![]() A huge, huge fan of the huge shoulders and the frayed-cloth look it has, as well as the hollow-hood head and the lack of legs. One of the monsters that showed up very memorably in the 3E/3.5E Monster Manual is the Allip - a creature I remember very fondly because, well, 3.5E's Monster Manual was the very first D&D Sourcebook I read and what with the Allip showing up very early on in the book, it's basically a pretty badass undead spooky ghost-creature that I ended up really liking. Click here for the next part of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, covering Eladrin to Nightwalkers.Click here for the final part of Volo's Guide to Monsters, covering Nilbog to Yuan-ti. ![]() Note that these will be a bit shorter - this was written when I'm having a bit of a writer's block as I write this batch of Reviewing D&D Monsters, and I feel that these work better as a slightly larger batch of shorter articles. As usual, since I'm doing the reviews by monster block, I'll include the new enemy variants after a break just for completion's sake. I really don't feel like I have much to add about them without basically transcripting huge chunks of Mordenkainen's. (This focus, I feel, is going to be extra-prominent when we ever get to the actual adventure modules).Īlso, I'm basically skipping over some of the races we've covered before - the drow, the gith, the ogres, the duergar. I did actually read through almost the entirety of the book, but as usual, the focus of this series of reviews is going to be the monster entries. I've personally never really cared for any of these if I'm being honest, but it's always nice to know and have a little well of established lore to draw on to slap on NPC's or characters. A significant portion of it focuses on detailing the Blood War between demons and devils, of the 'balance' between the various realms, of the backstory of the elven gods and the history of the dwarves, and it's a pretty fascinating read even if my D&D gaming groups tend to just go for less cosmic-related themes. While Volo is more concerned about detailing the culture and tribal focus of a lot of the more monstrous humanoids like goblinoids, orcs, kobolds and yuan-ti, Mordenkainen's focuses more on larger, more specific lore of the Forgotten Realms setting. Instead of just going in alphabetical order as how the book itself presents the monsters, I've decided to take the massive chunk of demons, devils, demon lords, archdevils and yugoloths cover them separately. ![]() In making this review, though, I've done a bit of rearranging the order of how I cover the monsters. extra-planar leaning compared to the ' really weird magical beasts' feel of Volo's Guide to Monsters. ![]() Where Volo was more of an intrepid explorer, Mordenkainen is one of the oldest and most powerful mages in D&D lore, hailing from the Greyhawk setting, and is also a dude that canonically moves from plane to plane, which is probably why a lot of the monsters here have a bit of a more. I do plan to eventually cover the adventure modules, but we'll go through this one first because it's a book I actually own. This one is sort of a collection of a lot of the monsters published in 5E's other material, particularly the adventure modules, and also accumulates a lot of the named demon lords and archdevils, giving them stats and whatnot. This time around we're covering the third quasi-bestiary sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.
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