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Originally posted by Jorkens

Ah, sorry for the mistake. I actually only own the first general one and its barely recommendable. A couple of the scenarios are OK, but mostly they are mediocre. The deck of encounter sets are a hundred times better if you can find them.

And Wooly; how does the second book and the Realmsian one compare to the first? I have been a bit hesitant about buying them.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

I knew there were 4 books with the name (Lairs I, Lairs II, FR Lairs, and Dragonlance Lairs) so my question was really in reference to any of them.

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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

There were at least five -- Spelljammer had Space Lairs.

You could prolly also include Country Sites, Castle Sites, and City Sites in that list.

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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

There were at least five -- Spelljammer had Space Lairs.

You could prolly also include Country Sites, Castle Sites, and City Sites in that list.

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Yeah... Spelljammer. Still one of my favorite settings (fond memories of integrating it with the Realms - the gradual build-up of the Daggerford Wildspace Squadron...). I would not put that one in the same category as the Books of Lairs, though, where the various encounters are dealt with in around one or maximum two pages. Space Lairs is more like Tales from the Outer Planes and REF5-Lords of Darkness - medium-length adventures, rather than random encounters on (light) steroids.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

Got my copy of the FR Book of Lairs. It's not bad. My biggest gripe is that most of the monsters are ones I have never heard of before, but thankfully they give you the stats for them, and in most cases a picture too.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

Alguduirs, asperii, beguilers, monkey spiders, orpsus, ringworm, and so forth. Almost every adventure revolves around a monster I haven't heard of before. The book mentions it might be useful to have a FR Monster Compendium, but I dont have that, and dont recall ever seeing a book like that.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

I remember the binder version of the MC. Actually that was probably a good idea on their part. A shame they didn't stick with it.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

Well I just won a bid for Book 2 on ebay, but unfortunately someone sniped me on Book 1 with a few seconds left on the auction. Sad thing was, both books were coming from the same guy and I was hoping to have him ship them together. Oh well.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

Alguduirs, asperii, beguilers, monkey spiders, orpsus, ringworm, and so forth. Almost every adventure revolves around a monster I haven't heard of before. The book mentions it might be useful to have a FR Monster Compendium, but I dont have that, and dont recall ever seeing a book like that.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

Ha! Finally won a bid for Book 1. Now I have 3 of the 5.

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Originally posted by Fizilbert

I was talking about the Book of Lairs. I now have Lairs I, Lairs II, and the FR Lairs.

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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

<snip> Here's a list I just grabbed from Wikipedia:


MC1 Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989) — 144 pages, 12 dividers and 3-ring D-binder
MC2 Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989) — 144 pages
MC3 Monstrous Compendium Volume Three Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC4 Monstrous Compendium Dragonlance Appendix (1989) — 96 pages, 4 dividers and 3-ring D-binder
MC5 Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix (1990) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC6 Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix (1990) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC7 Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix (1990) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC8 Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix (1991) — 96 pages, 4 dividers
MC9 Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix II (1991) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC10 Monstrous Compendium Ravenloft Appendix (1991) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC11 Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix II (1991) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC12 Monstrous Compendium Dark Sun Appendix: Terrors of the Desert (1992) — 96 pages
MC13 Monstrous Compendium Al-Qadim Appendix (1992) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC14 Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix (1992) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
MC15 Monstrous Compendium Ravenloft Appendix II: Children of the Night (1993) — 64 pages, 4 dividers
Monstrous Manual (1993) — 384 page hardcover reprinting MC1 & MC2 plus others
Dark Sun Monstrous Compendium Appendix II: Terrors Beyond Tyr (1995)
Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendices I & II (1996) — reprinting MC10 & MC15
Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix III: Creatures of Darkness (1994)
Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994)
Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (1995)
Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III (1998)
Mystara Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994)
Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume One (1994) — reprints from modules and magazines of 1993
Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two (1995) — reprints from modules and magazines of 1994
Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996) — reprints from modules and magazines of 1995
Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Four (1998) — 96 pages; reprints from modules and magazines of 1996–7
Savage Coast Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1996) (download-only)

I have all the generic ones and the planar ones in the binder with MC1. All of the non-FR and non-Spelljammer ones are in the binder with MC4. Both Spelljammer appendices I put into a non-MC minder, along with some other stuff, and I bought a big non-MC binder for all of the appendices that were anywhere on Toril (Realms, Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim). That last binder also holds all the MC pages from FR boxed sets.

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