The d20 Menace Manual is a listing of statistics for animals, aliens, and other potential enemies, for use in the d20 Modern

D20 Modern

d20 Modern is a roleplaying game designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan. It was published by Wizards of the Coast in November 2002, and uses the d20 System...

 role-playing game

Role-playing game

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. It also contains various d20 conversions of monsters from the Alternity

Alternity

Alternity is a science fiction role-playing game published by TSR in 1998...

campaign setting Dark•Matter

Dark•Matter

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, including Mothfolk

Mothman

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The book is divided into three chapters:

• Monsters
• NPCs
• Factions

The monsters section consists of the supernatural foes of the book, such as aliens and demons. The NPCs section contains statistics for various ordinary people of various levels of skill. The factions section gives example groups for the heroes to face, ranging for terrorist organizations to recording companies. Some of these are more complete than others, showing how they could fit into premade settings and giving sample NPCs.