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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6142072" data-attributes="member: 8863">I don't think I've ever seen anyone priase the Monstrous Compendium.The concept was interesting.  One consideration behind 2e seemed to be reducing the book count that 1e had gotten to at the end of its life, and the MC was probably central to that -- a DM only needed to bring the various MC pages for a given session to the table rather than 1e's MM, MM2, FF, and whatever other books had monsters like probably OA and MotP.  Of course, 2e's book load absolutely exploded in core alone wthout even getting into the settings.  And the binder itself has a reputation for flimsiness, the pages were apparently prone to ripping, can't keep anything alphebetized etc.  The fact that TSR replaced it with the Monstrous Manual at the height of their "let's not bother with customer surveys" phase speaks volumes as to just how unpopular that binder must have been.</blockquote>