Old World Bestiary

by T.S. Luikart, Ian Sturrock

This essential tome details the common and uncommon creatures of the Old World. Old World Bestiary contains game stats, monster entries with three points of view, slaughter margins for each monster, new monstrous talents, expanded Chaos Mutations, and hundreds of stories and anecdotes about the monsters of the Old World.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Fantasy, Games, Gaming

127 pages, Hardcover

First published May 14, 2005

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not only is this a monster book, but the first half is descriptions and misconceptions of those monsters by the inhabitants of the Warhammer world. GMs can use these to give the players a taste of what is known about the supernatural in this world.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely the best bestiary I've ever read for any game system, mostly because of its layout. The first half is all fluff – reports from common people and scholars so on. That makes it very easy for the GM come up with the kind of things that the players might have heard about the different kinds of monsters. For sapient monsters there's, even reports from them, so you can get an idea of their mindset. The second half is the monster's actual stats. This kind of layout makes it useful even for other fantasy RPGs just for the first half alone, as long as it's a fantasy background similar to Warhammer. Definitely worth the read.

[Arthur B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid monster collection, usefully also providing an entertainingly incomplete and occasionally-misleading in-character bestiary to give you some idea of what PCs might find out about these creatures through research. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordp...