This revised and expanded Monster Manual® contains a horde of creatures for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons®. Encounter a monstrous menagerie of familiar favorites like dragons, giants, and mind flayers, plus a host of new monsters like the arch-hag, the blob of annihilation, and the vampire nightbringer. Populate your worlds and adventures with the hundreds of monsters provided, and let their stories, illustrations, and easy-to-use stat blocks fuel your D&D® adventures for years to come. Contents: The biggest D&D monster manual ever, with over 500 total and over 75 brand-new monsters to choose from. 9 terrifying new predators for higher-level play, like the arch-hag and blob of annihilation.New variations on beloved creatures like the primeval owlbear and vampire familiar. 40+ versatile humanoid stat blocks that give Dungeon Masters greater flexibility when populating their worlds with NPCs All creature stat blocks have been redesigned and rebalanced for ease of use and maximum fun. Breathtaking new artwork for almost every monster, including stunning redesigns of the chromatic and metallic dragons. Intuitive organization makes finding your favorite monster easier than ever before.

Create thrilling adventures with this revised and expanded Dungeon Master’s Guide for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons®. Inside this essential guide is everything new and experienced Dungeon Masters need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party. Contents: Intended for Dungeon Masters of all experience levels, this essential resource provides incredibly useful tools and advice for running your D&D game. Includes real-world examples of common pitfalls for Dungeon Masters, along with suggestions for how to handle them. 15 new, ready-to-use, reusable maps for homebrew adventures. Multiple handouts and resources for keeping track of campaigns. Presents Greyhawk as a customizable, ready-to-use campaign setting for Dungeon Masters. Set your adventures within Greyhawk or use it as a foundation for worlds you create. More than 300 new and improved treasures and magical items, including 18 brand new magical items. Contains rules for bastions, strongholds built and controlled by players. With crafting, base-building, and resource gathering, bastions are a fun between-session option for players. Easily find information on key D&D characters and locations with the Lore Glossary. Includes a double-sided poster map depicting Eastern Oerik from the Greyhawk setting and the city of Greyhawk.

This revised and expanded Player’s Handbook® contains rules for character creation and advancement, exploration, combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Create fantastic D&D® heroes from the wide selection of character origins, classes, and subclasses provided. Explore ancient ruins and deadly dungeons. Battle monsters while searching for legendary treasures. Gain experience and power as you trek across uncharted lands with your companions. Contents: The biggest Player’s Handbook in Dungeons & Dragons history, revised and expanded to reflect ten years of feedback from the D&D community. The perfect start to your D&D adventures, with updated learn to play and character creation sections. Expanded ways to create any character with twelve classes, 48 subclasses, and 10 species. Contains twelve class and 48 subclasses, revised and balanced to bring fun for every type of player. Customize your character’s origins with 10 species, 16 backgrounds, and 75 feats. Cover-to-cover brand new art and a refreshed look and feel make every page a joy to experience. An alphabetized Rules Glossary makes finding rules information a snap. Nearly 400 spells, including all-new additions to your arsenal. New Weapon Masteries that give players greater versatility in combat. New Tools & Crafting System that gives you new ways to utilize your tools and craft new items while adventuring.

An ideal introduction to the world of Dungeons & Dragons, offering players and Dungeon Masters a turnkey onboarding experience. This complete game experience contains everything you need to leap into adventure, including an adventure book with everything the Dungeon Master needs to get started; a rulebook for playing characters of levels 1–3; 5 ready-to-play characters, each with a character sheet; and 6 game dice. Discover the secrets of Stormwreck Isle in this quest designed for brand new players and Dungeon Masters. 48-page adventure booklet with everything you need to get started32-page rulebook for playing characters of levels 1–35 ready-to-play characters, each with a character sheet6 polyhedral game dice

Sparkling with the musings of the wizard Mordenkainen, this tome features a host of creatures for use in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Compiling and updating monsters that originally appeared in Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, these creatures represent some of the most benevolent and malevolent forces that D&D heroes might face. The book also gathers together fantastical peoples from many different worlds. Each of these peoples represents a race option when you create your D&D character, expanding on the choices in the Player’s Handbook. Contents:  Includes over 250 monsters—updates to the monsters include making spellcasters easier for Dungeon Masters to run, giving many monsters more damage and resilience, and improving the organization of the stat blocks themselves Includes over 30 playable races—brings all the game’s setting-agnostic races into one book, complementing the races in the  Player’s Handbook A multiverse of lore—includes updates to monster lore that refocus the stories on the D&D multiverse, rather than on any particular world  

A magical mixture of rules options for the world's greatest roleplaying game. The wizard Tasha, whose great works include the spell Tasha's hideous laughter, has gathered bits and bobs of precious lore during her illustrious career as an adventurer. Her enemies wouldn't want these treasured secrets scattered across the multiverse, so in defiance, she has collected and codified these tidbits for the enrichment of all. EXPANDED SUBCLASSES. Try out subclass options for every Dungeons & Dragons class, including the artificer, which appears in the book. MORE CHARACTER OPTIONS. Tasha's Cauldron of Everything introduces a host of class features and feats, plus straightforward rules for modifying a character's racial traits and customizing their origin. INTRODUCING GROUP PATRONS. Whether you're part of the same criminal syndicate or working for an ancient dragon, each group patron option comes with its own perks and types of assignments. SPELLS, ARTIFACTS & MAGIC TATTOOS. Discover more spells, as well as magic tattoos, artifacts, and other magic items for your campaign. EXPANDED RULES OPTIONS. Try out rules for sidekicks, supernatural environments, natural hazards, and parleying with monsters, and gain guidance on running a session zero. A PLETHORA OF PUZZLES. Ready to be dropped into any D&D adventure, puzzles of varied difficulty await your adventurers, complete with traps and guidance on using the puzzles in a campaign. Full of expanded content for players and Dungeon Masters alike, this book is a great addition to the Player's Handbook. Baked in you'll find more rule options for all the character classes in the Player's Handbook, including more subclass options. Thrown in for good measure is the artificer class, a master of magical invention. And this witch's brew wouldn't be complete without a dash of added artifacts, spellbook options, spells for both player characters and monsters, magical tattoos, group patrons, and other tasty goodies.

The D&D Essentials Kit is the ideal second purchase for new players that have bought the Starter Set. With the Essentials Kit, new players will learn to create characters of levels 1–6 and experience the thrill of being the Dungeon Masters. Contents: 64-page rulebook that teaches how to create characters of levels 1–6 and play the game. Includes the introduction of sidekick rules. Dragon of Icespire Peak™, a 64-page introductory adventure Double-sided poster map for use with the Dragon of Icespire Peak™ adventure (21” x 15”) Four-panel, folding Dungeon Master’s screen (33" × 8.5") 6 blank character sheets 11 polyhedral dice 81 cards describing magic items, sidekicks, and other D&D game elements, plus a folding box to hold all the cards Codes for D&D Beyond, the official digital toolset for D&D

Explore a wealth of fantastic new rules options for both players and Dungeon Masters in this supplement for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Assembled here for the first time is new information on adventurers of every stripe. In addition, you’ll find and valuable advice for those of nefarious intent who must deal with such meddling do-gooders, including the Xanathar’s personal thoughts on how to dispatch anyone foolish enough to interfere with his business dealings. Alongside observations on “heroes” themselves, the beholder fills the pages of this tome with his personal thoughts on tricks, traps, and even treasures and how they can be put to villainous use.