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Monster’ s Handbook

Credits

LEAD DEVELOPER

Wil Upchurch

MANAGING DEVELOPER

Greg Benage

WRITING

Mike Mearls

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Andy Brase, Mitch Cotie, David Griffith, Eric Lofgren, Hian Rodriguez, Tyler Walpole

GRAPHIC & COVER DESIGN

Brian Schomburg

EDITING

Greg Benage & Wil Upchurch

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Wil Upchurch

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LAYOUT

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Monster’ s Handbook

Contents

CHAPTER ONE

Modifying Monsters

CHAPTER TWO

Monster Tactics

CHAPTER THREE

Aberrations

CHAPTER FOUR

Dragons

CHAPTER FIVE

Elementals

CHAPTER SIX

Fey

CHAPTER SEVEN

Giants

CHAPTER EIGHT

Humanoids & Monstrous Humanoids

107

CHAPTER NINE

Outsiders

123

CHAPTER TEN

Shapechangers

139

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Undead

154

BONUS CHAPTER

Magical Beasts

found at www.fantasyflightgames.com

Introduction

I’m excited about the Monsters Handbook for

several reasons. First, I think it’s about time

monsters got what was coming to them....and I

don’t mean more ways for PCs to kill them. It

was interesting to work on this book in the mid-

dle of doing the Path series of character

resource books because that is essentially what

this tome is, a resource book for monsters.

Chapter 2 discusses monster tactics. It presents

combinations of skills and feats that may go

overlooked by players but are great resources for

monsters. It presents many common feats and

explains why some make good choices for mon-

sters and others are less than optimal. Included

in Chapter 2 is an extensive discussion of chal-

lenge ratings and encounter levels, with guide-

lines for how to create CRs based on the charac-

ters’ abilities and why not all CRs are created

equal. A section on ELs covers the best way to

produce challenging encounters and why some-

times two encounters with the same EL can have

wildly different effects on an adventure.

Sometimes even the most interesting and chal-

lenging monsters become a bit mundane after

years of adventuring, and one can only stock a

world with so many before the menagerie starts

to become absurd. This book is also a handy

guide to creating mutations or new types of an

old monster, which can have many campaign

implications or be used to launch exploratory

adventures. Part of the reason we develop prod-

ucts for the d20 System is to give players and

DMs a fresh new experience, and this source-

book is the perfect way to enhance any d20

System game.

Chapters 3 through 11 are the meat of this

book. Each covers a specific monster subtype,

from aberration to undead. Each creature type

is given tactics, new feats, new special abilities,

prestige classes, templates, and a sample crea-

ture created using the rules from this book.

After creating a creature in Chapter 1, flip to

the appropriate chapter for its monster type and

customize its feats and skills while granting it a

few more special abilities.

The Open Game License

Wil Upchurch

Fantasy Flight, Inc.

Monster’s Handbook is published under the

terms of the Open Game License and the d20

System Trademark License. The OGL allows

us to use the d20 System core rules and to pub-

lish gaming material derived from those rules.

Welcome

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to present

Monster’s Handbook , the eighth volume in our

Legends & Lairs line of sourcebooks for the

d20 System. Monster’s Handbook contains a

plethora of new classes, feats, templates, and

options for d20 System monsters.

Material that is strictly rules related is Open

Content.

Not everything in this book is Open Content,

however. The names of races, feats, skills,

equipment, spells, magic items, and rules

derived from the d20 SRD are designated as

Open Content. Descriptive text, unless other-

wise noted, is closed content and cannot be

republished, copied, or distributed without the

consent of Fantasy Flight Games.

Chapter 1 lays down the basics of this book. It

provides rules for modifying existing d20

System creatures, and taken to its extreme could

be used as a guide for creating entirely new and

appropriate challenges for a party of any level.

In addition, Chapter 1 includes an extensive list

of special abilities that you can add to new or old

monsters. Complete rules cover the effects of

adding new abilities to a monster on CR and

other game statistics. Rules and guidelines also

describe how to create special abilities based on

spells, common monster features such as poison

and psionics, class abilities, and other sources.

All illustrations, pictures, and diagrams in this

book are Product Identity and the property of

The Open Game License is printed in its entire-

ty at the end of this book. For further informa-

tion, please visit the Open Gaming Foundation

website at www.opengamingfoundation.org.

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