The first two books of the set were strange, but this one was the strangest. I have never heard about this strange thing in D&D where when the party wanders around outside of a city, they might get close to a castle and if they did the inhabitants might come out and attack them. And those inhabitants might be humans, or monsters or anything really.

The dungeon stuff was strange too. He talked about dungeon levels getting boring because the party had cleared them out so the DM needed to restock them. He talked about trying to make sure that the players could NOT map the dungeon accurately.

Two strangest/funniest things:

1) This was at the end of a section describing sea monsters -
"Final Note: If sea monsters or monsters of the seas do not get a ship, perhaps it will sail off the edge of the world!"

I guess it was a kind of possible adventure hook.

2) At the very end of the book the last paragraph is entitled "Afterward" instead of "Afterword". Which is a pretty hilarious grammar mistake. But also in the "Afterward" he encourages players NOT to contact them with rules questions, but to figure things out for themselves "for everything herein is fantastic" and "why have us do any more of your imagining for you?" ( )