More Details on Fizban's Treasury of Dragons Through, As Always, Amazon Leak

 We now have some more details on the unannounced (until later today) Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.

Thanks to Nerd Immersion, which seems to pounce on any D&D new instantly (or at least he's always the one I hear it from first,) we have Amazon's page for the upcoming D&D supplement. This is not a setting book or an adventure - it's a broad lore-and-content expansion that looks like it will be most akin to the previous monster books, Volo's and Mordenkainen's.

The Amazon page, linked here, describes the book's features thusly:

We get Gem dragons in 5th edition. Gem dragons are the morally neutral counterpart to chromatic and metallic dragons. Additionally, gem dragons tend to have psionic abilities, and also tend to have breath weapons that use elements the other dragons don't - like thunder, force, and I believe radiant and psychic.

The book has DM tools for dragon-themed adventures including maps for dragon lairs and "detailed information about 20 different types of dragon." Now, I do wonder if that 20 is really 20 distinct dragons, or if we're talking about five types of Gem dragons (which would make sense given the 5 types each of metallic and chromatic) and then their four age-categories - wyrmlings, young dragons, adults, and ancient dragons.

Like most monster books, you'll get new races or subraces - in this case, it looks like the variant dragonborn from the recent UA are going to be added (I hope unchanged and then also that my DM lets me change my Eldritch Knight to the new version so I'll actually be able to use my breath weapon without wasting a whole action). However, unlike most monster books, this will also include new subclasses for the Ranger and Monk (guess I'll have to write an addendum to the Ranger subclass overview I wrote the other day,) along with new spells and a feat. The new kobold might have been left on the cutting room floor, but we shall see.

As mentioned before, there is a full dragon bestiary. In fact, it's possible I misinterpreted the "20 different dragons" thing, which was talking about lore, and it's possible that we'll either see 10 different kinds of gem dragons, or even that there will be a fourth category of dragon that is brand new in 5E. (Perhaps ethically neutral ones who run the gamut of moral alignments?) In addition to new dragon stats, there will also be stats for creatures like dragon minions and "aspects of the dragon gods," which I imagine means super boss monsters (I wonder if we'll get the CR 30 Tiamat stat block found in Rise of Tiamat reprinted here similar to how the Demon Lords in Out of the Abyss were reprinted in Mordenkainen's.)

Finally, the book promises to reveal the story of the "First World" and the role that major dragon gods Bahamut and Tiamat played in its creation and its destruction.

One of the grand ironies about dragons in Dungeons & Dragons is that it's rare to have a whole campaign revolving around them, even though they are the hands-down most iconic fantasy creature in the genre. Perhaps that's why - dragons are diluted because of the role they play in nearly every fantasy story, and so people don't tend to focus on them.

But they're definitely cool, and I think I'll be eager to get some material to play with them.