What d20 Monster Books Have You Used?

[Ryan Henry]

Monster Books

Listed in order of use frequency...

1. MM
2. Tome of Horrors
3. MM2
4. Fiend Folio
5. Tome of Horrors 2
6. Creature Collection (Revised)

I've been running the Shackled City as of late, so I've been using lots of creatures from the Fiend Folio and MM2, but I've been using the stats in the hardcover instead of the individual monster books.

 

[Gansk]

In the Battle of All Alignments, we use:

MM
MM II
MM III
Fiend Folio
Manual of the Planes
Planar Handbook
Miniatures Handbook
Book Of Vile Darkness
Book of Exalted Deeds
Libris Mortis
Lords of Madness
Frostburn
Sandstorm
Draconomicon
Expanded Psionics Handbook
WoTC website
Creature Catalog

 

[JVisgaitis]

I have their epic one and I love the very good full color art. I no longer buy print books but left this one on my amazon wish list for gift ideas for family. I wish Inner Circle (the publisher) would turn the whole thing into a single big pdf instead of just the smaller breakup by CR that is slowly being released.

The problem with a full PDF is the files that I have are over 1.5 GB. Since we did all full color and did so many illustrations, its hard to keep the file size down. We have the next 5 Digital Denizens ready to go. They are going through final pass now.

We may release a PDF of the full book, but only if I can get it down to a respectable size. By the way, we only have a few cases left of the print version. If you want it, its only $20 on our website. And don't be surprised if you see some new monsters from us in 2006...

 

[Alzrius]

I have their epic one and I love the very good full color art.

Speaking of which, Legends of Avadnu recently received its first staff review over on RPGnow. It scored a well-deserved 5 out of 5 stars!

 

[Pants]

I forgot some books off of my list

From most used to least used:
Monster Manual 3.5
Monster Manual II
Monster Manual III
Creature Collection II
Fiend Folio
Book of Vile Darkness
Libris Mortis (Honestly, I give this book a lot of crap, but I use sooooo much from it!)
Creature Catalogue
Draconomicon
Tome of Horrors
Dragon Magazine (although, once I start up my new Greyhawk campaign, the Demonomicon articles will be much used!)
Lords of Madness

Books that I haven't used but I really want to:
Advanced Bestiary
Book of Fiends
Expanded Psionics Handbook
Frostburn
Monsternomicon
Denizens of Avadnu
Dungeon Magazine

 

[DM JOE]

Well first of all I got to admit I love monsters of all shapes and sizes and the more the merrier.

I got a ton of monster books and i hope one day to use all the monsters in them.
Here is a quick list

Monster Manual 1,2,3
Fiend Folio
Creature Collection 1,2,3
Tome of Horrors 1,2
Kingdom of Kalamar: Dangerous Denizens
Ravenloft 3E: Denizens of Darkness
Creatures of Rokogen
Monster of Faerun
Monster Encyclopedia 1,2
Midnight: Minions of the Shadow
Legends and Lairs: Necromatic Lore
Legends and Lairs: Elemental Lore
Legends and Lairs: Twisted Lore
Legends and Lairs: Draconic Lore
Minions
Legacy of Dragons
Nightmares and Dreams 1,2
Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts
Creature of Freeport
Fantasy Beastiary
Book of Fiends
Bestiary of Lorem
Monster Handbook(monster supplement)
Advanced Bestiary(Book of templates)
Draconomicon
Libius mortis
Lords of Madness

 

[Cam Banks]

Books I use in my Dragonlance campaign:

MM1
MM2
FF
Dragonlance Campaign Setting
Age of Mortals sourcebook
Bestiary of Krynn
Draconomicon

That's about it!

Cheers,
Cam

 

[johnsemlak]

One PDF series I found useful was EN Critters (from EN Publishing). Each PDF has monsters from a focused terrain type or locale, a format which I find a very useful.

Others I've used include Tome of Horrors, MMII, Fiend Folio, and a few others.

 

[Psion]

In the last campaign arc, I think these got use:

MM I, II (not so much III)
Fiend Folio
XPH
CC I, II, and a few things from III (III's not my favorite)
Tome of Horrors I (yay! for revised) and II
Advanced Bestiary
Complete Minions
Penumbra Fantasy Bestiary
Book of Fiends
Book of Templates Deluxe Edition
Draconic Lore
Necromantic Lore
Creatures of Freeport
Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts
Monsters of the Mind
Hyperconscious
Denizens of Avadnu