What should the next "Monster Type" book from WotC be?

[TrycadeTycoombant]

OUTSIDERS!!!

I think that they are the most authentic of the monster types. They evoke such a cool feeling.

 

[DM_Fiery_Fist]

I voted for fey, without a doubt. Though the Monster Manual has a trend toward portraying them as mere tricksters and pranksters, the fey can occupy a wide variety of roles. Raven Crowking has an excellent thread on faeries which shows how they can be used to great effect in a campaign.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a book on plants - there's a ton of options available in that genre as well and it could add a lot of flavor to wilderness adventures if done properly.

 

[jeffh]

I'm somewhat surprised with the poll results. I thought Outsiders would just seem like the obvious choice to most people, though I personally went with Constructs. But so far, more people have agreed with my actual choice than my "obvious" choice, and Fey - which I thought were a rather unpopular type - are leading the pack.

(And yes, Fey would also be a good one to see.)

 

[Greylock]

To be honest, once I got around to voting I went Elementals. There have been some good resources coming out on the fae, so I can wait. Has anyone taken a look at the new Faerie book that came out a few weeks ago from Troll Lords? The cover is just to twee for me to buy it based on what little I've read.

 

[danbuter]

I'd like to see a book on the fey. Particularly if it went into all the old legends. They were NOT nice, not in any meaning of the word.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Fey are underrepresented in 3.5 and pretty essential to a "fantasy" game. They may or may nnot be evil or even morally aligned at all. They may be weak or pwerful, extraplanar or living in nature, historically based or new and original. There's a lot of upside to a fey book.

Constructs would also be a nice, but I think there's already a good amount of aupport for constructs and the need is not as great.
Outsiders have been done to death. They're in the planar books, the alignment books, and there are many in the monster books. We don't need a whole other "outsider" book (though some of the neutral ones could use treatment, as well as the elementals).
Giants (although "giant" should just be another subtype of humanoid) are also fantasy staples and could use a book, but they aren't as important as other types.

 

[Glyfair]

We don't need a whole other "outsider" book (though some of the neutral ones could use treatment, as well as the elementals).

As I stated before, I can see some call for an "outsider" book, but I think it should be last since outsiders are overrepresented right now. However, when such a book is done, I think it should stay away from the obvious. I think it should, at best, brush on demons, devils, archons and the like. It should focus on the neutral outsiders and the good/evil outsiders that don't belong to a group that's been covered in books like BoVD or BoED.

After that, I would expect WotC could do books focusing on the "popular" planes. Maybe a combination sourcebook/adventure. Have a sourcebook on the Abyss with an adventure or two as tied-in to show how to use it for various levels.

 

[Knightfall]

Monstrous Humanoids... Centaur, Derro, Doppelganger, Gargoyle, Grimlock, Hag, Harpy, Kuo-toa, Medusa, Minotaur, Sahuagin, Yuan-ti.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yay!

Fey are beating constructs now. I would love a new Fey sourcebook... that would be very cool. I really disagree that Fey can only be used for annoyances or victims... they're versatile enough to be used in just about any role, plus they're all tied together by a really cool flavour and backstory.

Very true! In my main campaign, the dark sidhe had an ancient empire in the dark jungle that was consumed by the shadow that it harnessed. Thanks to reincarnations, there are nymph and half-nymph characters in the party. There is a much-more-serious pixie Ninja/Assassin cohort.

In my post-Arthurian campaign, fey come up even more often. I've even homebrewed tons of different half-fey templates and bloodlines for different sorts of fey (not all of them get pixie wings like in Fiend Folio, darn it ).

 

[BOZ]

i'm actually kind of pleasantly surprised to see Fey so high on the popularity list. if such a book did come out, there had damn well better be a decent number of dangerous and/or dark fey.