of the monsters (or, indeed, a new monster) knew easily how the various traits should affect the CR. (Of course, there's always more that could go into a book!)Overall, though, I'm delighted with this book. And my recommendation is simple: if you're a 5e DM looking for more monsters, get this book. (If you can, get both this and &quot;Fifth Edition Foes&quot;... but if you have to choose, this is by far the better deal.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6935817, member: 22424"] [b]5 out of 5 rating for Tome of Beasts[/b] This book gave me a rather nice problem: I had already given the 5e MM a 5-star review, and this book is better. The book is pretty straightforward in both what it claims and what it delivers: this is a big book of monsters, very much in the style of the MM. In fact, it's very similar to that book, with each monster being prefaced with a handful of salient points, then a stat-block (formatted just like the MM), artwork, and details of legendary and/or lair actions as appropriate. And at $50 for 400+ monsters, in hardback and full colour, it's a steal. I do have a couple of nitpicks, of course, because the book isn't quite perfect. I noticed some few cases where a word was incorrect or missing, where a sub-title wasn't bolded where it should have been... and I daresay there are at least a few errors I didn't spot. But those are quibbles. Perhaps slightly more salient, one thing I would have very much appreciated would have been a table of monster traits, similar to the one in the DMG - so that a DM building a variant on one of the monsters (or, indeed, a new monster) knew easily how the various traits should affect the CR. (Of course, there's always more that [I]could[/I] go into a book!) Overall, though, I'm delighted with this book. And my recommendation is simple: if you're a 5e DM looking for more monsters, get this book. (If you can, get both this and "Fifth Edition Foes"... but if you have to choose, this is [I]by far[/I] the better deal.) [/QUOTE]

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