Product page for Volo's Guide to Monsters updated

Oh that is a nice preface.

 

[Morrus]

Its popularity is do to the creatives, artists and authors, who pushed for 5e, when the Bean counters weren't inclined to do it. Who pushed to make the Devil You Know a thing, when the Bean Counters were going to allow it to end in Ashes of the Tyrants, a cliff hanger.

These Bean Counters ended the Forgotten Realms novels, I absolutely hate the selfish, ignorant bean counters. I hope you understand why I'm mad at them.

I understand that you're mad at them. Your choice of terminology makes that very clear.

I hope you understand that "gyor is mad at them" =/= "the company is being mismanaged".

 

[gyor]

Mismanaged how? On what evidence?

No FRCG, the end of the novel line, releases turning into a dribble, bad decisions all. For the record I like 5e.

 

[gyor]

For the record I don't mean every bean counter, I mean the bean counter who cancel the novel line, who made other bad decisions I have distain for.

Perhaps I should have said I dislike many of the decisions made by this particular person, who ever they are, leaving me feeling very resentful.

Anyways I apologize for the thread drift, perhaps its best to focus back on topic.

Anyways Kobolds were meantioned as being playable, briefly during the latest podcast, before the Lore You Should Know segment

 

[gyor]

"Chapter 2: Character Races presents character races that are some of the more distinctive race options in the D&D multiverse."

That the races chapter mention distictive races in the multiverse, not Faerun is telling. I think there is a chance that Warforged, Changeling, Kender, Muls, could be in it, at least as quick races.

Of course it could be refering to Planar creatures like Shadar Kai, but my instinct is they're going to throw a bone to fans of other settings.

Oh and the pod cast confirmed Knbolds and Shadow Mastiffs are in the book.

No one thinks there the reference to Multiversal Races means possibly Muls, Warforged, ect...?

I mean otherwise I think they would have said Faerunian Races.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

No FRCG, the end of the novel line, releases turning into a dribble, bad decisions all. For the record I like 5e.

I...ok. IMO those are all either good decisions, or just perfectly reasobnable decisions that I wouldn't have made, not...mismanagement.

The game and hobby are doing better than ever. Wotc is definately being managed competently.

 

[Ath'kethin]

Wait, Volo supposedly wrote the "guide". How in the nine hells could he met and describe dudes like warforged, kender & co.?

Because "everything is Forgotten Realms" now? It's a slight step up from 4e's "everything is core" approach, but not by much.

Never mind the fact that Elminster has in-game instances of freely traveling between worlds/breaking continuities; maybe he just took another of Greenwood's alter egos along this time.

 

[Parmandur]

No one thinks there the reference to Multiversal Races means possibly Muls, Warforged, ect...?



I mean otherwise I think they would have said Faerunian Races.

They have made it clear they want to make their books usable to homebrewers; I'd say that's signaling "this book is not just for Realms fans;"

 

[Parmandur]

Wait, Volo supposedly wrote the "guide". How in the nine hells could he met and describe dudes like warforged, kender & co.?

They could have met in the Nine Hells; that connects to the Realms and everywhere else in the 5E D&D multiverse centered on Sigil, the Core setting.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Wait, Volo supposedly wrote the "guide". How in the nine hells could he met and describe dudes like warforged, kender & co.?

Others have mentioned ways, but here's another: we already know that the neogi will be profiled in the book, so presumably Spelljamming is still a thing.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I want good rules for spelljamming and all that.