D&D (2024) Which Creature Type Would You Most Like a Fizban's/Bigby's Style Book About?

[RoughCoronet0]

Beasts! I want to see actual fantasy animals that are like... animals instead of monstrosities for no good reason.

I’d love it if they would take inspiration from the Primal Spirits lore from 4e and adapt that to 5e to make beasts that are more supernatural and mystical. It would also be a good place to add an updated Shepards Druid and Beast Barbarian. They could also add a Primal Spirits Warlock so we can get a more nature themed arcane caster.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd LOVE a book on Mechanus lore, that's an instant buy for me. Warforged are interesting to me as well but aren't they completely unrelated? Might be an excellent book possibility to compile various Construct lore into one volume.


I just don't see much potential for lore about Beasts, but back to my initial answer I could see it fitting really well into a book more focused on Monster Hunting and Harvesting. On second thought though, if WotC had ideas for fleshing out the Beastlands plane and how that relates to beasts (and humanoids?) on the prime material plane, that actually could be near the top of my wishlist


I was on the fence about including Undead creatures / Shadowfell plane as the flipside to Fey creatures / Feywild plane, but was thinking that it seems like DnD Undead go well beyond Raven Queen / Shadowfell. They could probably make an awesome book from exploring Feywild + Shadowfell together, updating from 4e lore.

I could see a Shadowfell/Feywild book for the mirror Realms, and a Celestial/Fiend book that also co ers Modrons and Slaad as a de factor Manuel of the Planes. Elementals would be enough for a whole book, it would make sense for Beasts and Plants of they bring in Primordial stuff.

 

[sevenbastard]

Otilukes Omnibus of Ooze, just so we can type OOoO when we reference it.

 

[Parmandur]

Otilukes Omnibus of Ooze, just so we can type OOoO when we reference it.

 

[Corinnguard]

A book on Elemental beings would be interesting. Especially if it had variants of the Genasi that covered an aspect of each element. PF1 had alternate elemental variants for each of its' Genie-kin.

Sylph (Air)- Lightning and Smoke
Oread (Earth)- Gem and Metal
Ifrit (Fire)- Magma and Light
Undine (Water)- Ice and Vapor

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I’d love it if they would take inspiration from the Primal Spirits lore from 4e and adapt that to 5e to make beasts that are more supernatural and mystical. It would also be a good place to add an updated Shepards Druid and Beast Barbarian. They could also add a Primal Spirits Warlock so we can get a more nature themed arcane caster.

I honestly had included Beasts in the poll for completion's sake, but that's a pretty cool idea. Maybe the primal spirits could also have a connection to the Beastlands, too.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I honestly had included Beasts in the poll for completion's sake, but that's a pretty cool idea. Maybe the primal spirits could also have a connection to the Beastlands, too.

Yeah, I think including the Beastlands could be a great idea.

While I would like a separate book for Beasts and Plants, I wouldn’t be against a book detailing both titled “(Insert name of famous D&D Druid) guide to Primal Nature” or something like that.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Man, I wish multiple votes were allowed for this poll!

Same! I voted Fiends (mainly because Celestials would never get a book on their own, so we might get one with the two together), but Undead, Aberrations, and Fey were right up there.

 

[Tonguez]

1 Beast Ecologies, real world, mundane and fantastical.

2. Constructs and Artificers

3. Undead, Shadowfell and Death

4. Fey

5. The Rest

 

[MechaTarrasque]

Personally, I would love celestials. That being said, I think the best measure is what kind of new character options the book would provide. I think the clear winner there would be a Shadowfell book covering monstrosities, undead, and fey. I could see a College of Whispers Bard being more Shadowfell and less innately evil (I picture them as the "blues bard"). The psychic sorcery sorcerer already covers what I would want in a shadow sorcery sorcerer (being able to summon all kinds of nasty shadow tentacles), but there is still some space for a more necromancer-y sorcerer. Everyone got focused on the hexblade as bladelock, but there were some other interesting ideas in that build too. You could work the Way of the Ancients barbarian and some kind of Oath of Finding paladin who is trying to find some lost item into the 'fell as well.