Dungeons & Dragons packs over 500 creatures into the brand new Monster Manual

No adventure without monsters! With the new Monster Manual you not only get more of them, but you should also be able to incorporate them into your adventures more easily.

A D&D manual without dragons? Unthinkable! A red dragon greets you with its fire breath.

The roads to Heroes' Olympus are paved with some of the nastiest monsters you can imagine! If you want to make a name for yourself in a role-playing game, and especially in Dungeons & Dragons, you need worthy opponents. That's why it belongs toTrinity of rulebooks in D&DIn addition to the player and DM manual, there is always the large monster manual.

The current edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been republished since 2024 and all rules have been fundamentally revised. After the English versions of the first two manuals were published in 2024, the new Monster Manual is scheduled to follow in 2025 and will once again deliver hundreds of crawling, crawling, sliming, flying and of course fire-breathing horrors.

In a presentation behind closed doors, the D&D publisher has now shown how the new Monster Manual wants to take the game management of this world by the hand and which completely new enemies it contains.A total of 500 monstrosities are waiting for you here.

We summarize the most important information about the new manual.

This is in the new Monster Manual

Traditionally, the task of a monster manual is not just to present players with a long list of possible opponents, complete with tons of properties, skills and special abilities.

The Monster Manual is intended to help a game manager to meaningfully incorporate these monsters into their adventures. To this end, the new Monster Manual is structured as follows:

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