D&D 5E D&D Beyond Confirms Monsters of the Multiverse's May Standalone Release

Monsters of the Multiverse comes out this month as part of a gift set along with Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. However, if you don't need those older books, D&D Beyond has confirmed that Monsters of the Multiverse will be available separately on May 17th.

DDB's entry refers to the digital release, but these are typically timed to match the hardcovers. You can preorder the digital version from DDB now.

The book compiles monsters from Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, and updates them to match WotC's current format; additionally it tweaks stats where needed to ensure monsters are worthy of their Challenge Rating, as some D&D monsters have been felt to be underpowered. In addition, it compiles over 30 races previously published in 5E D&D books, also updated to the current formats.

D&D 5E - Full List of Monsters in Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse contains revamped stat blocks for 260 monsters previously published in previous Dungeons & Dragons 5E books. The list was compiled by YouTuber Bob Worldbuilder based on some blurry screenshots originally shared by Nerd Immersion (see the video...

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D&D 5E - A Compilation of all the Race Changes in Monsters of the Multiverse

Over on Reddit, user KingJackel went through the video leak which came out a few days ago and manually compiled a list of all the changes to races in the book. The changes are quite extensive, with only the fairy and harengon remaining unchanged. The book contains 33 races in total, compiled and...

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Update! WotC has confirmed the standalone hardcover release date is May 17th.

 

[embee]

If the choice is between boring logistics and a conspiracy, always go with the conspiracy.

Why not both?

 

[embee]

Unfortunately, I think your analysis is correct. OTOH, if they proceed in this fashion, it would seem that there would be very little incentive for owners of the previous books on the platform to buy this one as well.

No one ever went bankrupt pandering to completionist tendencies of hobbyists.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

No one ever went bankrupt pandering to completionist tendencies of hobbyists.

You called?

 

[Reynard]

Why not both?

My guess is that most real world conspiracies are based around boring logistics.

 

[embee]

My guess is that most real world conspiracies are based around boring logistics.

The conspiracies that successfully manage logistics are the conspiracies you never hear about.

 

[darjr]

Or the conspiracy theorists are just dumb.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Looking on DDB there's zero information about what they're going to do, they cancelled the normal dev update where they might have said, and they've put the book on sale, full price, no discounts, without explaining how they're going to handle it, or indeed commenting in any way which might inform that.

As you can imagine the locals are getting pretty rowdy over there, they're not happy. It's been pointed out that previously DDB has always taken the "overwriting" approach with mechanical changes (with updates to Artificer/Bladedancer in Tashas for example overwriting earlier versions in SCAG and Eberron), but also that it's really weird that they're seemingly actively avoiding saying how this will work, and yet are selling it - and they point-blank refuse to do refunds (certainly as a matter of course).

 

[lkj]

Looking on DDB there's zero information about what they're going to do, they cancelled the normal dev update where they might have said, and they've put the book on sale, full price, no discounts, without explaining how they're going to handle it, or indeed commenting in any way which might inform that.

As you can imagine the locals are getting pretty rowdy over there, they're not happy. It's been pointed out that previously DDB has always taken the "overwriting" approach with mechanical changes (with updates to Artificer/Bladedancer in Tashas for example overwriting earlier versions in SCAG and Eberron), but also that it's really weird that they're seemingly actively avoiding saying how this will work, and yet are selling it - and they point-blank refuse to do refunds (certainly as a matter of course).

How it's presented on DDB is almost certainly tied to their license agreement with WotC. WotC has a fair bit of control about how and what they present. The fact that they aren't answering suggests that they can't. They're planning a dev update this week. If they haven't announced the plan, I suspect that's were you'll get to hear Joe Starr say 'Love to tell you but we can't. We'll get back to you.'

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[Nikosandros]

How it's presented on DDB is almost certainly tied to their license agreement with WotC. WotC has a fair bit of control about how and what they present. The fact that they aren't answering suggests that they can't. They're planning a dev update this week. If they haven't announced the plan, I suspect that's were you'll get to hear Joe Starr say 'Love to tell you but we can't. We'll get back to you.'

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Yes, that's likely. The optics are not good on DDB in this instance, but I also have the impression that WotC is leaving them hang out to dry-

 

[Scribe]

Why not? Based on all the complaints we've been hearing constantly about all the new stuff WotC keeps making, it's apparently not like anyone is actually going to want whatever that May book might be.

Always a chance they do the right thing.