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The 2025 Monster Manual arrives today, but there's no need to pay full price for the upgraded D&D rulebook. While most retailers are selling the weighty tome at the usual $49.99 (or thereabouts ...

The 2025 Monster Manual is here at last. And with it, the next few years of D&D kick off. Here are our first impressions. The months-long march into a new editionof D&D comes to a close with the ...

The new Monster Manual is D&D’s biggest to date, with more than 500 creatures. Beyond revising the rules creatures printed in 2014, the book also gives lots of them more friends. Take the ...