Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix (1990)

This is the Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix (1990); jeeze, what a mouthful. Another solid Easley cover, depicting a sword wraith, a sea zombie and a…mist wolf? Sure, I’ll take it. Interiors are by the tag team of Tom Baxa and Mark Nelson again. I think Nelson was rubbing off on Baxa. There are a number of illustrations where I don’t know which of the artists are responsible, partly because Baxa’s leaning into zipatone here.

Solid selection of odd and formidable monsters: Shadow dragon, grell, norkers, hook horrors, yeth hounds, sons of Kyuss, necrophidius and slow shadows are all faves and get regular use in my homebrews. Do they feel like they are somehow indelibly Greyhawk? Not to me, but your mileage may vary.

Side note: is the sea zombie the first overt reference to a John Carpenter movie in D&D (The Fog)? I suspect so (though I believe they first appear in Greyhawk Adventures, 1988).

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