D&D 5E (2014) What Will Be The Next D&D Books To Be Released In The Coming Years?

[Mind of tempest]

Yeah, they said something like 40 pages of monsters.

a lot of monsters.

 

[R_J_K75]

The first and second ones were the MCs with proper monsters, and honestly, a lot of them don't need to be converted, IMO. Some of them are redundant: There's already animated armor and helmed horrors; they don't need doomguard as well; and assassin imps are just imps, really; and do you really need both alven and pixies, or reavers and sahuagin? Animators are basically undead living animate objects. There's also "greater" or more powerful "Ravenloft" monsters, which aren't necessary now that it's easier to increase the power of a monster , and hopefully they'll give us a bunch of Van Richten-style ways to modify monsters with special unique traits.

Some of the undead in there are basically other undead but with a slight twist or in a different environment (like bowlyn). Other monsters are more like effects (bussengeist, those viruses) or magic items (wishing imps) than actual monsters. Some are very domain specific: if they don't do Forlorn (can't remember if they are), would they do goblyns?

And I doubt they're going to do Darklings again.

I mean, there's totally still a ton of RL monsters that deserve to be converted, but I'm not sure there's an entire MM's worth, considering they haven't put out a generic MMII yet.

You could be right. Id like to see more support for a campaign setting book whether its a MM or some other type of book.

 

[R_J_K75]

Yeah, they said something like 40 pages of monsters.

That's quite a bit. I hadn't seen that.

 

[Mistwell]

Mordenkainen's Folio of Greyhawk

 

[Faolyn]

That's quite a bit. I hadn't seen that.

I found it on reddit, which said 40 pages and linked to dndbeyond, which says about 40 pages. But it also says "including classic RL monsters" which suggests that there are completely new monsters as well as returning ones.

Interestingly, the reddit version says they have a "new take on goblins," which suggests they are giving that fun face-eating ability to regular gobs and not making goblyns as a different thing.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

a lot of monsters.

Or just one very big one.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Or just one very big one.

one 40 page monster? never seen that before.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

one 40 page monster? never seen that before.

It's invisible.

 

[Mind of tempest]

It's invisible.

great, let us guess cr 35?

 

[darjr]

CR 9000