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Why A GM Can Never Have Too Many Bestiaries
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7690686" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>How do you use it?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Curious. Achaierai, Adherers, Aleax, Algoids, Al-mi'raj and Astral Searchers then? The only entry in the A's I've ever used are Apparitions. In the last 30 years, I bet I've used less than 20% of the original Fiend Folio monsters in any game, and I can't say that I've ever encountered Achaierai, Adherers, Aleax, Algoids, Al-mi'raj or Astral Searchers either.</p><p></p><p>I guess my tl;dr version is that I've always felt the more Bestiaries you own, the more returns diminish from owning more of them. Like, I can see reskinning an Algoid for some purpose or another, but the odds of using any of the rest of the 'a's are pretty darn small.</p><p></p><p>UPDATE: Full list, Fiend Folio creatures have been 'used' in the sense of planned encounter or entry in a random encounter table. Starred entries were actually encountered in the game.</p><p></p><p>Apparition*, Giant Bat*, Berbalang, Bullywug, Caryatid Column*, Coffer Corpse*, Crypt Thing*, Dark Creeper, Doombat*, Drow Elf*, Ettercap, Firedrake*, Forlarran, Gibberling, Grell, Huecuva*, Iron Cobra*, Lizard King, Mephit*, Phantasm*, Phantom Stalker, Sandman, Slaad*, Yellow Musk Creeper.</p><p></p><p>The list of things I would use but haven't had the chance is probably not longer than what I have used. So even for a book that's been around that long, depending on how you define 'use', I've only used 10-20% of the book.</p><p></p><p>Part of that is in that in a typical session, I will have as many or more homebrewed monsters than ones I took from someone else. So for example, the last session had dryads, phantasms (now treated largely as a Pathfinder haunt), juju zombies, pseudo natural templated giant piranhas, and a homebrewed undead warmachine and a homebrewed undead surgeon. Next session will probably have something along the lines of giant vampire bats, a green dragon, a quadrone, and homebrewed undead crane, plus some wandering encounters I haven't fully anticipated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7690686, member: 4937"] How do you use it? Curious. Achaierai, Adherers, Aleax, Algoids, Al-mi'raj and Astral Searchers then? The only entry in the A's I've ever used are Apparitions. In the last 30 years, I bet I've used less than 20% of the original Fiend Folio monsters in any game, and I can't say that I've ever encountered Achaierai, Adherers, Aleax, Algoids, Al-mi'raj or Astral Searchers either. I guess my tl;dr version is that I've always felt the more Bestiaries you own, the more returns diminish from owning more of them. Like, I can see reskinning an Algoid for some purpose or another, but the odds of using any of the rest of the 'a's are pretty darn small. UPDATE: Full list, Fiend Folio creatures have been 'used' in the sense of planned encounter or entry in a random encounter table. Starred entries were actually encountered in the game. Apparition*, Giant Bat*, Berbalang, Bullywug, Caryatid Column*, Coffer Corpse*, Crypt Thing*, Dark Creeper, Doombat*, Drow Elf*, Ettercap, Firedrake*, Forlarran, Gibberling, Grell, Huecuva*, Iron Cobra*, Lizard King, Mephit*, Phantasm*, Phantom Stalker, Sandman, Slaad*, Yellow Musk Creeper. The list of things I would use but haven't had the chance is probably not longer than what I have used. So even for a book that's been around that long, depending on how you define 'use', I've only used 10-20% of the book. Part of that is in that in a typical session, I will have as many or more homebrewed monsters than ones I took from someone else. So for example, the last session had dryads, phantasms (now treated largely as a Pathfinder haunt), juju zombies, pseudo natural templated giant piranhas, and a homebrewed undead warmachine and a homebrewed undead surgeon. Next session will probably have something along the lines of giant vampire bats, a green dragon, a quadrone, and homebrewed undead crane, plus some wandering encounters I haven't fully anticipated. [/QUOTE]
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