![]() ![]() 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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