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Originally posted here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/03/monstrous-mondays-ad-2nd-ed-monstrous_21.html
Today will cover the "others" in my Monstrous Compendium collections, but not ones I used regularly. Again the time these came out money was tight for a college kid needing to buy school supplies, food, and pay rent so choices were made. Ravenloft won, Dark Sun and Spelljammer lost.
Thankfully these days I can buy PDFs much cheaper and with little to no concern for storage space. Plus I have recently begun to explore Spelljammer and I have found it to be rather fun.
For these reviews, I am considering the PDFs only.
MC12 Monstrous Compendium Dark Sun Appendix: Terrors of the Desert
PDF 96 pages, Color cover art, black & white interior art, $9.99. 92 monsters.
Moreso than any other campaign world, Dark Sun is the most foreign to me. I like the idea of it. I have even since adopted some of the notions of it into my regular game world. Plus there is a solid message here; exploit the environment and eventually, you will screw it up for everyone. But many of the monsters are very new.
This MC does adopt a different accent color for the pages. A nice touch that again I would have liked to have seen for all the others. Pretty much all of these creatures are new for me. I would like to use them in a desert game, but I think a few might be a bit of work to remove them from their background.
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