Monster Manual: Special Edition (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Core Rulebook III) [Deluxe Edition] [Leather Bound]

Skip Williams (Author), Monte Cook (Author), Jonathan Tweet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2006

A deluxe leatherbound edition of one of the three D&D core rulebooks.

This new, beautifully bound version of the Monster Manual joins the special editions of the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide to complete the premiere set of Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. Like the others, the title gets premium treatment in the form of a leather binding, emboss and foil treatment, gilt-edged paper, and an attached ribbon bookmark.

Product Details

• Leather Bound: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Special edition edition (October 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786939435
• ISBN-13: 978-0786939435
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wizards Score a Triple - Nothing Beats a Leatherbound Book, October 14, 2006

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David Goodkin (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster Manual: Special Edition (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Core Rulebook III) (Leather Bound)

I enjoy this book for the same reason I enjoy the Leatherbound Special edition Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide.

At risk of repeating myself, If you love the look and feel of a leather book, as I do, then you will love this book. It is true there is nothing new but the errata (which is available online anyway) but then this means this book is one you buy purely by choice, a choice any book lover would be happy to make.

It is durable, like its two predecessors, able to take the beating gaming books inevitably suffer when carried around in book bags to far off gaming tables to game. I have used my leatherbound PHB and DMG in many a mobile session now and they look and feel in as good condition as when they were new, with none of the scuffle marks one gets on the regular plastic-laminated hardcover gaming books.

As I might have predicted, it has a green cloth bookmark, to contrast nicely with the red cloth bookmark with the PHB and the blue cloth bookmark with the DMG. It is a nice touch to use different colors, and a much-needed one because when the books are piled together, the black leather covers look similar, so the bookmarks set them apart. They also make a nice colorful contrast to each other in an almost artistic way that I find aesthetically satisfying.

Wizards must have heard some complaints about the pages sticking together at the ends from the gilded edges, because they do not stick at all with the Monster Manual - with the exception of a few pages very slightly at toward the binding, but those quickly separate, much like the PHB and DMG did. I must say I was slightly disappointed that I was not the one who separated them like I did with the prior two books (letting me know I was the first person to open it), but that is rather silly, since either way, once you use the book, they will be, and the books all come shrinkwrapped in plastic, so no one would be thumbing through it before me in any case.

All in all, this is a well constructed book that I expect to see heavy usage around my gaming table. I hope Wizards makes other leatherbound versions of heavily referenced books, like the Spell Compendium, because they are a joy to have and use.

(Minor confession - I bought two copies of each volume - one to use, one to put on my shelf next to my leatherbound Shakespeare and More than Complete Hitchikker's Guide to the Galaxy, just so I knew I'd have a pristine copy and so I could take my 'for play' copies with me without worrying as much about them, but they play copies are so durable I probably needn't have done so - and the pure visceral pleasure of opening and using these books at each game makes me enjoy those copies more than the pristine ones on my shelf).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Collectors Item, January 16, 2007

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Jason Bryant Cohoon "Baptor" (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster Manual: Special Edition (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Core Rulebook III) (Leather Bound)

If you are a fan of D&D like I am, this book is a wonderful addition to your collection of books. The pages are in vibrant colors and they have fixed some of the errors from the first printing of the Monster Manual. I've found the book is good to use in a game just like the normal ones. My only complaint is that when you first get it, alot of the pages are stuck together and have to be turned carefully to peel them apart or you can tear a page. Other than this, its a great product.

5.0 out of 5 stars Black leather is better than the image supplied, July 27, 2007

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Mark Bibbee "Aldar" (Dream world of fantasy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster Manual: Special Edition (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Core Rulebook III) (Leather Bound)

I was happily surprized that the book did not match the image suppled by Amazon and other web sites! So glad it matched the other 2 leather bound books. I hope more are produced by wizards in the future.

The leather book is similar to the previous 2 supplied by Amazon and by far Amazon has the best price.