New 2024 Monster Manual | First Look | D&D

so this is the largest monster manual the game has ever had over 500 monsters in it and that includes not only many of the classic foes that people expect to face in DND D but also many creatures that could serve as allies we have rebuilt every monster that was in the 2014 Monster manual striving to make it as fun as it can can be make sure it's as scary as it should be for its challenge rating but then we've also added a bunch of new monsters there are over 75 new monsters in this book and uh many of the new monsters fill in families of monsters that already existed great example uh the game already of course had vampires in it and multiple types well there are even more types now you know that would please you to yes and and the additional vampire types are there because when we have looked at each of the major families of monsters we've wanted to make sure that there were opportunities for groups to encounter that family of Monster uh without getting murdered right away well maybe sooner than they could before but also in some cases we also wanted there to be higher CR versions of some of these families of monsters so there's a new low CR vampire which is a vampire that is still partly mortal in the process of becoming a full vampire but then on the other end we have uh a new vampire that is more powerful than the sort of Apex vampire that we had in the 2014 Monster manual we've also fleshed out many of the families of NPCs that existed in 2014 uh we wanted to make that those NPC groups remained relevant for more of a campaign particularly because we know that DMS used the heck out of those MPC stap blocks that were in 2014 and so in addition to expanding out some of those MPC groups whether it's Bandits or priests or Mages uh We've also created new groups so there now are there's now a group of performers there's now a group of pirates and so on uh because we want to make this book The indispensable tool for DMS as they're preparing adventures and campaigns to go to this book for inspiration uh to you know be inspired by the art by the stat blocks by the story text as they're creating their Adventures uh but then also to have a whole bunch of stat blocks that are super easy to use at the table uh when initiative is rolled and the DM can uh unleash a whole bunch bunch of surprises because there's been a little bit of extra added to them and the art is also stun I've seen some of the RS that's been coming in and that is stunning as well almost all the art in the book is new that's perfect yes it's it's glorious yes uh one of the key things that we paid attention to was making sure that if it's a pre-existing monster its challenge rating stayed the same uh and that was a necessity for us because we want to make sure that uh the monsters are all compatible with our previous fifth edition Adventures um but uh we knew based on extensive play testing and 10 years of experience that not all the monsters were hitting their CR exactly right so that gave us room to make some fun adjustments yeah and so there will be a many monsters particularly at the higher CRS that are going to be far more terrifying uh than they were before uh we also in the monster manual have created Apex versions of certain creature types that didn't have an apex version before some of our creature types dragons and Giants uh being Prime examples uh along with our fiends have long had really high CR iconic examples of those creature types uh we also of course have the teras as as the you know Apex monstrosity but we have some other creature types that that we're missing uh a monster at that high level of difficulty and so we have filled those gaps in the new monster manual uh so that now means we have in the construct category we have a Colossus that can just trample cities uh in the in the oze category we have the blob of annihilation yes that can dissolve entire towns worth of people into it I mean an A total horror uh we now have an arch hag in the Fay category uh that can strike uh true Terror into highlevel groups cackling while doing it uh even the elemental category it's interesting Elementals uh that's one of the most classic monster categories but it too was actually missing uh a a monster at the sort of teras tier and it now has one in the form of the elemental Juggernaut the new players handbook is available for pre-order right now on D and D Beyond you can find that link in the video description and you can also find the new core Rule books bundle for pre-order both physical and digital thank you so much for watching we have a ton of video content coming out about the new players handbook and all the new core rule books the new monster manual the new dungeon Masters Guide so be sure to check out all of that content and thank you for watching

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Length: 6min 5sec (365 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2024