#D&D MONSTER RACES SKIN#

Kenku seem especially interesting to me: a long time ago, one of them tried to steal from a powerful deity. The forest-protecting Firbolgs, the wingless, birdlike Kenku, the cold-blooded Lizardfolk, the lithe feline Tabaxi, and the aquatic Triton all make for good additions to what players can choose from. The angelic Aasimar are more fleshed out here than in the Dungeon MasterвЂ™s Guide, and the huge, mountain-dwelling Goliaths are no longer relegated solely to the downloadable Elemental Evil PlayerвЂ™s Campaign. I was expecting only a few, but there are seven new (well five, if youвЂ™re counting downloadable supplements) races and six monster races. In the second chapter, there are new character race options. Also included in this chapter are giants, gnolls, goblinoids, hags, kobolds, mind flayers, orcs, and yaun-ti. Seeing so much information on one subset of enemy really got my creative juices flowing, and I almost want to make a beholder campaign now.

#D&D MONSTER RACES SKIN#

There are also rolling tables so you can make a beholder on the fly (traits like skin color, texture, eyestalk shape, and the like) and a sample map of one of their lairs. This allows for a more in-depth look at how eye-beasts reproduce, behave around minions, how they fight and live their daily lives. Instead of just the few pages beholders have in the Monster Manual, they have thirteen. The monster lore chapter is a sort of deep dive into some of the most iconic D&DВ monsters. VoloвЂ™s Guide is divided into three chapters: monster lore, character races, and a bestiary. Unlike the Sword Coast AdventurerвЂ™s Guide, the focus is still on material to improve your game, but these story blurbs add so much character to the book and make it a more entertaining read.

Because of this, thereвЂ™s the D&DВ equivalent of post-it notes with ElminsterвЂ™s notes throughout the book disputing what Volo has to say. Elminster, the Sage of Shadowdale, isnвЂ™t so sure that VoloвЂ™s gotten everything right.

Volothamp Geddarm, a traveling scholar whoвЂ™s known for not always being completely accurate in his writings, has collected his observations on monsters into a book. Instead of being a collection of beasties ripe for plucking and placing into a campaign, VoloвЂ™s GuideВ is presented as an in-universe text. Wizards of the CoastsвЂ™ newest book VoloвЂ™s Guide to Monsters combines the granular nature of stats with even more narrative, and itвЂ™s all the better for it. Each creature comes with stat blocks to make them playable for your adventures, but itвЂ™s always the story hooks that dig deep into me, helping me to conjure half-formed inklings of worlds and scenarios I can drag my players into. The Monster ManualВ type of books have always been my favorite to flip through, especially with the Fifth Edition version. Opening it for the first time, the spine cracking a bit, the pages resistant to turning - it all makes for a bizarrely tactile feeling that I look forward to each time. Picking up a new Dungeons & Dragons book is one of my favorite experiences. Stat blocks for the things that go bump in the night

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