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Feb 4, 2013 · The new Monster Manual II joins the original Monster Manual and Fiend Folio in the AD&D series of books. In his preface, Gary Gygax expresses a wish to eventually have several volumes of monster, a wish that seems to be shared by the rest of the hobby, judging by the number of new monsters that appear in the pages of nearly every hobby magazine, professional or amateur.
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was the third and final monster supplement for the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, following the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio. Monster Manual II was published as a hardback book in 1983, and has the largest page count of the three, containing over 250 monsters, most with illustrations. As with the Monster Manual, this book was written primarily by Gary Gygax.
Many of the monsters were drawn from scenario modules, in particular from S4: Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, and it included a dozen new devils that had been first published in the pages of Dragon magazine. Despite this, a significant amount of its contents had never been published previously, unlike the monsters in both the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio.
The book included random encounter tables for dungeon and wilderness settings built from the Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Monster Manual II. Like the Fiend Folio before it, the monsters in Monster Manual II listed the experience point value for each monster within the entry. The Monster Manual II along with the first edition Unearthed Arcana book featured several monsters, races, and places from Gary Gygax's Greyhawk campaign setting.
The book contains a preface on page 4, a section entitled "How To Use This Book" on pages 5-7, descriptions of the monsters on pages 8-132, random encounter tables on pages 133-155, and an index of all the monsters in the Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and Monster Manual II on pages 156-160. Unlike the previous two books, this book does not contain an alphabetical listing of the monsters in the beginning of the book.
On publication of Monster Manual II, all subsequent reprints of other AD&D manuals were updated to match the design of Monster Manual II. This included, for example, a printing of the Monster Manual with a new cover by Jeff Easley (cover artist of the Monster Manual II).
garnered positive reviews, receiving a score of 7 out of 10 in a review in White Dwarf magazine. The reviewer praised the book's standard of clear presentation, and felt that the artwork was of a higher quality than that in the previous monster books. However, the reviewer felt that there were too many high level and overly deadly monsters, and that most of the monsters in the book were inimical to adventures. The reviewer did make note of the fact that there were "many interesting ideas and several well-developed tribes and hierarchies", and felt that, overall, the book is "a good, well presented addition to the AD&D series, with some very useful creatures". The reviewer recommended the book to anyone who likes a wide range of monsters in the game.
Doug Cowie reviewed Monster Manual II quite favorably for Imagine magazine. He noted that the cover was good, and contrasted it with the first edition Monster Manual, whose cover was "universally held to be appalling" and whose "childish style" may have "seriously hampered the development of RPGs as adult games". As for Monster Manual II, Cowie suggested: "If you like the AD&D game, go and buy it immediately." Although he found some monsters "to be just plain silly", they are all "well presented, properly thought out and adequately described".
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•Monster Manual II at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Monster Manual II was a new monster-specific rulebook that contained mostly updated monsters from the sourcebooks of earlier editions, though some monsters have almost no overlap with those of their first edition namesakes. Monster Manual II also included a discussion of monster design.
