
If this book doesn’t give us the right challenges to put in front of our PCs at all levels of play, the entire game can quickly fall apart. For us dungeon masters there is no book more important and more heavily used than the Monster Manual. Without good monsters, the best abilities in the Player’s Handbook are meaningless.


While we’ve applied great attention to the new Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Player’s Handbook, it falls to the Monster Manual to fill in the other half of the D&D equation.
