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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:06:07 GMT -5
I know a lot of people complain about it but I liked the idea of the Monstrous Compendium. It seemed like a great idea to have loose leaf pages of monsters that could be arranged in whatever order you wished or removed from the MC for the night to use in your gaming sessions. I understand why people didn't like it; pages could be lost, the binder holes in the pages could be ripped, and you could conceivably spend a lot of time performing upkeep and maintenance on the contents of the binder. Great concept but it was ultimately a letdown for many people.   How about you? Did anybody use it? Did anyone else like it? |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:11:17 GMT -5
I know a lot of people complain about it but I liked the idea of the Monstrous Compendium. It seemed like a great idea to have loose leaf pages of monsters that could be arranged in whatever order you wished or removed from the MC for the night to use in your gaming sessions. I understand why people didn't like it; pages could be lost, the binder holes in the pages could be ripped, and you could conceivably spend a lot of time performing upkeep and maintenance on the contents of the binder. Great concept but it was ultimately a letdown for many people. View AttachmentView AttachmentHow about you? Did anybody use it? Did anyone else like it? Not something I had or used, but I liked the looks of it. I would have had to get the little things you glue around each binder hole. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:16:10 GMT -5
I know a lot of people complain about it but I liked the idea of the Monstrous Compendium. It seemed like a great idea to have loose leaf pages of monsters that could be arranged in whatever order you wished or removed from the MC for the night to use in your gaming sessions. I understand why people didn't like it; pages could be lost, the binder holes in the pages could be ripped, and you could conceivably spend a lot of time performing upkeep and maintenance on the contents of the binder. Great concept but it was ultimately a letdown for many people. View AttachmentView AttachmentHow about you? Did anybody use it? Did anyone else like it? Not something I had or used, but I liked the looks of it. I would have had to get the little things you glue around each binder hole. Those are exactly what I was talking about! I worked for a Warrant Officer at my first duty station. He was cool but he would mix it up on people being crappy. Instead of doing pushups, he had people do "TMPM" or Technical Manual Preventive Maintenance. If you got stuck on that, you were going through the folders of technical manuals page by page and putting those little sticky things around the eye holes of every page that needed it. I never got on his bad side.  |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:27:25 GMT -5
The Monstrous Compendiums were great at first until you got monsters that took up multiple pages and they would print a monster with a different starting letter that would be out of order. The other thing that sucked about them was being loose leaf pages with no hole protection. The only way to protect the pages was to use sheet protectors. Even more disadvantages! Decent idea and simple. I hadn't thought of that. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:32:58 GMT -5
If the pages came laminated and the monsters as separate from each other it would have worked. I thought the idea was rather neat considering you'd have to root around in so many different books in 1E to find the monster you were looking for. Great idea! I would have gladly paid a bit more for that MC because it would have been made to last with the lamination. |
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 9, 2023 19:39:09 GMT -5
When it came out lamination was expensive, so it was rather rare to see. Right on! |
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