Would you spend $100 for a monster book?

[Razuur]

For me to spend $100 the book would have to:

1. Be produced by a company I trust to give me a high-quality product. Companies like Privateer or Green Ronin are examples of people I would trust to do a good job on something like this.

2. Beautiful.

3. Packed with unique, interesting monsters. A 50-page section of variant goblins is NOT what I'm looking for.*

4. Well designed. Such as every monsters fits exactly on a page and/or spread.

5. Heavily indexed, cross-linked, and usable.


* NOTE: I have no clue what's in Mongoose's book. I just made up the goblin bit as an example of what I don't want.

Exactly. In a nutshell, if it fulfilled all of these qualifications, I would buy it. Took the words right out of my typing fingers.

Razuur

 

[philreed]

Exactly. In a nutshell, if it fulfilled all of these qualifications, I would buy it. Took the words right out of my typing fingers.

Want them back? I'm finished with those words -- in that exact sequence -- for now. I may ask for them again later, though.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

My kneejerk reaction is: Absu****lutely not.

My anti-kneejerk reaction is: I'd have to see it first, but still probably not.

 

[JamesDJarvis]

If individual entries were all about as good or better then the Monsternomicon and would fit virtually any campaign I might indeed shell out a $100.00 for a 1000 page monster book. I'd certainly have to spend time sitting down with it before I spent those bucks.