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BX Advanced Bestiary Volume 1 Reviewed

Apr 1, 2024

Title: BX Advanced Bestiary Volume 1

Author: Todd Leback

Artists: Adrian Barber, Carlos Castilho, Dan Smith, Denis McCarthy, Fracesco Accordi, Marco Ortiz Walters, Michelle Smallwood, and Teresa Guido

Year: 2022

Genre: First volume of a fantasy bestiary designed for the Old School Essentials OSR roleplaying game

Pages: 134 pages

MSRP: $32.95 for the hardcover or $27.95 for the softcover or $13.95 in PDF alone at DriveThruRPG

I share my review of the BX Advanced Bestiary Volume 1 from Third Kingdom Games. The monster book is designed to be used with the Old School Essentials Classic Fantasy tome. The 134 page volume contains nearly 100 creatures, with variations, as well as race as class options.

There is currently a Kickstarter to fund the second volume of the series, Monsters E-K, which runs for another eight days too.

8.5

SUMMARY

If you're running Old School Essentials Classic Fantasy (or Advanced Fantasy too actually) the BX Advanced Bestiary Volume 1 is practically a must own. If you're using a different B/X derived or other OSR RPG the bestiary is a bit less useful seeing it doesn't include stat blocks for the core creatures/monsters from OSE. I really do like the variations on the classic entries and you certainly get plenty of monster bang for your buck.

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8.5

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