Re: Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium Pdf 25
Icaro Aveiga
We're doing the painstaking process of converting the entirety of both appendixes but we're trying to see if anyone compiled a PDF. Our DM is an older technology illiterate man who would find it far simpler to print out a book than to access information electronically. We're trying to run spelljammer converted into 5e since none of us know how to play 2e.
A little while back wizards released a free mini monster compendium of 10 monsters for Spelljammer. You could acquire it by either signing up for D&D Beyond or download it as a pdf by creating an account on the Wizards site. The other day I went looking for it on the WotC site so I could send a link to a friend who was interested but I could only find the link to it on DnD Beyond*.
Trenton Webb reviewed Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendices I & II for Arcane magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall.[6] He noted that this product was a re-release of the first two Monstrous Compendium appendices for Ravenloft, in a single bound volume, and that Appendix I details "the variants, updates and unique monsters which lurk in the Demiplane's mists" while Appendix II "takes these new creatures and fleshes them out into full NPCs, expanding the descriptions in Appendix I".[6] He commented that as a reference book, "Appendix I does its job well enough. The true worth of the work, though, undoubtedly comes from the quality of Appendix II's creations" which "offer referees a varied and rich source of legends to drop into their tavern conversations or to add colour to campaigns". Webb concluded his review by saying: "All Appendices I & II offer DMs who own the old loose leaf versions are a few new piccies and the tidy new bound form, which is all well and good but hardly enough to justify [the price]. But for Ravenloft DMs who've been struggling on without the compendiums, this re-issue is an essential purchase which offers both core reference material and an inspirational glimpse of the Demiplane's dark heart."[6]
Its only natural prey is the gossamer noble, which it disables by cutting off the tentacles, then attacking with claws and enormous jaws. It may attack spelljamming ships during times of great hunger to get at the soft, tiny morsels inside. However, the metal-and-wood canisters that hold these small feasts do not settle well with the gammaroid's palate. The lifespans of gammaroids are very long. Specimens with shell growth patterns indicating millennia of moults have been recorded. The shells of dead gammaroids are quite useful as spelljammer hulls, as the lightness and toughness of the shell combine to make a highly maneuverable armored vessel. They can fetch a king's ransom.
While the monsters in the compendium are all related to the Spelljammer setting, they encompass a wide range of Challenge Ratings, from the CR 1/8 Goon Balloon to the CR 16 Nightmare Beast. Most of them are unlikely to show up in a planetside campaign, but an inventive DM will surely devise ways for an Asteroid Spider to find itself atop a mountain, and creatures like the Nightmare Beast and the Eldritch Lich are just as menacing on the ground as in space.
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