N o orcs appear in Dungeons & Dragons' new Monster Manual, but there are actually more orc options than ever before in the core rulebook.As part of the new revised ruleset for D&D's Fifth Edition ...

Dungeons & Dragons recently made some changes to Orcs in the 2024 Player’s Handbook, which will likely present a somewhat unique issue for the upcoming 2024 Monster Manual.Despite its title, the ...

In the new 2025 Monster Manual, Orcs and Drow have been removed altogether with their stat blocks replaced by a range of more generic NPC templates. The decision has left some in the community ...

Following are 6 ideas drawn directly from the Monster Manual, ... (Orcs pg. 245) “King Obould of the Many-Arrows tribe is a legend among the orc war chiefs of the Forgotten Realms, ...

The new Monster Manual is D&D’s biggest to date, with more than 500 creatures. ... To be precise, the D&D community wrestles over lack of Orc and Drow stat blocks.

But we also love the creatures presented in the Monster Manual. It doesn’t take much to imagine many of the MM creatures as PCs; it’s one of the ways we got the half-orc race, after all.

When the Monster Manual releases on February 18th, it will complete the core set of new rules. That means many tables who’ve yet to switch will be revisiting the conversation.

The Monster Manual also offers Day 1 integration with D&D Beyond - which, by the way, has seen 3.6 million characters created using the 2024 core ruleset - and if you have Master or Hero Teir, you ...