D&D 5E (2024) Which Creature Type Would You Most Like a Fizban's/Bigby's Style Book About?

[mamba]

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

that would work, just do not give me more donkey, giraffe, etc. animals, be creative

 

[Voadam]

I have some Mayfair Games 1e, various 3e OGL books, and the pathfinder books on angels and celestials but I found straight D&D treatments of them fairly lacking for the most part. 3.5 Book of Exalted Deeds has some top tier arch ones with stats continuing from some references in Manual of the Planes but the lore and descriptions are really lacking. I would be interested in a deep lore dive even though I could see it being executed poorly by WotC again the way I did not care for a bunch of lore presented in M’s Tome of Foes.

 

[Deset Gled]

Oozes would not only be cool, but it has a lot more room for making truly new material. Not just updates or adaptations.

That being said, I think combining oozes with plants, golems, giant protozoa, hyperintelligent shades of blue, whatever, would work just as well. The Guide to Nontradtional Lifeforms.

 

[MNblockhead]

I would be interested in books for a number of the categories in the poll, but I selected Undead, because that would be most immediately, and most commonly useful for my games. Give me a Book of the Undead with everything from lowly zombies to god-like liches. Give some lore and optional rules on necromancy. I would be a good place to print some horde mechanics and tips and mechanics for running zombie apocolypse (or undead overrunning a village) scenarios.

I think it would sell well.

 

[Gorck]

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

Oops, I forgot to mention I voted Fey. For many reasons: my Irish heritage, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Faerie Feller's Master-Stroke (both the Queen song and the Richard Dadd painting that inspired it), The Dresden Files. . .

 

[Stormonu]

Give me one on Lycanthropes. Beyond that, maybe Undead.

 

[Tonguez]

that would work, just do not give me more donkey, giraffe, etc. animals, be creative

How is making a donkey a formidable threat to a high level party of four not being creative?

 

[Omak Darkleaf]

Fiends are the primary antagonists in my campaign—demons in particular. As has been pointed out, fiends have been dealt with extensively in the past, and they've been done well. I have the 4e Demonomicon and both of the 3.5 Fiendish Codexes, both purchased from DriveThruRPG (which means I only have a physical copy of the former, which is sad). All three are terrific pieces of fluff, but I didn't play either of those editions. I played AD&D for two decades and then took two decades off before coming back for 5e. I can infer a bit about 3.5 and 4e rules from splatbooks, but without the core books, a knowledge of the rules, and experience playing with those rules, the texts are ultimately foreign to me. I might as well be looking at Pathfinder books. I want a tome on fiends that uses rules I'm familiar with—a book for the game that I play.

That said, I'd like to see a fiendish tome with three sections. In addition to demons and devils, the abyss and the hells, Wizards should take a stab (and hit the mark) at an exhaustive section on Hades and its daemons. The Gray Waste is wide open canvas on which to paint yugaloth culture and introduce some new NPCs who could stir up the Blood War. They even could present it as a collection of fiendish dossiers assembled by Shemeshka.

And crafting a huge chunk of new lore might keep them from retconning perfectly good extant lore. I'm still not over Graz'zt being a devil. As if.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Celestials.

We've gotten all sorts of morally-dubious enemies in these books. It'd be cool to get something centered on the heavens, and how to make those things useful and interesting. After all, Good Is Not Nice, and Light Is Not Good. You can have angels that commit horrendous acts, and you can have fallen angels (like Zariel). There's a lot that can be done with celestials, both as complex antagonists who are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons or the wrong thing for the right reasons, and as allies that can inspire greatness, provide boons, or make requests/send PCs out on quests.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

And crafting a huge chunk of new lore might keep them from retconning perfectly good extant lore. I'm still not over Graz'zt being a devil. As if.

If Zariel can be a duke of hell, despite having started existence as an angel, cannot Graz'zt be a demon prince, despite having started existence as a devil?

There's much to be said for being able to "corrupt" (and, conversely, "purify") even some of the most powerful beings.