Here There Be Monsters!
For 24 years, Dragon Magazine's monster ecologies have detailed the fiercest and most fantastic creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons game. This compilation collects more than a dozen of the most popular ecologies from Dragon's recent history, including more fiendish details, vivid new art, an index of every ecology every published, and monster memories from some of the best-known designers and authors in fantasy, including China Mieville, R.A. Salvatore, Margaret Weis, Ed Greenwood, Monte Cook, and E. Gary Gygax. Monster lovers and adventures take heed! The details within might just save your life!

This special issue of Dragon magazine contains 128 advertising-free pages of the best ecology articles from the past three years. Drawing from the ongoing and popular "Monster Ecologies" series, this giant collection features new rules, art, details, and encounters for some of the most fearsome and fantastic monsters in the history of Dungeons & Dragons.

Dragon: Monster Ecologies contains ecologies of the choker, chuul, dracolich, draconian, ettercap, inevitable, kenku, kobold, kraken, lizardfolk, mooncalf, night hag, rakshasa, rust monster, shadar-kai, spawn of Kyuss, spell weaver, and will-o'-wisp. But that's not all.

As if a dozen and a half ecologies weren't enough, we also asked Gary Gygax, China Miéville, and Rob Kuntz to recollect their favorite D&D monsters; we take retrospective looks at the beholder, githyanki, mindflayer, and displacer beast, and then we wrap it all up with a feature known as the "Monsters of Suck." And did we mention an index of every ecology ever printed?