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Originally Posted by badcat
Just out of curiousity, would anyone here who has seen or read it recommend the Malleus Monstrorum as a monster book for a vanilla-ish BRP fantasy campaign? Is there enough non-Mythos material to make it worth the price for someone who is not especially interested in the Mythos sections?
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I used many of the MM stats for the natural and some fantasy creatures.
There are dozens and dozens of non-Mythos creatures in the book. Plenty of natural creatures, supernatural creatures, and others.
From the creatures of myth and folkore section:
Ghosts
Golems
Lake Monsters
Man-Eating Plants
Megalodon
Mummies
Sasquatch
Scarecrows
Skeletons
Vampires
Werewolves
Wraiths
Zombies
Animals:
Alligators & Crocodiles
Barracudas
Bats
Bears
Bobcats & Lynxes
Bush Pigs
Bison, Cape Buffalo & Water Buffalo
Condors
Dogs
Elephants
Gorillas
Hippopotamus
Horses
Hyenas
Indian Wild Dogs
Jackals
Killer Whales
King Cobras
Lions
Moose
Moray Eels
Mountain Lions & Panthers
Octopus, Giant
Piranha
Pythons
Rats
Rhinos
Scorpions
Sharks
Snakes, North American Venomous
Snapping Turtles
Squid, Giant
Stingrays
Tigers
Wasps & Bees
Wolves
And in the Mythos-related, here's a quarter of the creatures in the book:
Deep One Hybrids
Deep Ones
Fire Vampires
Flying Polyps
Fungus, Vile
Ghasts
Ghouls
Goatswood Gnomes
Hell-Plants
Horses of the Invisible
Hyperboreans
Leng, Men from
Lloigor
Martians
Mind Parasites
Nightgaunts
Rat People
Rat-Things
Reptile People
Sand-Dwellers
Serpent People
Shoggoths, Proto-
Sphinx, Children of the
Swine Folk
Tcho-Tchos
Terrors from Beyond
Things
Tomb-Herd
Travelers
Tree-Men of M’bwa
Triffids
Trolls
Tunnelers Below
Watchers
Wendigo
Worms of the Earth
Yig, Children of
It's an invaluable resource for any BRP related game. Run to stores now!