CC2 Creature Cache

A compendium of over 200 monsters, statted up for classic editions of the world’s original role-playing game and comparable retro-clones (OSE, B/X, BECMI, LL).

Since the birth of the hobby, pulp stories have been an inspiration for both the game as a whole, but especially the creatures that populate its world. Thanks to illustrators like Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, and Margaret Brundage, those creatures took shape not only in the mind, but on the page as well.

Undertaken as a quarantine project in 2020 and inspired by the images produced by a host of legends of pulp illustration, this volume attempts to capture the spirit of the early days of the hobby. The result—a compendium of over 200 monsters, statted up for classic editions of the world’s original role-playing game and comparable retro-clones.

This collection features illustrations from the following, and many others! Dan Adkins, Allen Anderson, Rafael Astarita, Michael Becker, Val Biro, Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage, Edd Cartier, Harold Delay, Elliott Dold, Jr., D. Donnell, Edmund “Emsh” Emshwiller, Virgil Finlay, Kelly Freas, Ned Hadley, H.R. Hammond, Walter Haskell Hinton, Julian S. Krupa, Leo Morey, Gray Morrow, Vincent Napoli, Norman Nodel, G. O. Olinick, P.B. Parsons, Frank R. Paul, Amos Sewell, Herman “Beeson” Vestal, Wallace “Red Rat” Wilson