Would a MM like this interest anyone else?

[Tsyr]

Just wondering, 'cause it's something I've always wanted to see...

A MM full of "classic" monsters... By which I don't mean good old tolkien-esq orcs, but rather, monsters out of classic literature... Grendel, old-style trolls, goblins, trow, gremlins, etc. How to deal with the fairy-tale-esq nature of some of these beings. How to run a campaign centered around them. Things like that. And preferably, illustrated with pseudo-woodblock-style illustrations.

Am I the only one who would be *really* happy to see that produced? Or is there one, maybe, and I just don't know about it?

 

[Crothian]

Ya, that would be really good.

 

[JeffB]

Beasts of Lejend for Gary's LA game is basically that...very much "real world" mythology/fairytale based.

Of course you would have to convert them....

The old DragonQuest RPG from SPI (and later TSR for the 3rd edition fo that game) monster section was also real world mythology based..Rolemaster too, to a certain extent.

But Beasts of Lejend is moreso than anything else I have seen

 

[rounser]

Actually, not really...unless it had a darn good editor. Lots of monsters out of mythology are just kind of lame, and deserve to be only very loosely based on the originals for a D&D version...perhaps only borrowing the name, and a trait or two.

In other words, the approach we already have taken in the D&D MMs.

 

[blackshirt5]

AS long as they don't mess it up like FFE did with the Encyclopedia of Demons and Devils(which had kind of the same idea) I'd be all for it.

 

[megamania]

Heck yeah, especially in a horror world like Ravenloft where superstition is often worse than an orc.

 

[kenjib]

I think the idea has lots of potential.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Most definitely! I love the idea of Mythology d20 (particularly Celtic and Norse). Things like Slaine and Avalanche's Celtic Age come close.

And I'll have to check out Beasts of Lejend.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Lots of monsters out of mythology are just kind of lame, and deserve to be only very loosely based on the originals for a D&D version...perhaps only borrowing the name, and a trait or two.

I have a version of Grendel floating around somewhere on my HD that's kinda like this. First, I made a hag connection based on Grendel's mom in the story; then I built off the Ravenloft take on hags, which is a template applied to female spellcasters. My grendel was what happens in the rare instances a male becomes a hag (it's almost uncontrollably violent). I'll find it and put it on the homebrew Creature Catalog board.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't know why woodcut illustrations would help the book any, though.

Other than that, yeah, I"m interested.