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Monstrous Compendium Annual - Volume III

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Welcome to the third installment of the Monstrous Compendium annual. Drawn from our best adventures of 1995?not to mention the award-winning Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines?this annual also marks the return of many old classics and introduces some nifty new critters!

More than 100 denizens of the land, sky, sea, and Outer Planes are ready to sneak, storm, or wheedle their way out of these pages and into the nearest adventure. These creatures, many of them from the Forgotten Realms, Birthright, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, and Greyhawk settings, are looking for new worlds to conquer.

This collection features a full combined index to the Monstrous Manual tome and all three annuals.

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James B November 06, 2020 7:58 am UTC
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Nice to see this, finally, but a low-quality scan plus no searchable text makes it pretty disappointing. I suppose I should have been worried when the cover was obviously crooked...
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Stephen B July 07, 2023 8:26 pm UTC
HUH, usually they warn/notify you during the checkout process "this is a scanned pdf" meaning they lost the original assets (super common sadly) and had to scan a physical print, which will result in lower quality pages then a pdf made from the original, as for the can't search issue I suggest you look for an "OCR" program for PDF files, there's a lot out there I've had a lot of luck with a few. I think Foxit has had the best track record for me.

I tried going through the checkout process and they didn't indicate this was a scanned copy so it is unfortunate. I'm not sure what happened between TSR getting bought out by WoTC, if it was TSR doing a bad job at keeping track of their old source files, or if there was an incident where they lost them, or if they couldn't afford the storage (hard drive space used to be very expensive and the devices used to make these books were very limited on storage, etc, etc as we are talking the 80's and early 90's).

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