Disclaimer II: The majority of this review is opinion; your actual enjoyment of this product should vary accordingly.

The Creature Collection III: Savage Bestiary is a revised d20 system monster collection, gathering a large number of beasties for use in one's Scarred Lands campaign. In the wake of the Divine War, several continents were affected by the passing of the titans. This volume of the Creature Collection series focuses mostly on the new Termana and Asherak areas of the Scarred Lands.

Like a number of books under the Sword & Sorcery label, this book has been formed by a number of fan submissions. Several of the work's authors have their beasts claiming responsibility for one area's destruction as opposed to another creature that is similar, but not quite the same. While this could be seen as a bad thing to most collections, the lack of one set point of view helps set the book out from others as a tool that may help referees get ideas for their games.

From the book's unusual and unique spontaneous golems to the undead collecting phoenixes, this folio of monsters has some interesting ideas for new creatures. Unfortunately, this book isn't all new ideas the run rampant with the imagination, some seem like tired, repeated ideas-maybe I've had my fill of lycanthropes (the wereviper, in this collection) and had one too many hits with the "really cool, really powerful" undead (the overghast, poisonbearer ghouls). Plus, this collection seems to love the old Dragonlance draconian death effects-as several monsters explode when they die.

Some creatures seem to use the book's new subtypes as an excuse to come up with them, does the game need several "angel" subtyped creatures just because the celestials here are angels? Also, do we need a new outsider subtype of "daemon?" On the surface, these new subtypes don't add much to the game overall, but helps clutter the growing depth of new things to "sourcebook out." This collection feels like a fan sourcebook of monsters, as to was intended to. Sometimes, the writing doesn't quite hit the right marks that one might think would be needed in this hardback accessory.

Overall, this book presents some cool monsters for the revised d20 system; however, the book's feel is sometimes undercut by the rough way the book's fan wrote their section of one monster versus another. Its not a bad investment if one is craving more monsters for their games, but sometimes the monsters will feel flat if used straight from their text entries.