"Exclusive new pages from D&D’s next sourcebook, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes "

[Parmandur]

Which means we won't be getting many "A" creatures, as the Astral Dreadnought is on page 117. Well, let's hope for archons in the next monster book I guess...

Well, it was known that Celestials wouldn't be much of a thing.

It tells us that Halflings & Gnomes rate around 15 pages between them, and the Elf, Dwarf and Gith chapters combined end at page ~98 after starting in the mid-30's, so about 20 pages each for those chapters on average.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Well, it was known that Celestials wouldn't be much of a thing.

It tells us that Halflings & Gnomes rate around 15 pages between them, and the Elf, Dwarf and Gith chapters combined end at page ~98 after starting in the mid-30's, so about 20 pages each for those chapters on average.

It wasn't known, all though it was fairly widely surmised. I was holding out against all hope, especially for some low-level archons like the lantern and hound that would be summonable, but that's obviously quite unlikely at this point.

Conversely, this, along with the fact they are obviously holding some of the major Archdevils back for a later book, makes me think we could very well still see a full "planar" book in the future...


Also, I would like to see a numbered page after Moloch's two, which is the highest page number we currently know (178). We can figure out much about the A - D part of the bestiary from what's been revealed so far, but the details of what's after that, and whether the bestiary fills up the remainder of the book, are still important unknowns at the moment. Can it be next week already, so I can go to my FLGS and pick my copy up?

 

[gyor]

It's a non-horrible picture of a halfling for 5e! Holy cow, they finally made a non-horrible picture of a halfling!

I think they heard it when almost everyone HATED the Halfling art for 5e.

 

[gyor]

It wasn't known, all though it was fairly widely surmised. I was holding out against all hope, especially for some low-level archons like the lantern and hound that would be summonable, but that's obviously quite unlikely at this point.

Conversely, this, along with the fact they are obviously holding some of the major Archdevils back for a later book, makes me think we could very well still see a full "planar" book in the future...


Also, I would like to see a numbered page after Moloch's two, which is the highest page number we currently know (178). We can figure out much about the A - D part of the bestiary from what's been revealed so far, but the details of what's after that, and whether the bestiary fills up the remainder of the book, are still important unknowns at the moment. Can it be next week already, so I can go to my FLGS and pick my copy up?

Mike Mearls actually said there wouldn't be much Celestials in the book, I can see Celestial Eldarin being the only ones honestly.

 

[gyor]

I noticed Charmalaine mentioned, she is a Greyhawk not Forgotten Realms (at least traditionally), but who knows, post Sundering.

She is Halfling hero goddess of warnings known as the Lucky Ghost.

This is the second confirmation of a none FR deity in the book after Vulkoor.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

So, that gnome page has the svirfneblin magic feat. Are they providing deep gnome stats for the third time? Maybe when 6e comes around, they'll just go ahead and put them in th PHB.

 

[Parmandur]

So, that gnome page has the svirfneblin magic feat. Are they providing deep gnome stats for the third time? Maybe when 6e comes around, they'll just go ahead and put them in th PHB.

Yup, and Duergar, too.

 

[flametitan]

I noticed Charmalaine mentioned, she is a Greyhawk not Forgotten Realms (at least traditionally), but who knows, post Sundering.

She is Halfling hero goddess of warnings known as the Lucky Ghost.

This is the second confirmation of a none FR deity in the book after Vulkoor.

Well, this book is named after a Greyhawk figure, and nothing in its marketing suggested it's an FR book, but setting agnostic. The most we know about specific worlds being mentioned is that the in the drow video, JC said they would touch upon how the elven origins might manifest differently on different worlds.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Well, this book is named after a Greyhawk figure, and nothing in its marketing suggested it's an FR book, but setting agnostic. The most we know about specific worlds being mentioned is that the in the drow video, JC said they would touch upon how the elven origins might manifest differently on different worlds.

They tend to be setting agnostic, no matter whose name is in the title, tending to blend things from various settings in a single book. Volo's, for example, while having a titular Forgotten Realms character, did draw heavily from Realms lore in the giant chapter, but completely contradicted that lore in the yuan-ti chapter. Basically, they seem to be trying to present an interesting take on a given race/story, from all sorts of various sources (or, like Volo's gnolls, coming up with something interesting, but entirely new).

 

[flametitan]

They tend to be setting agnostic, no matter whose name is in the title, tending to blend things from various settings in a single book. Volo's, for example, while having a titular Forgotten Realms character, did draw heavily from Realms lore in the giant chapter, but completely contradicted that lore in the yuan-ti chapter. Basically, they seem to be trying to present an interesting take on a given race/story, from all sorts of various sources (or, like Volo's gnolls, coming up with something interesting, but entirely new).

Oh definitely. I was pointing out that nothing released about this book indicated it would conform to FR lore; I just neglected to mention previous precedence.