Coming in May: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes! [UPDATED!]

So they just gave the title and showed the cover mock-ups; no specific info till Monday?

 

[gyor]

I may be wrong about this (still new to DND, don't k ow any past edition lore) but the cover person looks like an Erinyes to me. I know they typically have angel wings, but other than that, I would think it's a deva-turned-devil.


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Eyrines have feathered wings, except in 4e where they were ugly and brutish.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

It seems like it wouldn't take much to give celestial elves a little more juice to stand out from their humanoid counterparts. Something like:

Blessing of Arborea: each celestial elf can do one of the following:

Cast Investiture of Flame once per day
Cast Investiture of Stone once per day
Cast Investiture of Ice once per day
Cast Investiture of Wind once per day
Use his/her action to polymorph into a sprite (or back) (no limit per times per day)

Sure for a celestial elf archmage, that isn't super impressive, but for a celestial elf berserker or knight (or even commoner), that could make a big difference in play.

 

[GarrettKP]

It seems like it wouldn't take much to give celestial elves a little more juice to stand out from their humanoid counterparts. Something like:

Blessing of Arborea: each celestial elf can do one of the following:

Cast Investiture of Flame once per day
Cast Investiture of Stone once per day
Cast Investiture of Ice once per day
Cast Investiture of Wind once per day
Use his/her action to polymorph into a sprite (or back) (no limit per times per day)

Sure for a celestial elf archmage, that isn't super impressive, but for a celestial elf berserker or knight (or even commoner), that could make a big difference in play.

Way too powerful for a Racial ability. No race lets you cast anything more than a 3rd level spell once a day. This lets them cast 4 level 6 spells and a level 4 spell once a day each. Definition of OP.

Now for a NPC or monster stat block? Ya that is fine.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I certainly hope this book brings up Pale Night, the Mother of Demons and mother of Grazz't and other Demon Lords who's true form is so horrific reality itself rejects it.

One of the points brought up about the Blood War in the past was that the unified army of Fiends almost destroyed the Upper Planes and all the Celestials, and that the Celestials are certainly involved behind the scenes in ensuring the Blood War continues so that they don't face Armageddon again.

As for monsters that would appear in the book I think that the Molydeus would most certainly appear, as it's one of the powerful demon types that was excluded from the Monster Manual. There's only 4 types of Yugoloths in the Monster Manual, so things types like the Piscoloth and Dergholoth would probably be included.

In terms of the PC races, I think it's going to be somewhat disappointing to me if they're using the exact content they were using in the recent UA articles. They probably should have done something more substantial about the Planetouched in general and consolidated all the many many varieities, which nothing suggests they're doing.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

Way too powerful for a Racial ability. No race lets you cast anything more than a 3rd level spell once a day. This lets them cast 4 level 6 spells and a level 4 spell once a day each. Definition of OP.

Sorry, I should have been more clear, this is an ability for celestial elf NPC's, not humanoid elves. Since so far in 5e, PC's racial options have only been humanoids, it would not be for them.

Also, to be specific, it only lets a given celestial elf cast one spell per day.

 

[GarrettKP]

Sorry, I should have been more clear, this is an ability for celestial elf NPC's, not humanoid elves. Since so far in 5e, PC's racial options have only been humanoids, it would not be for them.

Also, to be specific, it only lets a given celestial elf cast one spell per day.

Gotcha. Ya I wasn't sure which way you were going with it.

 

[Parmandur]

In terms of the PC races, I think it's going to be somewhat disappointing to me if they're using the exact content they were using in the recent UA articles. They probably should have done something more substantial about the Planetouched in general and consolidated all the many many varieities, which nothing suggests they're doing.

I see no reason to suggest that they aren't doing so, and in the recent Beyond Tieflings video Mearls specifically brought up Planetouched as a separate race.

 

[GarrettKP]

I see no reason to suggest that they aren't doing so, and in the recent Beyond Tieflings video Mearls specifically brought up Planetouched as a separate race.

They also said that other Races they haven't teased yet will be in the book. So a planetouched race is still very possible.

 

[gyor]

They also said that other Races they haven't teased yet will be in the book. So a planetouched race is still very possible.

Where did they say that?

 

[GarrettKP]

Where did they say that?

IIRC they said so during the Dragon Talk segment with Crawford and Irwin.