Ultimate Bestiary: The Dreaded Accursed PDF (5E)

Well done!

Sad to see this work going out of print and only wish i could have grabbed a hardcopy of the original Ultimate Bestiary before it sold out. Amazing work by amazing people. Stay beautiful and may the dice roll in your favor, my friends at Nord Games!

I absolutely love this book for the lore and alternate stat blocks for undead. There is so much potential here for customizing encounters and throwing new, creative monsters at your players. The writing is great, the stats are balanced, and I love the variety of monsters.

I have been playing D&D since the Moldvay red box set, and I played and ran every edition except 4th. After D&D 3.5, I loved crunchy games, but I regarded the crunch as a tool to build really good background. As a DM/GM, I regard the crunch as the gears, hoses, and cogs you see under the hood, and the players really only need to see the skin you put over all those gears. 5th Edition does more to put the skin over that crunch while still giving me tools to build great encounters. And that's what this publication has done: given me tools to customize supernatural encounters to creep out my players. Thank you.

Lots of cool monsters in here for anyone running a campaign with a lot of undead. Heads up, it's mostly variants of existing monsters, but it keeps those low level undead like Ghouls and Specters frightening without having to bog down action economy with 25 of em.