Slayer's Guide Compendium, The #1 (Slayer's Guides (d20))

Neale, R.

ISBN 10: 1904854575 / ISBN 13: 9781904854579

Published by Mongoose Publishing, 1999

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Mongoose Publishing Slayer's Guides (d20) Slayer's Guide Compendium, The #1 (EX/NM)Manufacturer: Mongoose PublishingProduct Line: Slayer's Guides (d20)Type: HardcoverCode: MGP0030Copyright Date: 2004Page Count: 256Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is EX/NM. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:Monsters play a big part in many fantasy adventures â they provide fearsome and inhuman foes, nefarious and evil villains, and even exotic sources of aid and wisdom. Many campaign worlds are filled with a myriad of different monster species, from more mundane creatures such as orcs to the truly majestic forms of dragons and spirits. They make fantasy feel fantastic, and provide fun adversaries for the players to try and overcome.Yet despite their often-pivotal role in a fantasy campaign as a major source of opponents or the propagators of evil schemes, monsters are often left remarkably shallow and undefined. Too many species are relegated to the status of dungeon-filling cannon fodder, placed there merely to provide warm bodies in-between the blades and spells of the heroes and the nefarious villainâ s treasure room. There is little thought given to their society or motives beyond vague ideas of tribal hierarchy and an unreasoning desire to throw themselves onto the weapons of passing mercenary bands. Unfortunately, even if a Games master wishes to explore and elaborate on the nature of a monster there is rarely an in-depth look at the species in question for them to draw upon.The Slayerâ s Guide series of supplements provides a solution to this problem. Each book is designed for use in all fantasy-based d20 game systems, and takes an exhaustive and definitive look at a specific monster race. Their beliefs, society, methods of warfare â these things are all thoroughly detailed, providing a wealth of information for a Games Master to draw upon.Typically, the races looked at in the Slayerâ s Guide series are precisely those races that suffer the most from being seen as little more than monsters of the appropriate Hit Dice or Challenge Rating to be thrown into the path of a rampaging party of adventurers. Often all but ignored except for their role as unthinking muscle or tools for some more powerful villain, the Slayerâ s Guide series add depth and complexity to the chosen monsters. It looks at what they do when marauding packs of heroes arenâ t around, how their culture works and how they think. In doing so, the series also helps turn meetings with such creatures from boring, straight-forward and unavoidable fights against cannon fodder into exciting encounters that demonstrate how monsters are more than just mindless automatons, and have aims, desires and beliefs of their own.This Compendium is a collection of six classic books from the Slayerâ s Guide series â Hobgoblins, Gnolls, Troglodytes, Bugbears, Trolls and Orcs. Many of these titles are now entirely sold out, such is their popularity, and so the Compendium brings them back to the public completely updated and fully compatible with the 3.5 Revised Edition rules.Also included are two entirely new and previously unpublished works, the Slayerâ s Guides to Dopplegangers and Tritons, bringing these oft-neglected races into the limelight with full and exhaustive treatments of each race that delve deep into their origins, beliefs and societies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slayer's Guide Compendium, The #1 (Slayer's Guides (d20))
• Publisher: Mongoose Publishing
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904854575
• ISBN 13: 9781904854579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Consisting of eight Slayer's Guide titles brought together for the first time, the first Slayer's Guide Compendium provides readers with the opportunity to get their hands on early and out of print Slayer's Guide titles in one convenient, hard-backed volume. The Compendium will also include at least one previously unreleased Slayer's Guide title never before seen in print. Furthermore, the text will be updated to version 3.5 for the first time, bringing all the books up to date.