Good for what it is, but really just a bunch of statblocks.

Nearly 100 pages of solid crunch for d20 3.x. No art. No fluff. Just a bunch of ready to go undead and other nasties.

The title may say Lazy GM, but a lot of work went into this title.

No fluff, all crunch. But prefect because of it. Page after page of Lizardman stats that you can drop into any 3.x adventure.

True story. I was driving home from spending some time at a local park fishing when I saw this paper grocery bag filled with notebooks in the road. I stopped, grabbed it and found someone's old school D&D game note. He had built an extensive dungeon filled with Troglodytes. I thought to myself (then) who the hell uses troglodytes! Fast forward to now. I wanted something different when running some games with my own kids, so I opted for Troglodytes (thinking back to that old notebook), this book, Lazy GM: Troglodytes, was a HUGE help. No thrills. No art. Just page after page of Trog stats that you can use anywhere.

I recently came back to this book to see if I could use it under the newest version of the rules. Not as sucessful, but it reminded how useful a book like this is.

To the Publisher: Seriously, redo this book for the newest D&D and add a table of random Troglodyte names and you have another hit on your hands.

This is a great, and FREE, product with tons of premade enemies ready to use! All the work has already been done, and they are already done up with full stats and everything. The enemies they've created are very creative and I can't wait to use them in my game. I give this product 10 out 10 stars! A+! What are you waiting for, get it now. Just to remind you, it's free. :)

If you need barghests for your next adventure herein you will find a wealth of options and detail to make them a lot more than just the next monster for the party to beat up.

To remind you, a barghest is a shape-changing fiend that usually presents as a wolf or a goblin and which has the disturbing ability to increase in power if it eats whatever it kills. At the hardcore mechanical level this works somewhat differently depending on whether you are using the Pathfinder or the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset, so if this detail is important for you both are dealt with in exquisite detail. As far as the party is concerned, it starts nasty and gets nastier... and when the dice hit the table, precise ruleset-based differences pale, you could actually use either to effect whichever set of rules you are using.

This is very user-friendly, particularly if you are reading the PDF onscreen rather than printed out. After the initial preamble that explains what a barghest is and how you might want to use its particular nature in an encounter (or even as the focus of a whole adventure) there's a set of lists (one for each ruleset) that gives a range of options ordered by CR. Click on the one of your choice and a hyperlink takes you to a full stat block. No messing with a generic stat block and notes telling you what has been changed, you get a full block for each and every option!

So once you have chosen the variant/CR you need, everything is to hand to enable that barghest to be dropped straight into the encounter that you have planned. Even if it survives and increases power during the course of the adventure, it will be straightforward to select the right set of stats for the next encounter - even during the course of the game if you keep your notes on a laptop or tablet! A nicely done GM aid.

Love this product. Very helpful with the campaign I am currently working on. Recommended for almost any level of play.

OMG. Any gamer that has been "around the block" for a whiles can appreciate the humour in this aweseome freebie! Yes! and Yes! to the Lazy GM

Fun low-level monsters for simple, possibly humor-oriented intermission adventures in between the "serious" chapters of your main campaign. You probably won't want to use these monsters more than once, but that's just fine.

Even if you never use these, it's worth reading for the entertainment value of these clever monsters.

One of the charges that’s often leveled against Pathfinder when going over the game’s negatives is that, in certain areas, it’s cumbersome. And as any GM who’s ever tried to construct customized monsters knows, that’s not an unfair charge. Creating custom NPCs is often a time-consuming task, requiring meticulous work to stack class levels and templates on creatures. Your third-level bugbear rogue, for example, isn’t something easily generated on the fly.

It was exactly this sort of problem that Creative Conclave set out to solve, at least as far as bugbears and their ilk are concerned, with The Lazy GM: Goblinoids (Pathfinder Edition).

An update of the d20 v.3.5 version of the same name, this book details various possible builds with class levels, templates, and more for goblins, bugbears, and hobgoblins, as well as wolves, dire wolves, worgs, and goblin dogs, among others. A truly impressive array of stat blocks are presented for these – more than I could hope to count – leading to this 166-page PDF.

What makes this book truly impressive is that it doesn’t just dump a big bunch of stat blocks on you and walk away. In fact, the book opens with an impressive series of tables that describe and organize the book’s contents. Not only is the book divvied up by creature (with a handy table of contents), but it opens with a handy introduction going over each aspect of the stat blocks and explaining the decisions they made and why. Following this are listings of all the monsters in the book by Challenge Rating, and class/template/variant, with each entry being hyperlinked.

