The Classic Bestiary
A downloadable creature bestiary
A classic OSR bestiary edited for ease-of-use and quick reference at the table.
It compiles monsters from basic and advanced versions of the world's greatest role-playing game. Full credit goes to the original authors and publishers. This tome is a restatement of previously-written rules.
Features:
- 27 pages
- 400 monsters
- ascending armour
- 2d6 morale
- slot-based items/weight
- lair percentages
- treasure type table
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These really, really, truly great. Seriously the best Knave bestiary out there. But they're a little awkward in printed form. Would you consider releasing them in A5 single page formats? That way they could be printed on A4 paper as a foldable booklet in Acrobat and be such an incredible resource in a book bag or on the gaming table!
I would also like to request that a Singles PDF be made. Would be much easier to work with for printing purposes!
+1 on single pages
I really love this!. did you consider adding random encounter tables?
Thanks! No, I was using the ad&d 1e DMG encounter tables for my Knave campaign.
This is incredibly useful. Would you consider sharing the source file so that we can add/remove our own monsters or change the stats to our liking? Thank you regardless.
I created it on Canva. The best I can do is put it up as a powerpoint (for now). I'll try to get one up and send it later in a reply on this thread.
OK, I hoped you had an easily editable Word document or something like that. Nevermind then, I think I will try to export the PDF to Word. It doesn't give great results but it is at least easy to edit. I think I can also use LibreOffice Draw to edit the PDF directly.
Can we see a booklet version of this in the future?
Possibly. I have another project on the go currently and not a lot of time to spare for it. So maybe in the future.
FYI you can print landscape formatted stuff as a booklet in Acrobat. Just select the ' Auto-rotate pages within each sheet' option and it arranges it automatically.
Sorry, scratch the above. I've just gone to bind the resulting booklet and the pages are in the wrong order - bu**er!
Just fantastic! Are there license terms?
Feel free to use it how you will. No credit goes to me. Just to the writers/editors of ad&d 1e and basic moldvay.
Cool. Fun, thanks!
Very nice, I like it a lot, especially the fact it's so condensed! And as a matter of a very minor criticism: did you consider by any chance changing the font of the initial letters? The ornate font you chose is very nice but sometimes a little bit illegible and I guess the intent of this bigger initial letter is to ease the navigation inside this book, isn't it?
Thanks! I decided to use the same titling font that Ben Milton does for Knave 1e. Although each letter itself might be hard to read at first, one should be able to look at the context of the other listings and figure it out.
Thanks for the context, I was not aware that it was Knave's font!
I love this! What's the unarmored AC for the OSR version?
I believe unarmoured would be 11. I used Knave's rule to convert ad&d (subtract descending AC from 20) and b/x (subtract descending AC from 19).
And thanks! Hope it gets lots of use.
Adorei esse material, ma dou bem.
Very cool, almost perfect. Its killing me that the Armour Class is AR and not AC though! Otherwise brilliant work.
Thanks, I'm updating some files and will change it to AC. AR was some weird holdover from another creature format I was using.
Amazing!