I'm always game for more monsters. I love just picking books and flipping through for things I've never used or haven't used in years.Nah, I have Volo's and Mordenkainen's. This product is not for me.
There is just 1 new Monster, though the new style is probably interesting for experimenting.I'm always game for more monsters. I love just picking books and flipping through for things I've never used or haven't used in years.
I mean, the book in the gift set is a MM2, very specifically.I voted no, as I already own the books they originally appeared, but hope WOTC doesnt take any potential sales slump to mean people aren't interested in a NEW monster book or one focused on just monsters. I'd much prefer a MM 2 over the mixed content books we've seen.
1. Already have Volo's and Mord's, so the gift set is a waste.
I suppose I left out the possibility of owning one and not wanting the other...Yep, or even worse.
Have Xanathars, Volos, and MtoF AND actively dont want Tasha's.
So the Gift Set would be extremely wasteful, and I dont like the changes at all anyway.
From what we've seen so far on the preview taken from twitter by @darjr , the changes are pretty minimal. Even with all that talk about the races and their niche and archetypes and yadayada, the changes to playable races are pretty basic: add fey ancestry to gobs, trance works different, everybody gets darkvision for the sake of it, etcAbsolutely no chance with the Gift set.
Digital would be next but with Beyond we don't even know what it'll contain so that's out for now.
And honestly I don't have any reviews of how good the changes to the monsters are. I expect I might pick it up eventually, but not May.
The monster changes are pretty notable.From what we've seen so far on the preview taken from twitter by @darjr , the changes are pretty minimal. Even with all that talk about the races and their niche and archetypes and yadayada, the changes to playable races are pretty basic: add fey ancestry to gobs, trance works different, everybody gets darkvision for the sake of it, etc
I'll wait for the 2024 release myself.
I mean, looking at the drow matron and Orcus, it seems more like small quality of life improvements rather than a major rewrite.The monster changes are pretty notable.