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This is a magnificent bestiary with a great level of detail for every monster in it. The art is excellent and consistent, and all the illustrations have a human-sized figure for scale like the dinosaur books I enjoyed as a child. What makes it particularly is the fact it has adventure hooks for every single monster in it. The creatures in here definitely lean toward the grotesque more than the quirky, and I don't naturally always go for that eldritch/demonic/cosmic monster style, but with so many of them I read the adventure hooks and found one I really want to use. Honestly, even if you weren't going to use the monsters at all and just wanted to steal the adventure hooks to use with your, it'd still potentially be worth the purchase. If you like demonic, otherworldly, and extradimensional beings, this is a must have, but even if you don't, it's still a probably should have!
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this is great! its full of neat new monsters and tons of artwork1 definitely worth the price
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a must have for your mörk borg table's needs.
Colors bleed throughout illustration and detail choked pages
one thing I love the most is size comparison for every listed creatures. And lores and seeds, each entry is written after a number for ease of reference and to simply use them as a clues to give to your players. It is very well thought out. I would most definitely look forward to vol2
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A wicked folio of fiends and aberrations. I look forward to putting some of these nightmares against a group, especially one with a paladin who has asked if this creature is a fiend one too many times. I love the bonus of seeds, lore, ecology and tactics.
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The second Creature Feature Quarterly provides another solid set of thoroughly detailed monsters. However, this is probably a little weaker than the first set, with a bit less variety; there are also a few more design hiccups this time (such as the bog horror not sounding like a neutral evil creature, and other monsters being mislabeled as humanoids when they're not). The set also feels somewhat more edgy overall than the first set, so they may not be to everyone's tastes. Still, there are some interesting choices, such as the axiom invoker, dreg, fen fiend, and juggernaut. As with the first volume, the price tag still seems slightly too high for 26 pages of content, but this is likely worth it on sale or in a bundle.
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An entertaining collection of monsters for D&D 5th Edition. Each entry includes a detailed description, lore, ecology, adventure seeds, and even a size comparison. These detailed writeups make the monsters extra inspirational and extra useful compared to the offerings from many other 5E creators. Highlights of this product include the blade wraith (my pick of the litter), the cerberan warlock, the lurking glutton, the protocol imp, and the Unseelie psychopomp. The only minuses for the product are some typos, and the slightly high price point ($4.50 for 26 pages of content); but the former is forgivable and the latter is evaded with a sale or bundle. The writing style can also be more casual at times than some readers might prefer. All in all, this is recommended for D&D 5E DMs, especially if you can get it at a discounted price.
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This is a very nice addition to our OSE game. The individual critters are imaginitive and evoke a sword-and-sorcery vibe. There's a good deal of information aobut each entry, which makes it easier to actually use the monsters in a game. Finally, the art gets high marks from me for being untilitarian - you get an idea of each creature's scale at a glance.
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I love black & white artwork and Jeremy's work is top notch (I aslo back his work on Patreon). I'm very happy with the selection of monsters and the creativity of their backgrounds/powers in his Creature Features. I've used several of his monsters in actual play and easily translated the powers/stats to whatever system I was using (my goto OSR game is OD&D/S&W:White Box)
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This is the stuff of nightmares.
It's also a very useful and accessible collection and a tremendous value for creators.
Love the selection of devils and demons and the Balrog in particular.
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Incredible artwork and an incredible bargain! The preview didn't work but I bought it sight-unseen and am SO glad I did!
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The art in the Creature Feature Quarterly is heavy on inks and grotesque features. It’s a distinctive style that you either appreciate or you don’t. I fall into the former camp. But regardless, it’s not the art that sets this product apart. My favorite part of Jeremy’s work is all the background information he’s created. I give it 5 stars for its inexpensive cost, nostalgic art style, unique creatures, and usefulness. It’s a great tool for your kit! Read my full review here: http://www.nonzerosumgames.com/creature-feature-quarterly-volume-1/
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Fresh creatures to shake up your veteran players. This pdf features 13 original creatures in a little over 30 pages and each creature has two pages devoted to it.
The layout and art is amazing. There is a visual representation for size comparison with each creature that I believe is an especially nice touch. This helps to quickly visualize these creatures that I need to describe during a game.
I like the first creature is a large muscled creature with highly reflective eyes, vicious claws, large glistening teeth and a profile that makes me think, well that is a monster. As I got into this description I found this fearsome creature only attacks when hungry or threatened. The extra details with these creatures and suggestions for the DM gives you the tools you need to drop these creatures in your game and have details you can give your players.
The player hooks are referred to as seeds and are provided with each creature. These are thought provoking and stimulate ideas for any game. One of my favorite ideas actually came from the Protocol Imp. I cannot wait to serve my players a summons from another plane.
I would like to see the orientation of the cover page changed, even if it is portrait and the rest of the pdf is landscape. The cover page has the creature sideways. I believe that choice was made because it is a large creature and you get more detail with that orientation, but personally I would prefer the title name running vertically and the creature upright. Rotate that first page like your image provided and that cover is golden. All in all the art and layout of the pdf is very visually appealing, easy to read and easy to navigate.
If for no other reason, get this volume for the size comparisons. It reminds me of older D&D books that had monsters and player races standing in a line up to help visualize size and I always liked seeing that.
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Lots and lots of excellent artwork here. Some are just variations and his art style reminds me a lot of the Silent Hill games, probably not for traditional fantasy, but good for dark or weird fantasy.
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I've bought a number of Mr. Hart's single pieces over the last couple years because he tends to cover "weird" subjects (most of which my modules are), weird in the old sense (as in Weird Tales), strange alien beasts, demons, creepy landscapes, etc, as opposed to more traditional fantasy or modern interpretations pf ,pmsters.
This has a lot of duplications, many of which are seemingly just color shifted, but you still get a ton of very high quality art. It's worth it for the 3 different types of the Hounds of Tindalos, the picture of the "Creepy Tentacle Monster", some of the demons and the odd landscapes. This is really a steal, even.
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Thanks for the kind words Jeremy. Yeah, there are a lot of different filter combos and color shifts in these older pieces.
I was selling them individually, but it was causing my storefront to get cluttered and only a few of the experiment/iterations were selling anyway.
Now I'm including any iterations of an image with others of the same series and increasing the price marginally with each new image.
Please, keep an eye out for my third fantasy stock art pack as I continue to consolidate my older work. If all goes as planned, it should be done this weekend. |
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