A compilation of old-school-style monsters compatible with Labyrinth Lord (and therefore the 1981 edition of the world's most famous fantasy RPG). A decent set of beasties, as far as fantasy RPG monsters go - most aren't very innovative, but there aren't any bad inclusions. (My pick of the litter was probably the murkbeast.) There are some hiccups with the presentation, however: a few monsters were duplicated (presumably to avoid having to edit the bestiaries from the original adventures), the two goblin variants aren't clearly identified, and the kytyllen swarm is missing its statistics. (I'm also not sure it was worth including common monsters like giant rats or giant spiders.) But none of these are deal-breakers, especially when you get the product for free...

Once again I'm late to the party with Lesser Gnome's Creature Catalog From Lesser Gnome,

this is a twenty -two page monster filled pdf harvested from their adventure, the majority have their own original illustrations by Lloyd Metcalf. Includes creature's sections from adventures including: Whisper & Venom, Bird of a Feather, & The First Sentinel. Given the fact that these are Lesser Gnome's spin on some familiar monsters, they each have some rather unique properties. The layout is solid and well put together, the monsters interesting and easily put into any old school adventure but this is a case where the adventure should be built around the monster. The monsters are done in a style that echoes and emulates the old Monster Manual style without aping it. Most if not all of the stats here are done for Labyrinth Lord and easily adaptable to your favorite rpg system including Lamentations of the Flame Princess. These monsters should be used sparingly because of the twists and kinks put into them. Examples of these sorts of creatures include this lovely little nasty; "The Byrgh, or rubbish crab, is a crustacean that lives amidst the filth of caves. Byrghs are usually found near cave/ cavern entrances. Unless in mortal peril they never venture above ground. Byrghs are generally found in groups of 5-7 individuals sharing a single nest. The nests are made from whatever cast off items or refuse the Byrghs scavenge" Basically these are the type of horrors that players are going to remember and used correctly not the type of thing their going to want to encounter again. Favorites of mine include the Murkbeast, The Nexid demon kind, and Gaunt Swept Scavenger among the many others in this book. There's a bit of an other worldly quality to these horrors and they'd fit right into a sword and sorcery or a Lovecraftian horror fest. Is this pdf a big advertisement for Lesser Gnome products? Most assuredly and they do deliver a quality piece of an adventure or monster. Basically this is a pdf that show cases some solidly done and well thought out horrors many of which can be applied to a wide variety of settings and adventure venues. Given the fact that these horrors have been created for the Labyrinth Lord retroclone game systems they're easily adaptable across the board and this includes Mutant Future's D&D back game Mutants & Mazes. Which is something that doesn't often seem to get mentioned or forgotten by other bloggers. Why this is I have no idea because it makes many of the retroclone and monsters easily adaptable across the board. This is a fact that I've often employed at the table numerous times. This makes Lesser Gnome's Creature Catalog a bit more flexible & do I think you should download it? Yes its worth your time and effort. A four out of five free download in my humble opinion. Eric Fabiaschi Swords and Stitchery Blog Want to know more? Subscribe to Swords & Stitchery over at http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/

Ok, so it's not the original Monster Manual. But it's not $12.00 (like it was for us kids in the late 70s...really expensive at the time) and its from one of the up-and-coming OSR publishers! Creature Catalog is a decent read for FREE....and it's caused me to check out some of the cool miniatures Lesser Gnome offers on their website. Attoral, anyone?

Is it a product to pimp their miniatures? Possibly. But I've also got a few figs in my collection that will work in the meantime, and some of the monsters are just a slight change of pace from the standard fantasy fare. And if I haven't said it before, its FREE.

Worth the download and CERTAINLY worth the price.

A very nice twist on some old monsters. Also some of the unique creatures are just a lot of fun, I think you can expect big things from Lesser Gnome, personally the adventure's that uses the monsters within is awesome. Sentinal, Whisper & venom all worth getting. check them out as well.

Its free, do right there you are doing ok. 20 pages of monsters from Lesser Gnome products. For the most part the monsters are interesting, and the classic ones (like Giant spiders and goblins) have a unique or interesting twist. My favorites were the Attorral, a type of scorpion monster, and the Nexid doldiers, some sort of demonic being from another plane. I will definitely use a couple of these in my own Campaign. Did i mention it's free? You really cannot go wrong here.

Nav buttons in layout - nice. some useful critters in here I think would be fun to plop into my campaign. Can't argue with the price!!

This is a free product so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

So, apparently this is collection of monsters featured in other Lesser Gnome products. I downloaded it having never bought or read a Lesser Gnome adventure. My hope was that maybe they had some interesting or unique creatures inside, but alas most of the book is full of random generic creatures covered in just about every monster manual ever. This leads me to think that Lesser Gnome does not traffic in new or interesting twists on D&D, but rather is just another publisher of fantasy PDF spam.

TLDR; Get this title if you have several Lesser Gnome product and want all the monster stats in one easy place. Do not get it if you are looking for unique or interesting monsters.