Essential for a DM whose players have seen it all or slain it all. Some of my favorite creatures:

• New Dragons, including/especially the Light Dragon and the various drakes (Fey & Bathhouse drakes are awesome)
• Lots of new golems, including the Altar Flame golem for temples, the Keg Golem for dwarves and other alcohol enthusiasts, and lesser golems for lower level characters (GREAT to have)
• New fey, including archfey, which I feel is one of the biggest holes in the core Monster Manual
• New Demon Lords and Archdevils that are evocative and interesting, regardless of your campaign setting
• Angels, another area drastically unserved by the Monster Manual
• Interesting statblocks for kobolds, derro and goblins

Like the Tome of Beasts, not every monster in this book will strike your fancy or fit well into your campaign--but I guarantee that many of them will, and your players will talk about them for years to come.

Many of the monsters in this book may not fit your campaign setting--but some of them will. And those monsters will terrify and mystify your players. You will have fun running them, describing them. Tome of Beasts fills a lot of important gaps in the Monster Manual, with lots of interesting new dragons, fiends and fiendish lords, TONS of badly needed fey, interesting kobolds, a kingdom of ghouls, and a whole lot of weird stuff that will delight and inspire. The art is evocative and the monster design is inspired. Get this book.

This is a really great resource. Rather than a how-to manual, just a collection of essays by authors with very different perspectives. There are many points I can take from here in my gaming (I GM a fantasy game in a custom setting) and the nature of the works means each time I read an essay again I get some new insight.

This guide has changed for the best how I design my adventures for D&D.

The void beckons you and welcomes you into its swirling embrace. Feel yourself fall ever further into the nothingness of nonexistence, and know that only by doing so can you truly become.

Does what it says on the tin.

This is the setting for your wilderness party. Rangers, Druids and other wilderness focused PCs have a chance to shine. A colorful environment that looms large and becomes, not only a feature but, a character unto itself. A must for Midgard fans.

The write up for this book is deceiving. There is no Clockwork Domain in this book. There are cleric clockwork spells, but the write up for the domain is in the Midgard Campaign Setting. Also, there is no Gypsy magic. I have no idea where that is, I haven't been able to find it so far in any of the other Midgard books that I have. And last but not least, there are NO Feats in this book.

Besides the glaring omissions, this is a good book. It's mostly fluff with a great write up of the city's past and each district. There are SOME player options which include spells, magic items, and the lust domain. However, most, if not all of the spells appear in Deep Magic. If you want more player options, then pick up the Players Guide to the Crossroads.

Get this book if:

• You love reading lore
• If you’re looking to get into Midgard and Zobeck, but don't want to get Deep Magic
• You want the lust domain
• If you like potentially game breaking magic items. (looking at you Scoundrels Gambit)

Otherwise skip this one and get the Players Guide to the Crossroads, Deep Magic and the Midgard Campaign Setting.

Absolutely fantastic product, adding a swath of creatures that will sensibly fit in many settings, and will keep adventurers on their toes with unfamiliar foes. My favorites were the creatures of the fey.

We need more 5E supplements like this. Let's face it: D&D 5E is great, but it's a bit on the shallow side. It doesn't take long before all the classes become familiar, the backgrounds all look like old news, and you glaze over the list of feats looking for something original. Enter the Midgard Heroes Handbook. Wow, this is basically your Player's Handbook 2, with an insane selection of new races, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, new spellcasting rules and hundreds more spells & magic items.

The book of course shines if you play in Midgard, which is fast becoming my favorite fantasy campaign setting. This book is also one of the main reasons why I love Midgard. The Midgard Worldbook does a great job of describing an amazingly unique world based on the greatest pantheon ever (Norse mythology), but it's the Midgard Heroes Handbook that turns this unique feeling into unique gameplay. As a player, you'll find here cool options you can use in other campaign worlds, like a Circle of Stones druid, or the Seer background, and countless more. The new races and many backgrounds are of course tied to Midgard, so it would be DM's option to allow them in your other games. As a big druid fan I was hoping for more druid circles than just the one here, especially when there's 2 new sorcerous bloodlines, 3 new warlock pacts, 11 new wizard traditions and 17 new cleric domains! The martial and rogue characters get new subclasses too.

If you're not familiar with Kobold Press, you can basically expect quality content, writing and layout that rivals (and sometimes surpasses) material from Wizards of the Coast. As a DM, all Kobold Press content is automatically considered official, no question.

All in all, you can't go wrong with this book. I'm a HUGE Kobold Press fan, and this book will turn you into one too.

This book blew me away. The amount of work and detail that went into this book is monumental.

