In the Astral Sea, the cruelest of liches thrive and even the asteroids are suspect. That's what you'll discover in Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures, the first in a series of monthly drops available to all D&D Beyond users! This collection brings 10 new monsters to your fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign, five from classic Spelljammer lore and five that are brand new. You won't find these monsters in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, either!
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What you'll discover in the Monstrous Compendium
In Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures, you'll come face to face with 10 unique monsters from the Spelljammer setting. Find out what happens when a spellcaster petitions a Great Old One for eternal life with the eldritch lich and see why Wildspace adventurers never trust a stray asteroid! Click below to see all of the monsters in this collection:
This is just the first volume of monsters coming to your D&D Beyond account! You'll be able to collect more creatures from across the multiverse as additional releases of Monstrous Compendium drop!
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Michael Galvis (@michaelgalvis) is a tabletop content producer for D&D Beyond. He is a longtime Dungeon Master who enjoys horror films and all things fantasy and sci-fi. When he isn’t in the DM’s seat or rolling dice as his anxious halfling sorcerer, he’s playing League of Legends and Magic: The Gathering with his husband. They live together in Los Angeles with their adorable dog, Quentin.
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Posted Apr 23, 2022Some sweet and heavy monsters included in this short book. Watch out, players! This will change your game.
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Posted Apr 24, 2022everyone gets the 10
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Posted Apr 26, 2022Super glad to see this series back from 2e! Nicely done!
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Posted May 1, 2022Can anyone tell me where I can create a character with 4 th addition using all possible books that Kurt’s u pick spells/daily powers/ extra online? For free of for small fee?
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Posted May 4, 2022An Eldritch Lich?? I already love em.
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Posted Jun 1, 2022When is the second of these supposed to come out? It’s already been a month…
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Posted Jun 2, 2022I was just wondering the same thing.
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Posted Jun 4, 2022This is an awesome addition but when will the other installments drop? I thought it was going to be a monthly release
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Posted Jul 29, 2022I’ve got to incorporate these creatures in my Spelljammer campaign!
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Posted Sep 17, 2022Wasn't it going to be monthly? Where's the rest of the monstrous compendium?
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Posted Sep 17, 2022they forgot
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Posted Sep 20, 2022I'd love to see a Volume Two now that the Spelljammer set is out :)
Loved these 10 and the special way they fit the sci-fi theme of Spelljammer!
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Posted Nov 7, 2022I think the intended meaning was that the first volume is the first in a general series of monthly drops, not a series of drops regarding the compendium in particular, but even in that case...we're still a couple months overdue by my reckoning (this for April/May, Vecna dossier in June, and then the Spelljammer Academy over several weeks of July are about it, as far as I can tell).
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Posted Nov 8, 2022They literally said that there would be more releases of this compendium, which is disappointing, honestly.
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Posted Nov 9, 2022I wasn't disputing that there would be more compendium volumes eventually, I just think they weren't exclusively referring to the compendium series when they mentioned there would be free monthly content, given the subsequent drops we saw with the Vecna Dossier and Spelljammer Academy. Monthly compendium releases, as cool as they would be, wouldn't necessarily make sense for them to do based on how many products they release and how many of those products could realistically benefit from a free tie-in like this. Therefore, if they're continuing this series at all and didn't just quietly kill it when they thought no one was looking, the best bet is probably something connected to the upcoming Dragonlance revival or some of the new stuff coming out next year.
Of course, even under my liberal interpretation of what they were promising with these monthly drops, they've still been slacking for a whole two months, so even if we don't see eye to eye on this, disappointment in them is at least something we have in common.