The 3E artwork makes it veryВ tall and awkward-looking, too. it's honestly not even that interesting, just an oversized albino gorilla with a set of smaller arms under its nipples. One of the many, manyВ bizarre magical beasts introduced in 3E (which admittedly does dilute the monster pool a lot, but a godsend for wacky and bizarre monster designs) is the Girallon, and it's one that's unexpectedly returned in 5th edition.

Click here for the second part of Volo's, covering Nilbog to Yuan-ti variants.

Click here for the first part of Volo's, covering Banderhobb to Froghemoth.

well, I'm not going to break down every single minutiae about the book, yeah? I mean, it's actually a pretty great read, and I do encourage you guys to look it up for your own if you're interested in D&D monster lore.

I don't think I'll be adding too much to the other races expanded upon in Volo's? A lot of the new cultural aspects to, like, orcs and gnolls and giants and kobolds and whatnot sort of get wrapped up in the new variants introduced here, and the other aspects of their culture is. I actually finished reading the entirety of Volo's Guide to Monsters last night, and. He's made cameo appearances in the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights games, too! Volo essentially makes some in-universe little annotations here and there, although it's kept to a relative minimum other than a foreword in Volo's Guide to Monsters.

I suppose I should talk a bit about who the titular 'Volo' is, huh? Volothamp Geddarm is a recurring character in the Forgotten Realms setting, and is the in-universe author of many sourcebooks ever since 2E, providing in-universe descriptions of many aspects of the realms and its denizens, traveling with his long-suffering elder wizard editor, Elminster. The second part of my review of the monsters in the 5th Edition D&D sourcebook Volo's Guide to Monsters.

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