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Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual: Roleplaying Game Core Rules, 4th Edition
by Wizards RPG Team
from Wizards of the Coast

Features:

• Core Rulebook: The Monster Manual is the third of three core rulebooks required to play the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.
• Quick and easy play: The improved page layout and presentation enables novice and established players to learn and understand the new D&D rules quickly.
• D&D Insider: The Monster Manual will receive enhanced online support at www.dndinsider.com.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

• A book of miniatures / card game stat blocks
  This product is purely a straightforward down to the point book of creatures with stats, nothing more. There is hardly any interesting tidbits about the monsters and their behaviors. No ecology or terrain types or lair fluff and barely any aquatic monsters which irked me.
  The tactics are clearly laid out. While the stat blocks are interesting in keeping the players on their toes the creatures themselves are more like video game automatons with push button type functions (much like the player... more info

• no longer D&D
  The other reviews are right. This is no longer D&D, it's simply a board game. A board game involving stats. The monster manual has virtually no actual description of the monsters. No ecology, no habits, no history... just numbers. I was looking forward to this... extremely disappointed. Basically all I paid for is a bunch of pretty pictures. The 4th edition should have been released as a separate product from D&D. Maybe as an add on. If you don't have the time to play a real D&D game, you could... more info

• Try again WOC rolled a 1 on this one
  I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the first boxed set and I have looked forward to each new version and this is no exception. Each new version has tried to improve on the core Dungeon and Dragon experience until now. This new version is not really a new version but an entirely new game with very little of the flavor or magic feeling of the original. Now it feels more like a version of WOW or another of the online games. I am not knocking the online games they can be great if that is what you... more info

• The best of the 4e core books, but still leaves me feeling a bit sour
  This is the best of the 4e core books for me, but still left me feeling a bit sour.
  First the good. In the tradition of the 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual, this book dispenses with lengthy descriptions of monsters and instead focuses on stats. Only in rare circumstances do we get lengthy prose regarding a monster's motivations outside of being fodder for the adventurers to beat up on. Filling in the details is left to the DM. The new stat blocks are straightforward and much easier to use than... more info

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