Sword & Sorcery Creature Collection II: Dark Menagerie (Core Rulebook)

By Erol Bayburt and SSS STAFF

Book Overview

CREATURE COLLECTION II: DARK MENAGERIE THE TWISTED LEGACY OF DEAD GODS Over 200 horrifying aberrations, undead and other creatures ready to corrupt or kill the most stalwart heroes. Picking up where... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588461602
• ISBN13: 9781588461605
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: White Wolf Pub
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book of alternative monsters

I loved this book. Lots of good monsters that fit into any game. My favorite monster is the Time Killer. A CR1 that has an aging breath weapon. This is a good buy for any DM. This book goes right up with the Monster M. series and the first Creature Collection was a great book. I bought this book never having heard of it for a great price. Good impulse buy. On the negative side it has a couple of monsters that are Scarred lands specific but any DM can work around somthing like that.

Excellent sourcebook

I love Sword & Sorcery Studios. I've loved 'em since they came out with the Creature Collection 1, before the official Monster Manual came out. They're a high quality publisher, backed by one of the biggest companies in the biz, White Wolf, and it shows. This product is of great quality, much better than the first Creature Collection, which was admittedly mediocre in several departments. There are a huge range of monsters and other assorted things tailored for the Scarred Lands setting, but most if not all of them can be dropped into any setting with little if any change.Also, you get a wide range of different sorts of monsters, because the book was not just written by a few individuals. Rather, they had open writer calls, so anyone could send in a permission form and their own monsters to be included in the book, so you get the cream of the crop from the collective minds of the entire D & D community.

Dark Monsters

This is probably my favorite monster book for D & D so far. The monsters are dark, scary, and threatening to all player characters. They are interesting to read about and good to throw at players and surprise them if they are expecting standard monster manual type creatures. A pretty good investment compared to a lot of other stuff out there :)

bruuHAHAHAHAHA

More monsters, nastier monsters, wierder monsters. Few "good guys", but who needs 'em? I want to see more from SSS on the Carnival of Krewes. Whenever I need to freak out the players, this book comes out. If you like Call of Cthulhu and want a little more of that flavor in your campaign, this book does it. SSS continues to crank out hi quality stuff for DMs. I don't think I'd use their setting, but they give you a lot of inspiration to do your own thing. Any of the setting "specific" monsters in here can be put in your own setting quickly. The "specifics" just flesh out the monsters more, but my experience is that players aren't neccesarily gonna care.

Certainly is a Dark Menegerie!

Yes, the Creature Collection 2 is a good buy....Having been a White Wolf fan for years, I hoped that this SSS/White Wolf book would have some good stuff in it - and it does. It has great artwork, an unconfusing listing of monsters page by page, and interesting backgrounds for each creature that can be used by the DM or just taken into consideration within your own camaign. It also gives "template creatures" which basically can be made into any creature of any type. It's a book buy, and the artwork is great. Go ahead, check it out.