: 24 Referencing Wizards of the Coast art director Dawn Murin, GameSpy author Allan Rausch found that until the 2nd edition the artwork depicting monsters was influenced by the popular culture of the late 1970s. : 83 In parallel with this change, the 2nd edition introduced colored images for each monster, which became standard in later editions of the game. : 106–107 This format was abandoned again in 1993 in favor of bound books. The 2nd edition also used a unique format in the form of Monstrous Compendiums of loose sheets that could be collected in a folder, and allowed the combination of monster books together with individual monster pages from boxed sets. While later editions gave the various creatures all the attributes which player characters had, 2nd edition only listed intelligence as a characteristic important for creating challenging encounters in the game. : 106–107 Next to a description, monster entries in this edition contained standardized sections covering combat, their habit and society, and their role in the eco-system. The second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game featured both a higher number of books of monsters and more extensive monster descriptions than both earlier and later editions, with usually one page in length. Monsters in the 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons or Wizards of the Coast, not licensed or unlicensed third-party products such as video games or unlicensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition manuals. This list only includes monsters from official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition supplements published by TSR, Inc.
This is a list of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters, an important element of that role-playing game. Fictional creatures in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
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