Monster Manual by Mike Mearls

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I read this alongside the player's handbook to get a sense of how to play D&D. The monster manual is a good guide, and I liked the illustrations, which gave a fuller sense of what the monsters were like. There is enough content to populate many campaigns.

I didn't get much of a sense about how the D&D world is thematically coherent. This is a place in which fantastical creatures exist alongside dinosaurs, intelligent but evil races, and also animals such as bears and wolves. It often seems like a lot of creatures thrown together with little thought to the wider world building, but perhaps that could reflect the extensive nature of the D&D world.



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