What monster books have you found useful or are buying?

[Albert_Fish]

Ok, i am interested in what monster books for 3E ( other than the almost required MM) have you bought? From Deadlands, to Scarredlands and all the books in between. Which ones have you found useful, which have been failures?

Let me know what you think soi can decide what i like and maybe help otherrs out here.
Heck evena more or less conprehensive lsit of monster books would be nice even if it doesnt contain reviews.
Thanks for your help,
Chuck

 

[ForceUser]

Monster Manual - useful
Creature Collections 1 & 2 - semi-useful
Monstrer of Faerun - semi-useful
Various monsters from books such as Manual of the Planes, Oriental Adventures, etc - useful

Looking forward to Monster Manual II and Fiend Folio. A lot.

[EDIT: Oh, a caviat. I run a homebrew. I'm sure MoF and the CCs would be more useful if I ran those settings.]

 

[Avatar]

I like Monsters of Faerun. It's got great monsters.

 

[Crothian]

MM: I use it the most as it has the common Monsters in it.
CC and CC2: I like them both for monsters thaty are off the beaten path so to speak. Some are a little odd, but the players are not familikar with these books. It makes for a good amount of surprise.
MoF: It has some good things, but I wasn't all that impressed with it
Armies of the Abyss, Legions of Hell: While they both have good content, I've yet to use them only due to not needing any outsiders in anything I've run yet.

I'm planning on buying MM2 and the Monsternomicon.

 

[Phowett]

Well, right now I'm using MM, PHB, MotP, OA, and FRCS. I also find some of the monsters in Creatures of Rokugan good. Right now I'm saving up the mullah for MMII, Monsternomicon, Liber Bestiarus, and Monsters of Faerun.

I've got a question for those of you have seen the Diablo II books. How are the monsters in that book? Are they handled good? I don't care about the setting, but I'm hoping it has interesting monsters like D1&2 had, like the blunderbore and claw vipers. And which books exactly have the monsters in them?

 

[NiTessine]

Everything WotC is worth it. Haven't looked much into monster books by other publishers, but the reviews section will help you on that. I can tell you that Mystic Eye Games' Nightmares & Dreams books are good, but that's about it.
However... I'm SO getting Tome of Horrors!

 

[Renaissance Man]

The MM is indespensible. I run a re-vamped Planescape campaign, so the monsters from Manual of the Planes get a lot of use as well. Still kicking myself for not picking up a copy of Green Ronin's Legions of Hell...

Very much looking forward to MMII, the Book of Vile Darkness, and Tome of Horrors. (Scott Greene has unwittingly spawned his own religion. Creature Catalog roolz!)

 

[Sammael99]

I have not used a single monster out the MM stuff since I started GMing 3E, and frankly, I don't see myself doing so in the foreseeable future. There's SOOOOO much stuff in there already...

 

[Olive]

I have not used a single monster out the MM stuff since I started GMing 3E, and frankly, I don't see myself doing so in the foreseeable future. There's SOOOOO much stuff in there already...

so what monsters do you use if you don't use the monster manual?

 

[ForceUser]

I thin Sammy meant to say he hasn't used anything BUT the MM since 3E started. And I agree, it's chock-full of TPK goodness.

Properly advanced, of course. Did you know that when you advance monkeys you get killer monkeys? It's true!