D&D 5E Fizban Is In The Wild -- With the Table of Contents!

Some people have received their copies of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, and have posted photos (including the table of contents!) online!

 

[Azzy]

Is Aremag new? Is he a friend to children everywhere?

Edited to add: He must be a dragon turtle...

 

[pukunui]

… and the revised Kobold race (holding out hope for Monsters of the Multiverse to contain it and the Hobgoblin of the Feywild)

I thought they made it pretty clear there isn’t going to be anything new in that book. It’s simply an consolidation / update of existing material.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Maybe they tried that at some point, but found Bedtiary entries for Yellow, Mitral, etc. Dragons became a bit repetitive, when some conversion notes might do.

That would be pretty useful if they did so. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any indication of that outside the song and steel sidebar. But I would definitely be up for a supplementary DMs Guild release for something like that.

(Although browns, with their vestigial wings, are fairly different from other dragon types. It could be done, but it wouldn't be short and tidy compared to other types).

 

[Parmandur]

I thought they made it pretty clear there isn’t going to be anything new in that book. It’s simply an consolidation / update of existing material.

They might consider those Kobold and Hobgoblin options to be pseido-errata.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Saridor does seem to get significant attention in the book, so the lack of a system block is interesting. Perhaps Saridor is represented as a Gem Great Wyrm...?

Perhaps, but he's on basically the same level as his parents, Tiamat and Bahamut! He's the God of Gem Dragons! I really wish that he got stats in this book.

As to every Dragon type that has ever been in D&D...they did get some deep cuts in here, and I will wager we will see suggestions for some others as with Steel Dragons. An awful lot of Dragons throughout the games history are a bit...redundant.

I agree that some of them are redundant, but IMO, Steel Dragons are really cool. They're spies for Lord Ao, live dozens of lifetimes Shapechanged as humanoids, can have humanoid children without them being Half-Dragons, can retain their draconic powers while Shape Changed, and are super secretive. I personally don't think they're redundant.

 

[Parmandur]

Perhaps, but he's on basically the same level as his parents, Tiamat and Bahamut! He's the God of Gem Dragons! I really wish that he got stats in this book.

I agree that some of them are redundant, but IMO, Steel Dragons are really cool. They're spies for Lord Ao, live dozens of lifetimes Shapechanged as humanoids, can have humanoid children without them being Half-Dragons, can retain their draconic powers while Shape Changed, and are super secretive. I personally don't think they're redundant.

But I mean...is he, really?

I'm not saying that other Dragon types aren't interesting...but there are limits to what can be sufficiently differentiated at a certain point.

 

[Azzy]

but the one I'm most upset about is the fact that we don't have stats for Sardior. Gem Dragons will never be equal until we have monster stats for their God! Without them, how are players supposed to kill him!?!?

(/s for the last bit, but the rest of the post is completely serious.)

I'm irked that we we get Aspects of Tiamat and Bahamut, but not for Sardior. Sardior always get the shaft.

 

[pukunui]

They might consider those Kobold and Hobgoblin options to be pseido-errata.

They weren’t ever officially published, though. I am fairly certain we won’t see anything that was only ever released in UA.

Consider MotM simply as an opportunity for them to redo all the existing non-PHB races in the new format (as well as reformat and rebalance various non-MM monsters). Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

But I mean...is he, really?

Yeah. He's the God of Gem Dragons, one of the 3 main types of dragons.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah. He's the God of Gem Dragons, one of the 3 main types of dragons.

I mean...are they, really?