Monty Cook Presents: The Iron Heroes Bestiary (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Iron Heroes Setting)
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4 Stars Praiseworthy
If your looking for just another book of monsters to bamboozle your players then you will be doing this book an inservice. Designed to be used with Iron Heroes, the Iron Heroes Bestiary is a valuable guide for incorporating monstrous foes into your Iron Heroes campaign.
While the bulk of the book details 34 monsters, its benefits don’t end there.
Chapter 1 provides you with information on how to select monsters in the magic poor setting of Iron Heroes, weighing up special attacks, normal attacks, sustainability and other factors when judging when a monster from other sources would make a good challenge.
Chapter 2 includes three villian classes. Villians classes were first introduced in Mastering Iron Heroes and are essntially like a character class but allow you to make an opponent (be it creature or NPC) with any CR required. Rather handy if you find making leveled NPCs rather tedious.
Chapter 3 has all the monsters. Now while some contain information specific to the Sword Lands setting introduced in the Iron Heroes book, it would not take much to incorporate them into other settings, something which I intend to. As a bonus some of the monsters even have call-outs delineating adventure ideas that may be useful.
The Appendix has some final notes on converting monsters from other monster books as well as a chart of all the monsters and which book they can be found in released by Malhavoc Press. Handy if you follow everything that Malhavoc puts out, but as I don’t I thought it a bit if a waste.
All-in-all, if you have purchased Iron Heroes I believe that it is thoroughly worthwhile getting this book as well.
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