Read The Monster Overhaul: A Practical Bestiary by Skerples

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Highly Recommended

This is the best D20 resource I’ve found. Pair with Trilemma Adventure Compendium and your favorite D20 system, and you can have hundreds of hours of great fun.

“Practical” is a great description. This isn’t just statblocks and pictures, but contains highly-useful information like motivations, variations, and tables. It’s packed with inspiration and flavor (including tasting notes and results for creatures that characters are most likely to try to eat 😆). Wizards come with plenty of magic options. Sphinx comes with riddles. Dragons come with hoards. You get the idea.

Every layout is jam-packed with useful information and tables.

You’re encouraged to mark it up and make it yours. I bought a second copy and I will.