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The Monster Manual (MM) is the primary bestiary sourcebook for monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, first published in 1977 by TSR.The Monster Manual was the first hardcover D&D book and includes monsters derived from mythology and folklore, as well as creatures created specifically for D&D.
The first book containing monsters, one of the essential elements of the game, [1] to be published was the Monster Manual, released along with the other two "core" rulebooks. Wizards of the Coast officially discontinued the 3rd Edition line upon the release of a revision, known as version 3.5, in 2003, with the Monster Manual reprinted for the ...
Creatures 3 is the third game in the Creatures a-life game series made by Creature Labs. In this installment, the Shee have left Albia in a spaceship, the Shee Ark, to search for a more spherical world. The Ark was abandoned by the Shee because a meteor hit the ship, but the infrastructure still remains in working order.
Brinsley quipped that the book "is basically a Monster Manual for the D&D game". [2] He noted that the book was produced in the UK, and believed that unlike TSR UK's last attempt at a monster book, "the disappointing Fiend Folio with its many one-use creatures", there was a lot in this book to recommend it. [2]
Chris de Hoog, for CGMagazine, called Monsters of the Multiverse a "very straightforward book" and that it "isn't the most flashy or compelling book". [ 29 ] de Hoog wrote that "many of the creatures listed within are reprinted from other sources, like the similar Volo's Guide to Monsters or Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes , but these reprints have ...
The final major Creatures release was Docking Station, an Internet-based add-on to Creatures 3, released free of charge on the Creatures web site on March 27, 2001. [43] [73] It was intended as a way to sell Creatures 3 (the player could dock the worlds of the two games together, hence the name "Docking" Station) and extra packs of Norn breeds.
Stephan Wieck reviewed Monster Compendium Volume One in White Wolf #17 (1989) and stated that "Of the three new 2nd Edition books, the monster compendium is the one that I feel improves the most over its predecessor." [15] Berin Kinsman reviewed Terrors of the Desert in the Mar–Apr 1993 issue of White Wolf. [16]
ISBN 1-55634-318-3. —presents six versions of Earth possessing alternate histories to that of our own world, as well as a number of less-detailed settings scattered throughout the book in sidebars: for instance, "Gernsback" is a parallel, inspired by 1930s science fiction adventure stories (it is named for the editor Hugo Gernsback) has as ...