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?

 

[SkidAce]

I'm hard pressed to think of a less interesting page to preview...

copyright page?

 

[Prakriti]

https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_preview_duergar.pdf

So... who has good un-blurring software?

 

[Demetrios1453]

I'm hard pressed to think of a less interesting page to preview...

Yeah, it wasn't the most exciting page!

But it's useful in that it gives us some idea of how much content we might be getting in each section.

 

[Mistwell]

I like the Gollum reference in the quirks section.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

It seems like they're giving the races a bit of the class quirk tables that they had in XGtE.

Excellent.

 

[vecna00]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned today's Unearthed Arcana, even outside this thread. It's a preview of a page from MToF, with some duergar personality/background charts:

http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/mordenkainen%E2%80%99s-tome-foes-preview

https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_preview_duergar.pdf


So, this is page 84, and is in Chapter 3 of the book "Dwarves and Duergar".

A few days ago, we got this preview:

https://twitter.com/NathanBStewart/status/971522093262151680/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sageadvice.eu%2F2018%2F03%2F08%2Fgith-characters-revealed%2F

...which shows us that page 96 is in Chapter 4 "Gith and their Endless War". We know that Chapter 1 is on the Blood War, and presumably Chapter 2 is Drow vs Elves. Given the page counts of these previews, I'm guessing we're going to get a pretty substantial chapter on the Blood War to start this book off...

I'm appreciative of their preview of the book I'm excited to purchase, but I'm a tad salty it's not a normal UA

 

[QuietBrowser]

I'm hard pressed to think of a less interesting page to preview...

Amen. I mean, seriously, I can get them being tired, but surely they could have given us something with meat in it! This'd be a dull page anyway, but to tie it to duergar? Do you know how boring duergar are? They used to share the niche of "The Underdark Dwarf Strain" with the non-evil Deep Dwarves until 4th edition, for spit's sake!

Ai-yi-yah... surely they could have given us something better than this? How about a look at the PC stats for one of the new races in the game? A new monster? Anything would have been better than this, surely!

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

From some of the replies to this page tease, I am thinking no one read the text on the preview page and just clicked on the link for the page image. This was not just some random page, as it says:

"This page—showing some duergar-themed tables—gives you a taste of the sorts of tables you’ll find in Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, which is out this May. The book’s tables will help you flesh out different aspects of your D&D campaigns and characters."

So this is an example page of the kinds of tables we can expect in the book for all the races included in the book.

 

[Herosmith14]

Amen. I mean, seriously, I can get them being tired, but surely they could have given us something with meat in it! This'd be a dull page anyway, but to tie it to duergar? Do you know how boring duergar are? They used to share the niche of "The Underdark Dwarf Strain" with the non-evil Deep Dwarves until 4th edition, for spit's sake!

Ai-yi-yah... surely they could have given us something better than this? How about a look at the PC stats for one of the new races in the game? A new monster? Anything would have been better than this, surely!

If I remember correctly, for Volos and Xanathars, all we got for page drops was lore, and that make sense, you don't want lots of free $ stuff out there.

 

[Demetrios1453]

So, from Morris' "Is Spelljammer Coming to 5e" thread, we now know that we'll be seeing the Giff (the humanoid hippos from Spelljammer) in MToF.