In which I make the baseless argument that this is the first Monster Manual.

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we're going back in time to 1887 to check out J.W. Buel's unhinged tome of natural history, Sea and Land. 800 pages, with 300 illustrations depicting the natural world at its hungriest. A glorious thing.

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