Wow six days since I’ve posted on here. That’s nearly a record. But understandable considering the world we currently live in.

Over the last few weeks I have got some D&D related reading material in.

The first being Volo’s Guide to Monsters. It nearly was Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, but the chapter in Volo’s on monster lore for some of the more popular monsters like beholders, goblins, orcs, etc is what swung it for me. With the lair maps for the relevant monster these are instant adventures/encounters you can call upon at any time.

I’ve been a fan of The Monsters Know What They’re Doing blog for a while now. Being able to look up a monster and get some tactics for it that is not just attack until dead or run away, making them more intelligent, challenging and believable is a great thing to have.

And although this book is a collection of the blog postings that have been revisited, corrected, expanded and some new monsters, just having them in print and handy is a great reason to buy this.

Finally as promised Mythic Odysseys of Theros has finally hit the FLGS. The alt art FLGS exclusive cover is gorgeous. And foil! Sadly the promised double sided Theros map didn’t make it to the FLGS at the same time. With no hint of when it will arrive. Which as far as I can see means extra cost to the FLGS to send them out to customers. I knew WotC would manage to screw things up for this somehow.

With the new wave of Wizkids minis hitting stores I took the opportunity to buy a miniature to add to my undead horde now it was a reasonable price to get. I’ll reveal more about that mini in another post once it’s here and painted.

At the same time I ordered another Minotaur skeleton by Wizkids. Which I didn’t realise was pre-painted.

A bit of a result that. Saves me the job of doing it.

But the amount of packaging was ridiculous. So much waste. Wizkids could easily have used half of the amount. It’s instantly gone in the recycling bin.