A Practical Guide to Monsters
The sequel to The New York Times best-selling A Practical Guide to Dragons
How do you trick a troll? Do vampires sleep? Why worry about yuan-ti? Just in time for Halloween, this lavishly illustrated guide showcases the spooky, unexpected, and always fascinating world of monsters!
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Nice evening read
I bought this book for my son, who is 4 years old. He doesn’t know yet to read or to add so we hardly can play D&D toghether. Instead I read him every evening two or three monsters out of this book. He enjoys it very much and also loves the images.
Not a book for grown-ups, to little information. More important, the monsters are straight out of D&D, do not expect something mythologic or real. But a nice, colorful, experience.
5 Stars a practical guide to monsterw
a great book for my 9 year old grandson. he spent hours with the book. great book for the car on a two hour drive. fires the imagination. would highly reccoment.
4 Stars A practical guide to crunch without numbers
So I lucked out yesterday and found a copy of this at a local big box store. I was quite surprised as normally, books like this don’t appear there. So I grabbed it. I knew beforehand that this was not a normal D&D book. It didn’t have stat blocks, detailed sections on ability, powers or tactics of the creatures inside it.
What it does have is tons of in character ways of explaining powers, abilty and tactics of the various monsters inside. I thought it was best used as a manual a character could purchase from a wizard or guild to provide them info that they could actually get. Crafty DMs should then be able to convert it over to some kind of knowledge boosting bonus dependant on the type of creature. It’s full of tons of flavor text and basics that would work perfectly for lower level adventurers, especially if the players are not old hard vets of the game.
The illustrations inside are a lot of reprints from the Monster Manual, but when there is something new, it’s well done. It’s fits with a good introductory to monsters and even if it is made for kids or young readers, it fits for the older readers to.
4 Stars Beautifully illustrated and fun to read
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TZ4X36HIR5XU These books were a fantastic introductory read. They have really beautiful illustrations and a fun quirky story element to them. My son read this book 4 times in the first day we bought it. These are really a good way to introduce children to the world of Fantasy Fiction.
5 Stars Fantastic introduction to Dungeons and Dragons monsters for kids
This book does a fantastic job at capturing kids imagination and excitement about these wonderful monsters that Daddy plays with on Thursday nights. The art style only kidifies goblins (as cute little illustrated guides cowering before many of the baddies). I bought this for my 6 year old daughter at Christmas and she’s enjoyed it immensely, though it truly won over my 3 year old daughter who insists on a quick pass through the whole book where she identifies 95% of the monsters on sight and their diets and usually a distinguishing feature like “I love the Rakshasa, they have backwards hands and magic!”
A must have for D&D fans with kids.
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