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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1764131" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>So, i'm gonna be running a D&D game soon. So far, i'm going to be using Arcana Unearthed, Book of Drawbacks and Distinctions, and Artificer's Handbook. Now, obviously, i can fall back on the D20SRD for monsters. But i'm seriously thinking about grabbing a monster book, just so i can be lazy, and because really none of the monsters in the D20SRD grab me--and i can pretty much fake humanoids without any monster book. </p><p> </p><p> Now, the reason for the title of this thread: the used bookstore currently has copies of Tome of Horrors, Creature Collection, and Creature Collection II. If it were going to be your only source of monsters for a D&D game, which of these would you pick? Why?</p><p> </p><p> Oh, also, does the Diamond Throne setting have much in the way of monsters or magic items? Would it be a viable choice, without a copy of MM? I'm not likely to use the setting <em>per se</em>--i'm thinking of grabbing the racial and cultural tropes from AU, grabbing my maps from Al Qadim, and winging it.</p><p> </p><p> Or, i might just grab the new Goodman Games book of plant monsters, and make Evil Alien Plants(TM) the main baddies for the campaign, or just pull out some monster book i already have (Book of the Wyrm, Earthdawn, almost every volume of the Monstrous Compendium, Dark Conspiracy, Book of Ebon Bindings--whatever). So sell me on these, if you want me to buy one of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1764131, member: 10201"] So, i'm gonna be running a D&D game soon. So far, i'm going to be using Arcana Unearthed, Book of Drawbacks and Distinctions, and Artificer's Handbook. Now, obviously, i can fall back on the D20SRD for monsters. But i'm seriously thinking about grabbing a monster book, just so i can be lazy, and because really none of the monsters in the D20SRD grab me--and i can pretty much fake humanoids without any monster book. Now, the reason for the title of this thread: the used bookstore currently has copies of Tome of Horrors, Creature Collection, and Creature Collection II. If it were going to be your only source of monsters for a D&D game, which of these would you pick? Why? Oh, also, does the Diamond Throne setting have much in the way of monsters or magic items? Would it be a viable choice, without a copy of MM? I'm not likely to use the setting [i]per se[/i]--i'm thinking of grabbing the racial and cultural tropes from AU, grabbing my maps from Al Qadim, and winging it. Or, i might just grab the new Goodman Games book of plant monsters, and make Evil Alien Plants(TM) the main baddies for the campaign, or just pull out some monster book i already have (Book of the Wyrm, Earthdawn, almost every volume of the Monstrous Compendium, Dark Conspiracy, Book of Ebon Bindings--whatever). So sell me on these, if you want me to buy one of them. [/QUOTE]
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