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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ASEO" data-source="post: 2009835" data-attributes="member: 12224">Tome Of Horrors - 5 Superb - deserves a 6 on a 1-5 scale~323 page Hardback$29.95, but I'll admit that I got mine at a 20% Discount at my local game store's Annual Holiday Sale.     Let me start out by saying that I have been playing D&D since '79 and that I own every First Edition product ever printed.  That being said, I made the transition to Second Edition fairly easily and was still able to use my first edition stuff with very little work.  Then came Third Edition...While I love Third Edition, I was a little dismayed that it was now much harder to use my first edition modules.  The creature conversions were among the harder things to have to go through and convert.  Sure some of the creatures were found in the new 3Ed Monster Manual, MM2 and Creatures of Faerun, but many were still missing.  Maybe that was part of the marketing; get people to buy new 3Ed modules instead of using their old ones.  I did a lot of buying...but I still long to run the old modules, I just don't have time to do all the creature conversions.      Now, I don't have to.   Necromancer Games has released a product that has done all the conversions of all the creatures that appeared in the first edition Monster Manual, Monster Manual II, and Fiend Folio that didn't appear in 3ed.  At least not until now.  You get over 300 classic monsters plus over 100 are brand new monsters.       This is the first product since The Gryphon's Legacy by Gaslight Press that made me wish that the rating scale went above 5.  On the scale 1-5 this product is a 6+!      This book is everything I ever expected a Monster Book to be and more.  Sure, the art isn't color, but I think most of it is better than that in the 3Ed MM, 3Ed MMII.  Its black and white images are reminiscent of the first edition products, but I think better that that which appeared in the 1Ed Monster books.  What's more, many of the old creatures seemed new because there are illustrations of many creatures that didn't have illustration in the 1Ed books.  Now you can see the Cave Moray, Transposer, and Floating Eye.     Here is the Ant Lion I remember from the Slaver's Stockade. The Cave Fisher from the Slave Lord's Dungeon.  The Giant Crayfish from the famous Moat house. The Boalisk, Dun Pudding, Froghemoth, Marlgoyle, and more from Tsojcanth's Lost Caverns. The Vegrpygmy from the crashed spaceship in the Barrier Peaks.  I could go on and on.  Truly in Necromancer Games the first edition feel is very alive and kicking.     Additionally there are several templates for Foo Creatures, Thessalmonsters, Therianthropes, Spectral Trolls, Slime Zombies, Skeleton Warriors, Dire creatures...(you want that Dire Sloth, or Dire Giant Hamster...It's yours), Chaos Beasts, Animal Lords and Abomination animal composites.   Within these pages were the creatures I searched in vain for in other 3Ed products like the Aerial Servant, Apparition, Axe Beak, Doombat, Boggart, Bonesnapper, Brownie, Caryatid Column, Crypt Thing, It's got Daemons, Demons and Devils. There's the Shadow Demon that gave my party such a hard time in the Dragon Magazine published adventure Forest of Darkness.  There’s the Dire Corby, Disenchanter, Faerie Dragon, Eye of the Deep, Fire Lizard, Flind, Gas Spore, Gloomwing, Grippli, Haunt, Hippocampus, Huecuva, Iron Cobra, Kech, Kelpie, Korred, Leprechaun, Lurker Above, Lurker Below, Mite, Mongrelman, Muckdweller, Mudman, Necrophididus, Nereid, Ogrillion, Orog, Pech, Phantom and Phantom Stalker.  Piercer, Quickling, Rot Grub, Sandling from the Slave Lord's Dungeon, Shedu, Slithering Tracker, Soul Eater from the very old Desert Nomad Expert Adventure, Sprite, Tentamort, Thunder Beast, Trapper, Ice, Rock, and two-headed Trolls, Vampire Roses, Volt, Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing, Yellow Musk Creeper, Yeti and Juju Zombies (not to be confused by those tasty candies, juju bees).     This book rocks! You get all those favorites Plus new creatures to spring on your players like the Barrow Wight, Bhuta (the spirit of a murdered person that clings to the mortal world and inhabits it's dead body seeking to slay it's killers), Bloody Bones, Bone Sucker...Jack-O-Lantern...Well hell, there are over 100 of these new beasties, and they are all so cool.        Once again this is one of the very best D20 products that I have ever seen and on a scale of 1-5 I definitely give it a 6.  This is the best Monster book I have ever seen!ASEO out</blockquote>

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