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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7886429" data-attributes="member: 7015558">The size here is completely unimportant. The biggest book as we know is the Monster Manual, so if we are going by what the size than we would guess it is another monster book. But it can be literally any type of book, how big it is doesn't hint at anything.Back to why the maps are important; if I'm tying a new dice set to a new book, I'm not going to be putting in materials that are newer unless I have no choice. The Descent dice set includes material entirely new to that book, including the Avernus map and the concept art of the devils/demons.If this book was a guide to the rest of FR, it would include maps to other regions, and those maps would be in this dice set. Instead, they are using the map of the Sword Coast and Waterdeep, which are at least a full year old. This is evidence that there are no new regional maps in the book, which would be extremely strange (and a complete ripoff) if it was a setting guide to the Forgotten Realms beyond the Sword Coast.The name itself is weird. Based on previous books, all we know for sure is that this book is set in the Forgotten Realms. But it also has Laeral Silverhand in the title, similar to books like Xanathar's, Volo's, and Mordenkainen's. The naming convention does not perfectly align any specific book type, and parallels several very different books.The absence of new maps in this dice set nearly confirms that this is not a setting book. What it actually is I'm not sure, but if I were to put money on it, I'd say it is the collection of adventures, plus new monster statblocks, plus maybe some new lore, maybe even player options if we're lucky.As you say, the book is big so can fit all of this material within it.</blockquote>

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