Volo's Preview at Kotaku: Flinds, Yuan-Ti, & More

Kotaku has posted a new preview of Volo's Guide to Monsters. This one looks at gnolls, lizardfolk, flinds, and yuan-ti. Don't forget to check out all the previous previews of the upcoming 224-page monster book for D&D 5th Edition - the froghemoth, giants and orcs, mindflayers and beholders, fire giant dreadnoughts, giant lore, and the book's preface. Credit goes to EN World member Entsuropi for spotting this one!

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[Dualazi]

This preview actually does make me tentatively more excited with Volo's, it's really nice to see big enemies like the flind that can have a multitude of powerful attack options without resorting to giving them a laundry list of spells. The Annis hag in one of the other previews was solid as well, so I hope to be pleasantly incorrect about my somewhat doom-and-gloom outlook on the product.

 

[dave2008]

In the first gnoll preview I just noticed that maw demons will be included in chapter 3. I guess I wrongly assumed we wouldn't be getting any more demons in volo's.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Man, this really makes me hope that they will one day rerelease the Monster Manual with updated and interesting monsters, like they did with the 4e Monster Vaults

 

[Queer Venger]

MUST. HAVE. NOW!!!

 

[Willie the Duck]

I'm just hoping that they will have a pronunciation guide for Flind, so that we can settle that one once and for all.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I'm just hoping that they will have a pronunciation guide for Flind, so that we can settle that one once and for all.

Just like GIF, I wouldn't bet on it

 

[Willie the Duck]

Just like GIF, I wouldn't bet on it

Oh, I was kidding. We're role-players. Settling things once and for all is against our nature.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

I'm just hoping that they will have a pronunciation guide for Flind, so that we can settle that one once and for all.

I think you are in like flind.

 

[Azzy]

Yeah, so I finally pre-ordered this yesterday. *sigh*

Tuan-ti are some of my favorite D&D monsters, so this was a treat. I hope they include the histachii also.

 

[Myrdin Potter]

I am happy that they are both not flooding the market with books and that they are making their releases pretty high quality and interesting. Plus, the major 3PP seem to have stepped up their games as well.