If youre a player, the Monster Manuals of old were a bit boring.

The Tarrasque is still here, and still the highest CR in the book.

The book also finally brings a change we first saw inMordenkainens Monsters of the Multiverseto the Core books.

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), it simply organises by name instead.

For starters, the illustrations have been completely reworked.

They also tease where stories could go next.

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It paints D&D as the multiverse it is, rather than a rote list of stat blocks.

Its integrated into the entries themselves, rather than an afterthought whacked on to the illustration.

For players, this feels like the first book outside the Players Handbook actually worth owning.

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