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

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

  • Animals

    Votes: 14 3.4%
  • Constructs (Libris Mechanicus)

    Votes: 75 18.3%
  • Elementals

    Votes: 37 9.0%
  • Fey

    Votes: 85 20.8%
  • Giants

    Votes: 45 11.0%
  • Humanoids

    Votes: 5 1.2%
  • Magical Beasts

    Votes: 33 8.1%
  • Monstrous Humanoids

    Votes: 22 5.4%
  • Oozes (The Goonomicon?)

    Votes: 13 3.2%
  • Outsiders

    Votes: 63 15.4%
  • Plants

    Votes: 8 2.0%
  • Vermin

    Votes: 9 2.2%

We know that they can do Fey right, thanks to my new favourite monster, the Ragewalker (that thing's a killing machine!)

I'd love to see a fey book, or a constructs book. I voted constructs, since I think it's more likely that we'll get that then a book on fey.
 

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Come to think of it, maybe WotC should stop now. Too many companies seem to feel obligated"to "complete" the monster series and the quality invariably suffers. Maybe WotC has done enough and it's time to move on to something new?...
 

Giants! I guess I've wanted more about them ever since I saw the G-series classic back when I was a brand new gamer, in the very early 80s...

And I also think it would be cool to see a Monster Manual IV - for some strange reason...
 

I voted for constructs . . . but Libris Mechanicus? No way.

Not when they could riff once more on classic D&D magic items and call it the Manual of Golems.
 

I voted for Fey, but I'd like to hedge. I want a book of creepy, spidery, unseelie fey. Like if Tony DiTerlizzi, Brian Froud, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton got together one night over a copy of Grimm's fairy tales and a bottle of absynthe and cranked out a D&D sourcebook. I want fey that will scare my players with their primordial malevolance and deceit while also beguiling the characters with their preternatural beauty...or unearthly ugliness.

Fey have been too flavourless for too long. Let's get some real iron-nails-and-crossroads fey into the D&D canon.

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A good example of what I'm after is to be found in the Hellboy story entitled "The Corpse," which is, I believe, in the book "The Chained Coffin and others."
 
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I voted for Elementals, but would also buy constructs and outsiders and would consider giants and fey. I wouldn't likely bother with any of the others.
 



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.
Let me put it this way, I don't want a whole nother book's worth of demons, devils or celestials. Modrons, formians, slaad, and other neutral outsiders could use a book, but first I'd rather see creatures that are from the Material Plane and are not created by magical experiments. I just think those are easier to get use out of in a non-plane-traveling campaign (and I assume most games don't constantly deal with other planes).
 

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