Would you spend $100 for a monster book?

[the Jester]

It would have to be somethin' very special to entice me to buy it... color, to start with.

I would not buy it without a good chance to page through it and spot check some stat blocks. For $100 you better edit well, dammit!!

 

[Kanegrundar]

My impression from the article is that it might not be a huge number of monsters. However, it seems there will be extensive detail (anatomy pictures, monsters in habitat, etc).

As someone moderately interested in this product, I hope you're wrong. I could care less about a ton of biological, societal, and cultural information. Give me the stats and the basics. Throw in some plot hooks, maybe some creature-specific items, and some knowledge check examples and be done with it. 90% of the creatures I use are there to be slain. I don't need to know the gestation period of a Jelly-bellied Snout Smurf!!!

Kane

 

[Yeoman99]

No, not, never. At that bloated price it would start to set a dangerous precedent in the market place if perceived to be a success. Hell this hobby is expensive enough at the best of times..

Forget anatomical pictures - for that price i'd expect them delivered stuffed in a glass case!

 

[IronWolf]

I doubt I would spend this much money on a monster book. I already have monster books and they are keeping me pretty busy! Of course if this book was receiving rave reviews across the board I might be tempted.

 

[Sejs]

I wouldn't buy it sight unseen, I'd have to be able to peruse at least a sample copy before making the decision and it would have to absolutly blow my socks clean off before I'd consider such a purchase.


If it didn't impress me so much that I'd want to have its babies, then no. I wouldn't spend $100 on a monster book.

 

[Ace]

I rarely if ever use the monster manual I have much less need a $100 monster book so no way

Unless my income went into the high 6 figure range in which case I wouldn't care and I would just buy everything

 

[haiiro]

Yes, if it was good -- I love monster books.

There's a chance I'd buy it just for the novelty/gotta have it factor, but realistically I would only buy it if it was as useful as three monster books. For me, the obvious basis for comparison would be MM I, II & III: cool critters, high production values, solid editing and rules, very useful books.

I haven't looked at Mongoose's stuff in the past couple of years, because the early stuff seemed so rushed and poorly edited. That may have changed, but as this is a Mongoose product I would definitely approach it with skepticism.

 

[Mark]

I might, depending on the monsters within.

Within the book?


Or you...?

 

[BOZ]

$100? maybe if it has 1,000 pages and isn't just a bunch of things i already have...

 

[ThirdWizard]

Maybe if it included:

Really good monsters (inspirational for adventures, not rehashes)
Lots of really good monsters
A wide range of creature types, CRs, etc
Fabulous art
An art CD
Index cards of each monster
A bunch of minis
Website support (adventures showing off the monsters, advanced monsters, etc)

Hmm probably need more... Variety is good, and that's around three books' worth of cost. I love monster books, but I want other books too. Since I live on a budget, I'd be giving up other things, so it would have to be worth more than three books to me.