A good set of beasties
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This is a pretty handy tool for DMs to surprise their players. It contains a number of excellent new monsters with a very good hit-rate of good concepts. It also contains a lot of Eberron material, either for monsters explicitly mentioned (like Blackscale Lizardfolk and a large selection of Living Spells) or explains how more generic monsters work specifically in that campaign world. I also consider one of its strengths to be that it build on existing "types" - building on new types of giant, troll, ogres, the above-mentioned lizardfolk, goblins, rakshasa, golems etc. This helps give new challenges to players, spreading things out across the Challenge Ratings (consider trolls: this book provides both little Forest Trolls for CR4 up to the dread War Troll for CR12, among a number of other variants). Yet none of this feels forced or contrived in a lazy, cashing-in sort of way. Virtually all of the concepts stand up well. In fact, I would go on to say this is the best monster manual-style supplement, other than the basic 3.5 MM, that has been produced. (And it is the only supplement which is fully 3.5 compliant without resort to updates from the WoTC website.) Highly recommended.
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