OUTDOOR RECREATION: Put away those bulky books and monster manuals!
2013 May 23, Marina Levina, Diem-My T. Bui, Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 197:
... "monster manuals" of the early role-playing games were made to resemble these medieval bestiaries, only with more precise figures. In the original Dungeons & Dragons pen-and-paper role-playing game's Monster Manual, the[…]
2016 April 1, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, Routledge, →ISBN:
[…] and Dungeon Master's Guide (1979). Further monster manuals followed, including the Fiend Folio (1981) and Monster Manual II (1983) for AD & D and the Monstrous Compendium series (beginning in 1989 and running to […]
