Welcome to Year Three! Drawn from our best adventures of 1995 - not to mention the award-winning Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron Magazines - this annual also marks the return of many old classics and introduces some nifty new critters! More than 100 denizens of the land, sky, sea, and Outer Planes are ready to sneak, storm, or wheedle their way out of these pages and into the nearest adventure. These creatures, many of them from the Forgotten Realms, Birthright, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, and Greyhawk settings, are looking for new worlds to conquer. This collection features a full combined index of the Monstrous Manual Tome and all three annuals.
Ever wonder about the people who sit around and make up imaginary monsters? Oh and they also track down mythical creatures and adapt them to the game system... These books are, of all the Dungeons and Dragons books the ones that can be just fun to look through. During the period of the 2nd edition game for a while each year brought a Monstrous Compendium Annual... they were all fairly useful and fun.