D&D Monster Manual 3.0 or 3.5 for cheap... Will this be handy for me to buy?

[Spinkler]

A friend went to someone's house who was selling minis for $1 each, and he discovered the guy selling the D&D Monster Manual for $10. He couldn't tell whether it was 3.0 or 3.5 for some reason, so I also have no idea as I haven't seen it yet.

I told him to buy it for me. Given the cheap price, was this a good deal considering we only play Pathfinder or am I going to find this book useless? :)

[Crimson Jester]

A few extra monsters that should be simple enough to convert. For $10 it is not a bad buy.

[TriOmegaZero]

Most everything in it that can be will have been converted to PF already. The only thing you'll get out of it are closed content monsters like the beholder and mind flayer.

[darth_borehd]

Blech! Save your money. If it was free take it, otherwise it will send on the shelf and collect dust.

[Spinkler]

I forgot to mention I haven't been able to afford the Pathfinder Bestiary yet, but I do still intend to buy them all when I can... Still, I imagine the closed content monsters might be fun and easy enough to convert. From what I've read conversion from D&D 3.0/3.5 isn't that tough, is that right?

[Paladin of Baha-who?]

If you don't have the bestiary, the pictures in the monster manual are pretty, and you can always use the stats from the PRD bestiary instead of the manual. It also makes a few things more explicit, like how to advance creatures by HD instead of templates, which I find confusing in the Bestiary.

[RuyanVe]

Greetings, fellow travellers.

Actually, if you're in no need of the artwork and a hardcover, you can find the Monster Manual online.

Ruyan.

[Jeraa]

RuyanVe wrote:

Greetings, fellow travellers.

Actually, if you're in no need of the artwork and a hardcover, you can find the Monster Manual online.

Ruyan.

Not all of it. You miss out on: Mind flayers, beholders, yuan-ti, displacer beasts, githyanki/githzerai, slaads, carrion crawlers, kuo-toa, and umberhulks.

[Richard Leonhart]

if you want to buy it, it doesn't really matter if it's 3.0 or 3.5, but the only thing really interesting are the benchmark wizard of the coast monsters Jeraa mentioned.

I wouldn't buy it, too expensive, and a waste of space, but perhaps having 2 illustrations of some monsters helps.

[RuyanVe]

Ah, true, it's OGL. But then again, I've never been in need of any of those for my games.

Ruyan.

[bigkilla]

If it is the 3.0 version you can routinely get a copy from Ebay or Amazon for under 7 or 8$ shipping included.

The 3.5 version is about double to triple that..and the 3.5 version is easy to tell from the 3.0 version as it clearly says in big bold letters 3.5 on both the spine and cover.