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Monstrous Compendium: Outer Planes Appendix (AD&D/Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Accessory MC8)

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This is a 2nd Edition D&D compendium of extraplanar monsters from the fiends of the lower planes to the angelic but powerful minions of the higher planes and plenty of just plain wierd critters from the odd bits of the D&D universe. Demons and Devils are renamed Tanari and Baatezu but the descriptions of them and their society are the best you are going to get in any D&D product. In 2nd edition all outer planar creatures were removed from the core compendiums, until this came out and then they were reintroduced a little with the last release of the monstrous compendium, this however is the only source to in depth cover them and their hierarchies providing a solid framework to guide in using the creatures.

Highly recommended for anyong using 2nd edition rules or those using 3rd who want information on planar creatures beyond their combat stats.

I totally agree with the other reviewer here. I just thought it would be good to add a second voice. In addition to what they've already said, this book is the definitive source for these creatures. Many of them aren't detailed anywhere else, but ARE mentioned in other products with only brief combat statistics. Those combat statistics in the other products don't go into detail on how the creatures special abilities work, so you'll need this book if you really want to use the monsters properly. If you need info on any Baatezu or Tanar'ri that aren't in the Monstrous Manual, you'll find them in here. I'd HIGHLY recommend this book to Anyone playing in the Forgotten Realms campaign city of Myth Drannor, or in the Planescape campaign setting.

Just a note, this product is a tri fold cover containing a bunch of loose leaf pages. Good luck finding a complete copy with all of the pages.