Of course, the book isn’t without its flaws. Some of these are technical in nature, such as the lack of PDF bookmarks (though the aforementioned hyperlinked listings help to mitigate this), and the fact that the stat blocks aren’t in the typical Pathfinder format but are instead in the older 3.5 format. I also suspected that there were one or two details got overlooked – I could have sworn, for example, that some monsters had no favored class bonus.

Still, it should be blatantly obvious that this book is a major help to GMs who want to have goblinoid NPCs in their game. Having put together a truly impressive listing of goblinoids of various class, multi-class, and template combinations, you’ll find something of use in here, or at least something approximating what you’re looking for. If you’re a lazy GM, then this series is quite literally named after you, so pick the book up today and save yourself a lot of trouble.

A collection of stat blocks for standard undead (that is, non-template undead) and fiendish creatures (other than demons and devils) with class levels and templates added. This would be very handy for anyone who is planning a campaign with lots of undead and/or feindish opponents, and is looking for some variation in their foes. With this, all of the number-crunching work has been done for you.

The Lazy GM: Undead and Other Fell Foes is one of those products that makes a GMs life a lot easier. The product presents a bucket load of statistics blocks for numerous undead and other creatures, using class levels and monster advancement to generate an assortment of powerful foes of different abilities and challenge ratings (ranging from CR 1 to CR 24). Of the two dozen odd base creatures that are included in this product, hundreds of additional creatures are created in a variety of forms, shapes and sizes. The choice of class levels and advancement HD is well balanced against the creature's native CR, and make sense within the culture of the base creature. The majority of creatures in the product are undead, but numerous other foes are presented such as Howlers and Yeth Hounds.

This is an extremely useful product overall, crafting accurate statistics blocks that can add a huge amount of variety to any GMs game. With the product designed with the 3.5e OGL in mind, it might not be that compatible with the Pathfinder RPG without some modification, but players of the 3.5e OGL can do a lot with this product. Combined with all their other Lazy GM offerings, one never really has to create another stat block from scratch again. Creative Conclave have done it all for you, true to their product slogan of 'We Work, You Play!'. I have to admit though, that I wasn't as enthusiastic about this offering as I have been in the past about some of the other Lazy GM products. It's not that the work isn't spectacular, but rather that I felt it lacked the spark when churning out the statistics blocks. It looked more like an exercise rather than an attempt to also create unique and interesting creature combinations. I really liked the categorization of the creatures according to 'roles', another aspect of the product that makes it easy to use and pick the creature you want based on CR and purpose. Nice product, perhaps not the strongest offering in the Lazy GM series, but still superb value and usability.

Ah! Here it is! After a long wait, the Book of Brutes arrives with gianty goodness for all. I like this product and I think that its current $9.99 price is a bargain. You get bears. You get ogres. You get ettins. You get minotaurs. As sort of a jolly addition to the mayhem, you also get the gleefully powerful athach in all his twisted forms. Just print them off, or highlight, copy and paste and you have yummy monsters to toss down on your gaming group. Any GM who understands how much time it takes to create unique advanced monsters in D20 gaming will instantly see the value in this product. The only criticism I have of this product is that we want more! Where are the fire, frost, hill, cloud and storm giants? We need The Lazy GM; Book of Giants, and we need it ASAP. Keep up the good work Creative Conclave!

This product is exactly what is says it is. Stat blocks for 3.0, 3.5 and pathfinder system. No there not pretty stat blocks never are but you know what it saves me so much work I do not want to do. Not only do they have stat blocks for the hit point soaking mooks but also spellcasters with there lists which saves and increadable ammount of time.

This product gives a range of stat blocks for lizardfolk all in the lizard folk theme. Better yet it's open content which allows anyone to use it.

I recommend this product to anyone who does not have the time the use to or want quick plug and play monster on the fly without the work.

Creative Conclave has put together a string of some of the most useful products for the OGL system. If you are a gamemaster who intends to stick around and play D&D 3.5 for a while longer, you would do extremely well to latch on to all this company's products.

DMing 3.5 is a difficult enough task without constantly having to work up advanced monsters and templates. The Lazy GM series is the perfect power tool for any DM who needs muscular, interesting or just plain different monsters.

The only negative thing I have to say about this awesome load of thunderbolts for any DM is...I wish there were more of them. For instance, where is a case of dynamite in the form of the giant class monsters? We want more!

Seriously....totally worth plunking your DM money down for this set of very nice time savers.