“There are things that appear in The Wild Beyond The Witchlight, in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, and in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, all influenced by work we were doing on Monsters of the Multiverse,” he said.

All monsters are now listed alphabetically, rather than alphabetically within sectionsĪccording to Crawford, this upgraded D&D bestiary has been in the works for many months, alongside development on 2021’s sourcebooks, and as yet unreleased products planned for the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons in 2024.

Monsters have been “rebalanced” across the board to make various monsters tougher, to match their official challenge rating.DMs will no longer need to track Spell Slots for NPCs/Monsters.Many NPC/Monster spellcasters now have a slimmed down ‘Spellcasting Action’ instead of each having their own spell tree.NPC/Monster stat blocks have been reorganised to be more easily readable.NPC/Monster listings now have more, and nicer artworks.On-stream, Crawford also revealed a few of the key “quality of life” improvements that had been made in the new book, including: In Sunday’s livestream – which also dropped tons of teasers about the next few years’ worth of upcoming D&D products – Wizards’ Principal rules designer for D&D, Jeremy Crawford, called the new volume “a treasure trove of creature related material that has appeared previously in other products for Fifth Edition, but are now all being brought together in one book, and updated”. Wizards confirms Monsters of the Multiverse will be available as a standalone volume in 2022 – but there’s no specific release date or pricing yet. That means new playable races have appeared with unique racial traits, some that are only shared by a few and others.

The book, which comes out on January 25, 2022, will contain over 30 “setting-agnostic” playable D&D races, and over 250 monsters, along with various improvements and new artworks.Īnnounced in a D&D Celebration livestream on Sunday, the book will first be released as part of a ‘Rules Expansion Gift Set’ bundle, together with previous sourcebooks Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. The set’s priced at $169.95, and you can pre-order it now via Amazon (although, at print time, it’s still labelled with the placeholder ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2022 title’. Updated February 2nd, 2021 by Kristy Ambrose: Players and DMs alike continue to enjoy the options provided by D&D, not only in the basic rules and manuals but also in the various supplements and third-party materials available. Dungeons and Dragons 5E publisher Wizards of the Coast is releasing a new, much expanded version the game’s Monster Manual bestiary, entitled Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse.

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