I started my game journey in 1979 playing d&d. I was hooked ever since. I have played most of the rpg out there in the past and can appreciate ones where there is so much attention to detail. Having worked in the games industry as a Canadian distributer I habe seen countless products. i have worked with many companies ans know what it takes to make a book like this.

Kobold Press is doing one of the best jobs I have seen!

This worldbook is a must have. The gm has access to so much detail to flesh out a very unique game world. The mashuP of Norse - Egyptian - scandanavian etc etc has something for everyone. There is no shortage of content to run in any directions your players take you!

I really like the races and cultures. It brings a new dimension to a gaming experience.

I am a former archaeologist and also studied mythologies. love love love what this book invokes. Our games are played out in our imagination. We need books like this to help paint the great stories we want to play out in the theatre of our imagination.

There are very few resources in one book that can cover such detail as this!

This is the perfect companion for the players books to flesh out more detail in your game.

I highly reocmmend running this campaign world for Pathfinder or Dungeons & Dragons.

A solid purchase containing alot of interesting ideas that will be able to faciliate play for a long time. The nation states within the book are very interesting and capable of being moulded into a short or long campaign depending.

Its also a book that suppports "lonely fun" when you don't have a gaming group on hand to play.

Clear, systematic advice. Lots of great examples of use in gamplay... the experience of the authors shows through throughout.

Tome of Beasts is an incredible supplement for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. This book is one of the biggest collections of monsters and villains for 5th edition D&D. Though it was published by a 3rd-party publisher, Kobold Press, this book has come to be something of an unofficial standard Dungeons and Dragons rulebook. If you are a dungeon master who uses adventures published by 3rd party publishers (and you should), there is a good chance that you'll see some of the monsters in this book republished in some form.

As for the content of the book, it's simply a massive list of enemies to pit your players against when you're running a D&D game. This includes monsters of all levels, and some individual NPC characters that serve as great villains. At over 400 pages, this book has something for nearly any situation and every level of the play. If you're looking for an interesting, low-powered construct, undead, or ooze to throw at a first-level party, then you'll find it here. When your party is higher in level and you need to put them up against a creature they've never fought before, you will be able to find something here. There is plenty to challeng mid-level parties, including new versions of classic monsters. For example, there are 30 pages of material dedicated to new types of dragons, including things like mithral, void, and cave dragons. By the time your party reaches higher levels and travels to other planes of existence, you can pit them against the new types of devils and demons that appear in this book. But not only are there new fiends, there are new arch-devils and demon princes that make for great high-level villains for your campaign. Looking for something else to do with your players at high levels? You can have them tangle with one of this book's seven Fey lords and ladies, the powerful fey creatures that range in challenge rating from 12-21. There is even a handful of Lovecraftian monsters, such as deep ones and migo.

Kobold Press is known for their fantasy setting, Midgard. A well-established setting that is playable in D&D and Pathfinder, with a ton of supplements backing it. It should be noted that Tome of Beasts is something of a Midgard supplement--but stands entirely on its own. If you run a Midgard game, you'll be happy to see that some creatures presented in this book come with a little blurb about their place in Midgard. This is extra information that is entirely separate from the stats and background information given about the creature. It's simply something extra for those running a Midgard campaign to add some flavor. This book can really be applied to any D&D setting, especially given the variety of creatures it presents.

Given the wealth of information in Tome of Beasts, this book is a fantastic resource for any dungeon master. It's bigger and has more material than any of the official individual monster supplements for D&D, and it offers a great variety of monsters and non-player characters that can provide you with years worth of material for your game. Given that Tome of Beasts has become a somewhat standard part of the D&D library, with it providing material for several 3rd party modules, buying this book is no-brainer for any DM.

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An enjoyable romp. One of my first true one shots, I didn't really spend any time planning this so ran it straight from the book after a skim read before hand. The players enjoyed it, but I/we found the flow a little too well signposted, there were definately no mysteries to be deduced/roleplayed. Not going to consider that a flaw though, it was a one shot and my players wanted to kill things so it ticked all the boxes in that regard.

My only criticism would be some mistakes with the dusk queen stat block. It lists the spells in divine and cleric seperately, so effectively only showing spell slots up to level 7 for each, when it should be showing higher level slots as a combined level 14 character. Not a major problem but it did mean from initial read I was limited on my 4th level slots. There's also a mismatch between what spell scrolls it says she casts and which she's listed as having, not a major problem but confused me a little when reading it in the heat of battle!

TLDR: Good hack n slash, little roleplay, few mistakes but not gonna spoil anything.

I made a video review of this book! I picked the top five weirdest, coolest and funniest creatures out of the many hundreds.

Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zf7ffd-Aqc&t=2s