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'If you look at science fiction follows, I think an arc that fantasy is following now. 'I like to say that we're living in a post Game of Thrones world. 'I have this pet phrase I use,' Mearls said. The goal, in the end, is to inspire new stories at the table, not simply reinforce the lore of the Forgotten Realms and ram storylines down playerвЂ™s throats. Put simply, the goal is to create a book that high-level players and dungeon masters will enjoy reading. Wizards of the Coast wants their sourcebooks to be fun to read. Their differing accounts will be scattered throughout the book, and take the shape of comments scribbled in the margin. And the two will often be at odds with one another. The other will be Elminster, the wise Sage of Shadowdale. One will be Volothamp Geddarm, an over-the-top, braggadocious explorer. VoloвЂ™s Guide will have a narrator - two actually. So the idea was, the kind of genesis of it, was that want to do something that's more story oriented.'

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But I just think that if thatвЂ™s all the Monster Manual is, then we're selling ourselves short.

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'In the end, it's still a giant book full of monsters. Their next take on the Monster Manual will be called VoloвЂ™s Guide to Monsters and, for the first time, it will have a lot more character to it. This time around, he and his team have decided to do something a little bit different. I think that if people have seen it, then it's not really new and it's not really exciting.' 'I don't want to duplicate any product that's come before. 'I have this kind of personal philosophy for managing the product line,' Mearls said last month in Renton, Washington. But, through the decades, itвЂ™s always been roughly the same thing: An alphabetical list of monsters. Since then there have been 18 iterations, some for different editions of the game with different rulesets, others with slightly different snippets of lore. The first, titled simply Monster Manual, was published in 1977. How do you keep the source material fresh for a 42-year old franchise? And, when youвЂ™re in the business of selling books, how do you make the next one more interesting than the last?Д¬onsider a pillar of the franchise, the sourcebook known as the Monster Manual. More people than ever before are discovering the magic of rolling dice and telling stories with their friends, and lapsed fans are returning in droves.ДЇor lead designer Mike Mearls, thatвЂ™s created a bit of a problem. And, to hear publisher Wizards of the Coast tell it, the sourcebooks are selling like hot cakes. The venerable Dungeons & Dragons franchise, the granddaddy of the modern role-playing game, is now in its 5th edition. Dungeon & Dragons Monster Manual - Beholder Death.What better place to begin than with a monster I have gone full circle with? Here is my Ankheg for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. You could say the Ankheg and I have some history. I illustrated it for the Monster Manual 2 for 4th Edition, redesigned it for myself, redesigned it for 5th Edition, and finally have illustrated it for the new Monster Manual. With all that in mind, I decided to start with the Ankheg.

You don't have to look too hard on the blog to see that I have spent a lot of time redesigning the monsters of D&D for myself. This was also the most personal work that I produced for a client last year. To be honest, I just didn't know where to start! I designed 18 monsters for this new edition of D&D and illustrated 5 monsters that appeared in the Monster Manual (4 of my own design and 1 that I did not design).

One would think that since I am all about the monsters that I would have already started posting my work done on the monsters of 5th Edition D&D.

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