D&D Volo's Guide to Monsters is now available!

[SpiritofFire]

$50 is pretty steep. I was hoping it'd be $35.

How does it handle the new fluff text for monsters that were previously covered in the monster manual?

To get the complete text, do I have to look up the entry twice (once for MM text and once for VOLO text) ?

[Zacchaeus]

$50 is pretty steep. I was hoping it'd be $35.

How does it handle the new fluff text for monsters that were previously covered in the monster manual?

To get the complete text, do I have to look up the entry twice (once for MM text and once for VOLO text) ?

The new monsters have their own 'fluff' text once in the body of the reference and also included in the monsters 'Other' tab. Any monsters referenced from the MM are linked to Volo. Most of the monsters in Volo which are variants of those in the MM have their own entry in the Volo NPC list or there is a template from which you can copy/paste the variant abilities into an existing NPC.

[Zerbious]

Yep, I was at a CU v UCLA football game and bought on the drive home! However, I was late to the party. I think it was about 12:05/12:10...

I will be much later to the party... seeing that I just upgraded to Ultimate, bought the on-sale SCAG and the SKT module and I DO still enjoy being married to my wife of 18 years, my copy has to wait a bit. :P

[Gwydion]

I will be much later to the party... seeing that I just upgraded to Ultimate, bought the on-sale SCAG and the SKT module and I DO still enjoy being married to my wife of 18 years, my copy has to wait a bit. :P

Well.... Christmas is just around the corner. Just saying..

[ddavison]

If you are a Steam user, please consider tagging the product for us (or any of our products actually) and writing a review to let us know what you think.

Here is Volo's Guide
https://store.steampowered.com/app/549380/

[drakonin]

I picked it up last night and eyeballed it for a good two hours, I really wish the random table stuff worked with more than just Volo's guide but it is really fun to use and I look forward to using it in my custom games.

[spite]

I picked it up last night and eyeballed it for a good two hours, I really wish the random table stuff worked with more than just Volo's guide but it is really fun to use and I look forward to using it in my custom games.

I believe the DMG was re-done to include these new templates

[Zacchaeus]

I picked it up last night and eyeballed it for a good two hours, I really wish the random table stuff worked with more than just Volo's guide but it is really fun to use and I look forward to using it in my custom games.

I'll have a look at SKT and the Book of Lairs in the next few days and update those with random tables and anything else that might enhance them - if that's any good to you

[7H3LaughingMan]

Is there any reason why the new races are in both the "DD Volos Guide to Monsters" Module and the "DD Volos Guide to Monsters Players" Module? If I have both of the modules loaded it shows two of each new race.

[Zacchaeus]

Well, if there wasn't a player's guide the players wouldn't be able to use the races and other player related information easily (the DM would need to do it) and the information is in the main module because it's part of the main module. You can use the filter to only show one or the other in the races window if you want to avoid confusion.