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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2009708" data-attributes="member: 18387">When I bought this book, I spent fifteen minutes flipping through it and cackling with glee.  This book, quite simply, has everything.  The first D&D books I ever read were the first edition Monster Manual and Field Folio.  My first game, therefore, I was using my out of character knowledge like mad.  DM:  "You enter the cavern.  The ceiling is studded with stalactities."Me:  "Watch out for piercers!"DM:  *Killer glare*Thus I have fond memories of those critters.  Now I get to see all of the ones that didn't make the 3e Monster Manuals in their new 3e glory.  For all those that complain there are not enough fey or plants in the current books, this will hopefully satisfy you.  Plants galore, including the hangman tree, juniper bloodsucker, algoid, yellow musk creeper, and mandroga.  Fey include the forlarren, leprechaun, atomie, and brownie.  Also oozes, oozes, oozes!  Dun pudding, white pudding, stun jelly, mustard jelly, crystal jelly, olive slime, the slithering tracker and more.  Also hazards.  Green slime not enough for you?  How about russet mold, purple moss, memory moss, and symbiotic jelly?  And everyone's favorite DM aid, the Hound of Ill Omen?Lots of new animals, which druids will jump for joy for.  Blood hawk, giant carbie (big aggressive fish), dragonnel, and the giant hamster.Many undead, including the huecuva and crypt thing.More outsiders than you can shake a stick at.  For those that complained about the demon lords and devil princes in the Book of Vile Darkness, you might find the stats here more to your taste.  Much higher CRs all around.Overall I found nearly every single monster that I had missed from all my prior monster book purchases.In addition, several humanoid races include PC information, including ECLs.   Very useful.  Template include the abomination (lets you stick two animals together), a dire template, and a few zombie templates.  There is an appendix that includes a CR summary, but not a type summary.  With more monsters than either of the Monster Manuals for the same 30$ price tag, this book offers a great deal of bang for the buck.</blockquote>

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