"The Dungeon master's guide features the 4th edition game rules and guidelines for creating and running encounters, adventures, and campaigns. It offers a wealth of advice to new and experienced dungeon masters, and includes essential game rules for awarding experience, distributing treasure, creating nonplayer characters, and adding mighty artifacts to the game"--Cover p. [4].

"The return of Tiamat. The forces of Tiamat, Queen of Evil Dragons, bring war to the Forgotten Realm. Led by the sinister Cult of the Dragon, an army of dragons and foul villains wage a merciless campaign to unleash their draconic god upon the world. Opposing them is a desperate alliance including the heroic Harpers and treacherous Zhentarim. This fragile coalition needs heroes to unite them and find ways to resist the draconic threat. Do you have...

"Excite your imagination with the D&D Dungeon Master's Guide (2024), revised and expanded for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons! We've created this essential resource with wonderful world-building resources and real-world advice for your D&D sessions, such as how to accommodate missing players or address metagaming. Engage your players with fresh mechanics, including a revised magic item crafting system and rules for base building with bastions. Get...

"This illustrated guide transports new players to the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons and presents a one-of-a-kind course on the unusual creatures, from the minuscule to the massive, that fill the fantastic world of the game. This guide features easy-to-follow and entertaining explanations of where to find each beast, their strange abilities and magical powers, and how to defeat them, along with amazing illustrations that will ignite your imagination....

"Who will save existence? The evil lich-god Vecna has unearthed secrets he can use to unravel and remake the multiverse. Stopping Vecna will require working with three of the multiverse's most famous archmages, traveling to far-flung locales, and building the legendary Rod of Seven Parts. Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a high-stakes Dungeons & Dragons adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance. The heroes begin in the Forgotten Realms...

"For use with the fifth edition Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide, this book provides the setting, story, and character options needed to participate in a D&D game anywhere along the Sword Coast of Faerun" -- Back cover.

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk is a high-fantasy adventure that begins in the beloved town of Phandalin as it faces unimaginable danger. Whether the heroes are newcomers to Phandalin or are returning after the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver, they discover hints of a threat lurking below the town. The heroes soon learn that the cult of a malevolent entity has set its sights on transforming Phandalin into...

The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan, casts a foul spell meant to ignite a magical energy that suffuses the Underdark and tears open portals to the demonic Abyss. What steps through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades...