How much of the 5th ed Monster Manual is available on the Roll20 SRD content>
In other words, is it worth my while buying the Roll20 version of the MM or would it be better if I spent my money on something else?
How much of the 5th ed Monster Manual is available on the Roll20 SRD content>
In other words, is it worth my while buying the Roll20 version of the MM or would it be better if I spent my money on something else?
You can find the SRD here to compare to the print version of the Monster Manual. I couldn't find specific numbers through a quick google search, but I would estimate ~20% more? In any case, you also get art, illustrated tokens, and lore. If that has value to you, then the purchase is more attractive. The Monster Manual also keeps up with errata from Wizard of the Coast, while the SRD is "frozen" to the last version.
If you don't care about lore and art, and are going to make your own tokens, you're probably fine with the SRD.
Edit: Ignore this post, it's incorrect - more accurate numbers are in some posts below.
The SRD has 129 monsters, the Monster Manual has 145 monsters (on the Roll20 compendium, at least).
These are what the Monster Manual has that the SRD does not:
Weirdly, the SRD has "Zombie" and the Monster Manual doesn't on Roll20.
WOW! Thank you, Liam. I think for the sake of 17 creatures, I could probably create the Roll20 entries without too much work.
That being the case, I'll probably spend my money on a different bestiary!
Again,
Thankyou for your help :D
Liam said:
The SRD has 129 monsters, the Monster Manual has 145 monsters (on the Roll20 compendium, at least).
That number sounds exceedingly low. I'm at a better place for doing an estimate now (I was traveling before). It should be well over 400 for the monster manual. At a rough count, I come up with 448 unique statblocks for the monster manual, all with art, lore and tokens. For the SRD, I come up with 317, again, rough count. So the difference is somewhere along the lines of 130 extra monsters in the Monster Manual, again, all with art, lore and tokens.
Liam said:
Weirdly, the SRD has "Zombie" and the Monster Manual doesn't on Roll20.
The zombie is included in the Monster Manual:
The filters for source are very... quirky to be kind... on the Compendium page of monsters. Limiting to the Monster Manual includes a lot of extra stuff.
Ah yeah, you're completely right Keith - even in another post I made a little while ago (https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/10874193/my-next-purchase/?pageforid=10876548#post-10876548) I mentioned these numbers for statblocks available in Roll20:
I forgot, for some weird reason the ingame filter for monsters has "Languages: No Language" selected by default and I forgot to remove that from the filter for my last post in this thread. (And of course regarding Zombies, the Monster Manual one actually has "Languages: understands all languages it spoke in life but can't speak", hence why that filter mattered.)
Luckily in my other post linked above there is a list of how many monsters you get from each compendium purchase on Roll20, so that should help make a decision.