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Hero System Bestiary cover. Hero System Bestiary is a compilation of creatures designed for use with Hero System role-playing game rules. [1] It is presented in the form of a bestiary and was published in 2002 for the 5th edition of the Hero System. The cover is made of thick paper and illustrated in color, while the interior consists of 239 ...
The Hero System Bestiary is a supplement published by Hero Games in 1986 to provide a variety of creatures for superhero, espionage and fantasy role-playing games that use the Hero System rules. As new editions of the Hero System rules were published, new editions of the Bestiary were also published.
The 2nd edition of GURPS Bestiary was updated by Chris McCubbin and Bob Schroeck, [citation needed] and had rules for were-creatures that wound up in GURPS Shapeshifters (2003). [ citation needed ] McCubbin and Schroeck wrote an article in a 1993 issue of Pyramid (a magazine published by Steve Jackson Games), offering extra material for the book.
The book details monsters, stats for major NPCs, hazards and "a section on building encounters" for the Dark Sun setting. [2]Shannon Appelcline, author of Designers & Dragons, commented that the "Creature Catalog features many monsters from MC12: "Monstrous Compendium Dark Sun Appendix: Terrors of the Desert" (1992) and Dark Sun Monstrous Compendium Appendix II: Terrors beyond Tyr (1995 ...
Andy Slack reviewed The Gateway Bestiary for White Dwarf #22, giving it an overall rating of 6 out of 10, and stated that "While obviously best suited to RuneQuest, the Bestiary could with a little thought have its contents adapted for another game system - D&D would probably be the easiest, though the Fantasy Trip is another good bet." [3]
MC1 Monstrous Compendium, Volume One was published by TSR in 1989. [1] It was written by the TSR staff, with a cover by Jeff Easley, and interior illustrations by Jim Holloway, and came boxed with 144 loose-leaf pages and eight color cardstock dividers (each with a color painting on it) in a three-ring binder. [2]
The Bestiary is very well written and beautifully illustrated. The numbers and game stats are -- hallelujah! -- secondary to descriptive text." He concluded, "The Bestiary is the best game product I've seen this year. The layout is good, the writing is fantastic, the art is great -- and most importantly, it's a useful game product.