Tome of Foes is much less a presentation of monsters in a vacuum, and it makes a difference. Looking at the stat blocks, they are all just ogres but with a few special abilties.Īs you can see from the fluff, each of these monsters is trained to fill a specific kind of role–and sure this might be a little on the nose–but in general when reading through the monster entries, I had an easier time figuring out how these monsters might be used. There are four new ogre types, the Ogre Battering Ram, Bolt Launcher, Chain Brute, and Howdah. The ones presented in Tome of Foes are each geared for a specific purpose. In Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, we get to see a few new twists on an old favorite. Let’s take a look at our friends the Ogres. So let’s take a look at how Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes can help seed an adventure. You can see some of this at work in the Duergar and Starspawn monsters from the preview adventure–but you can find it in just about any monster. And the monsters themselves have a ton of tactical depth.
The devils and demons of the Blood War have their cultist templates and demonic boons, Duergar and Gith have psionic powers to reflect the ministrations of the Illithids. Pick a section and you’ll find a mechanic that backs it up. Story is a little more at the forefront here, and it’s not just in the 114 pages of lore, setting information and so on–it’s in the mechanics themselves.
There are 140 monsters in the book, but it’s not just the number of monsters in the book–it’s the way they’re presented. That’s where Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes comes in. Encounters fuel adventures, adventures string together into campaigns–and the right encounter can be a seed for any or all of these. Whether it’s roleplaying with a shopkeeper, fighting assassins on a rooftop, or even just trying to figure out what glyphs unlock the next room. In Dungeons and Dragons, the smallest unit of gameplay can be broken down into a single encounter. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes makes building challenging encounters exciting–one of the reasons is the bounty of monsters available in it–but that’s only part of the equation.
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