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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7733760" data-attributes="member: 37579">Volo's Guide to Monsters was a great name that explained what the book was about: monsters and a guide to them. It set you up for the flavour and contents. The book was focused, with monstrouseas PC races. Tales from the Yawning Portal was so-so. You can tell it was a tacked on name they came up with at the last minute. It really needed a map of the tavern and an introduction to each dungeon as told by the people of the tavernXanathar's Guide to Everything was such a terrible name. It gave you zero idea what was in it. Player book? DM book? It really sounded more guidebook, a sequel to Dungeonology. This just continues that tradition. They're so desperate to be original and not use old names that they're doing a terrible job of naming the books. This sounds more like a Monster Manual that Volo's Guide to Monsters. It doesn't imply anything but monster. And, really, after VGtM, Tome of Beats, the upcoming Creature Codex, Fifth Edition Foes, Tome of Horrors 5e I don't really need a lot of monsters. I need more lore, expanded rules for planes, and a better presentation of that information than in 1e. Maybe some variant monster rules for planar threats.</blockquote>