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Here’s how it works. D&D has finally completed its initial wave of revamps with the 2024 Monster Manual—confusingly released in 2025, but I don't make the rules—and, after a read through ...

Now the 2025 Monster Manual is harkening back to the best thing about 4E: its monster and encounter design. 4E provided a quick breakdown of the roles character classes and monsters were meant to ...

Rather than give us 6th edition, the 2024 Player’s Handbook, DM guide, and now Monster Manual are revised versions of the existing 5th Edition rules. This leaves many DMs and their players ...

With the new Monster Manual available soon to complete the core book releases, the D&D team also wanted to make the book bigger, with greater challenges for more advanced players. I've had a copy ...

Notably, the new Monster Manual won’t be released until February 18, 2025, which means we likely won’t see a boxed set until next year. Development of the new Core Rulebooks started in 2022 ...