NPC/Monster stat blocks have been reorganised to be more easily readable.

NPC/Monster listings now have more, and nicer artworks.

On-stream, Crawford also revealed a few of the key “quality of life” improvements that had been made in the new book, including: In Sunday’s livestream – which also dropped tons of teasers about the next few years’ worth of upcoming D&D products – Wizards’ Principal rules designer for D&D, Jeremy Crawford, called the new volume “a treasure trove of creature related material that has appeared previously in other products for Fifth Edition, but are now all being brought together in one book, and updated”. Wizards confirms Monsters of the Multiverse will be available as a standalone volume in 2022 – but there’s no specific release date or pricing yet. The book, which comes out on January 25, 2022, will contain over 30 “setting-agnostic” playable D&D races, and over 250 monsters, along with various improvements and new artworks.Īnnounced in a D&D Celebration livestream on Sunday, the book will first be released as part of a ‘Rules Expansion Gift Set’ bundle, together with previous sourcebooks Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. The set’s priced at $169.95, and you can pre-order it now via Amazon (although, at print time, it’s still labelled with the placeholder ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2022 title’.

Dungeons and Dragons 5E publisher Wizards of the Coast is releasing a new, much expanded version the game’s Monster Manual bestiary, entitled Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse.

List of 5e playable races