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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7670636" data-attributes="member: 18182">I was both (slightly) annoyed and (greatly) loved Monsters of Faerun, and I although I don't look at it the same way you do, I agree it would have been better to fold those monsters into one of the hardback Monster Manual releases. The handful of truly FR-specific monsters really aren't all that tied to the Realms and work fine as &quot;standard&quot; D&amp;D monsters, i.e. the &quot;Beast of Xvim&quot; could just as easily drop the association with Xvim and be called the &quot;Beast of Random Evil God&quot;. And of course, most of the monsters in that book WERE &quot;standard&quot; D&amp;D creatures!But trade dress, logos, and titles don't bother me, and I never wasted much energy on bemoaning FR's &quot;appropriation&quot; of many classic D&amp;D baddies. The monsters in the book were fun, the artwork was great, the print quality was superb . . . only downside was the skinny page count and softcover, but I didn't let those get me down (much) either. I was happy to add Monsters of Faerun to my Monster Manual collection!Really, monster book or adventure path . . . all you gotta do is ignore the FR names (or repurpose them) and you're good to go!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7670636, member: 18182"] I was both (slightly) annoyed and (greatly) loved Monsters of Faerun, and I although I don't look at it the same way you do, I agree it would have been better to fold those monsters into one of the hardback Monster Manual releases. The handful of truly FR-specific monsters really aren't all that tied to the Realms and work fine as "standard" D&D monsters, i.e. the "Beast of Xvim" could just as easily drop the association with Xvim and be called the "Beast of Random Evil God". And of course, most of the monsters in that book WERE "standard" D&D creatures! But trade dress, logos, and titles don't bother me, and I never wasted much energy on bemoaning FR's "appropriation" of many classic D&D baddies. The monsters in the book were fun, the artwork was great, the print quality was superb . . . only downside was the skinny page count and softcover, but I didn't let those get me down (much) either. I was happy to add Monsters of Faerun to my Monster Manual collection! Really, monster book or adventure path . . . all you gotta do is ignore the FR names (or repurpose them) and you're good to go! [/QUOTE]

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