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Summary: D20 Oriental Adventures Monster book
Review: Creatures of Rokugan is a good source book for monster's in an oriental adventures campaing, however it lacks support for the previous d10 system. The book is a collection of stats and good monsters description, but you wouldn't find any extraordinary source of good roleplaying information. Some of this monsters will add some spice to your current d20 campaing, but is up to you if you want your adventurers to find a ghostly corrupted samurai in their next dungeon.
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Summary: A fun sourcebook
Review: My only problem with this book is that it seems useable almost exclusively for the Rokugan setting. As the title of the book sort of gives that away, I figure it's only fair to take off only one star for this minor flaw in an otherwise remarkable beastiary. This opinion rests chiefly on the inclusion of the Taint statistic, which is really only useful in Rokugan. To be fair, it can be removed, and without really altering the balance of the book. What I particularly appreciate about the book is that they don't assume that every creature that may have an extradimensional origin must be an "outsider," as most other books do. If a creature can be a part of the local ecology, it really can't be considered completely outside the ecology, so it can't really be an outsider. It's nice to see that here. The illustrations are nice nough, although lacking in detail in some cases. At the very least, they match the monster descriptions, which is more than I can say for some of the Monster Manual descriptions. (I'm looking pointedly at the Grick here) On the whole, these monsters should at least serve to get the imaginative juices flowing for non-Rokugan DMs, and prove an invaluable resource to those playing Rokugan.
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