D&D General What's The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons?

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A full-on rules-free lore book coming in August

It wasn't in any previous announcements about 2023-2024's D&D release schedule, but now The Practically Complete Guide to Dragons has appeared on the slate!

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It's a 128-page hardcover, coming out on August 15th for $39.95, and it details dragon anatomy, society, language, hoards, magic, lairs, and more. This is a full-on 'lore' book, with no game rules in it.

The Practical Guide to Dragons came out in 2006, and was followed by A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding and A Practical Guide to Dragon Magic. This book is a compilation of the best parts of those three books. The originals were illustrated guides designed for younger readers, and featured a wizard called Sindri Suncatcher, the fictional 'author' of the works.

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Aug 25, 2023

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
DDB is 100% dynamically generated web pages, so far as I know. I think they may have offered their first free monster collection as a PDF, too, but it's not a regular thing.

Yup, the Spelljammer MC was released as a PDF. The Minecraft monster collection was also released as a PDF, but not by Wizards (it was through the Minecraft web site).