We thought it was a good time to update you on our plans for Level Up in 2023. There are some changes from previous timelines and some new additions.

With millions of people watching Stranger Things this month, you might be curious what the Level Up version of an archlich might look like.

If you love dragons, and don’t have the Monstrous Menagerie yet, here’s a preview of one iconic monster: the blue dragon! The MoMe has nearly 100 pages of dragons, including chromatic, metallic, essence, and gem dragons.

The Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie has dragons–lots of dragons. With 85 pages of true dragons (about 90 stat blocks and variants) and 15 more pages of dragon turtles, sea serpents, and so on, we have a full source book’s worth of draconic friends and foes.

The back of the Monstrous Menagerie contains a handy list of all the creatures and NPCs within sorted by CR.

One of our goals with the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie was to make enemy spellcasters less of a pain to run.

Want to see what’s in each book? Check out the tables of contents below!

The Monstrous Menagerie has an appendix which lists all of the monsters in the book in order of Challenge Rating. Here it is!

Yesterday we shared the Core Rulebook’s 6-page introduction chapter. Today it’s time for the Monstrous Menagerie’s introduction pages!

Along with new monster math and CR values, we have a robust encounter building system (in which you can combine both monsters and exploration challenges).

As you may know by now, we’ve done a lot of work with monsters in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition.

Work is continuing apace on the Level Up book, with the core rulebook 80% written now and in the editing stage. In the meantime, let’s take a look at some more of the art!

This week we’re going to take a look at some more art from the Level Up books! Today we’ll focus on monsters.

If you follow us on Twitter you may have seen the Bugbear preview we shared a few days ago. Below, there’s a bigger monster. A green dragon.

Over on EN World you can see a preview of some of the diverse art you’ll find in the Level Up core rulebooks.

This article talks about three of the tools that GMs have available to create a rich and vibrant environment.

In another post, I talked about the updates we’re making to monster stat blocks. Today, I want to talk about the changes we’re making to the rest of the monster entry.

We’re publishing a heroic fantasy RPG, so we need monsters. A whole damn book of them.