Dungeons & Dragons' 2025 Monster Manual is out now in early access, and it's already made good on one of the best changes introduced in 2024. The Monster Manual has always served the same purpose ...

A Dungeons and Dragons artist creates a fan-made World of Warcraft-themed Monster Manual featuring some iconic characters and ...

Rather than give us 6th edition, the 2024 Player’s Handbook, DM guide, and now Monster Manual are revised versions of the existing 5th Edition rules. This leaves many DMs and their players ...

The 2024 Monster Manual, which'll arrive February 18, 2025 (yes, it is a little confusing) brings 85 new monsters to the table when compared to its 2014 counterpart. What's more, the whole ...

Why Trust Us? As a tenth-level tiefling wizard, I am perhaps more excited than most about the new 2024 edition of the Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual. The monsters have never been scarier ...

Here’s how it works. D&D has finally completed its initial wave of revamps with the 2024 Monster Manual—confusingly released in 2025, but I don't make the rules—and, after a read through ...

Now the 2025 Monster Manual is harkening back to the best thing about 4E: its monster and encounter design. 4E provided a quick breakdown of the roles character classes and monsters were meant to ...

While these massive monsters may sound completely new, eagle-eyed readers of the 2014 Monster Manual will recognize that a few entries, such as the Tarrasque and Kraken, had a "(titan)" tag already.

While the Monster Manual no doubt contains plenty of additional surprises, the sneak peek really highlights some new creatures and mechanics in the monstrosities category. One of the major reveals ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. Several elements ...

Tired of the same old goblin fights at 1st level? The 5.5E Monster Manual is full of new low level monsters, all under CR 1.

That experiment was on my mind during a private press event hosted by Wizards of the Coast last week, where it discussed its new Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. This book of monsters is bigger ...