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In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending November 20, 2016", Volo's Guide to Monsters was #13 in "Hardcover Nonfiction". [13] For The A.V. Club, Nick Wanserski wrote that "what I’ve enjoyed about Volo’s is that it understands how role-playing game source books, at their best, serve two distinct purposes. As a direct campaign ...
And that, for me, is the other hand: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes feels like a book you need to build your campaign around. The two previous sourcebooks of its type, Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Volo's Guide to Monsters, are both books that I use constantly as a Dungeon Master. The former is a rules expansion and clarification that helps ...
This book expanded on the original monster format by including the stat lines on the same page as the monsters' descriptions and introducing more stats, expanding the length of most monster descriptions, and featuring illustrations for most of the monsters. [26] The book contains a treasure chart and an index of major listings. [26]
The Monster Manual was the first hardcover D&D book and includes monsters derived from mythology and folklore, as well as creatures created specifically for D&D. Creature descriptions include game-specific statistics (such as the monster's level or number of hit dice), a brief description of its habits and habitats, and typically an image of ...
A fecund race, orcs often breed with other humanoid creatures. Known crossbreeds include: Half-orcs: These orc-human crossbreeds are most often born in as the unfortunate byproduct of raids in border areas between human and orc cultures. Despite rejection from both sides of their heritage, many half-orcs achieve renown.
Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).
Armor class (AC) is a rating used to determine how difficult it is to damage a creature/character. It is based on several factors such as a creature's natural aversion to physical injury, magical enhancements, and any protective garments worn.
Introduced ten creatures from the Spelljammer setting to the 5th Edition. [7] [10] Monstrous Compendium Vol 2: Dragonlance Creatures: F. Wesley Schneider, Makenzie De Armas, Ron Lundeen, Jeremy Crawford December 5, 2022: Introduced ten creatures from the Dragonlance campaign setting to the 5th Edition. [11] Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft ...