The Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions and Their Tactics: Epic new antagonists for your PCs, plus new minions, fighting tactics, and guidelines ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)

Most monster books just give you stats, art, and a paragraph or two of lore. This goes beyond: personal history of the characters, motivations, Tactics, plot hooks, lair maps. Excellent resource for a DM on a Time Crunch

I now have 5 books out of this series and I'm certain I'll end up with all of them! As a new DM that needs to work on his NPC and role-playing skills, this book has been a lifesaver! The book gives you a ton of options for excellent NPCs and their minions that can easily be plugged into a new or ongoing adventure. It helps you strategies and put together interesting tactics for monsters within dnd that rapidly improves your speed and quality of building encounters that are both challenging and interesting. Finally, more 1 shot adventures! As a new DM they've been extremely helpful in helping me learn how to create my own standalone adventures and my players (3 of 4 are veterans) have loved them so far! My only knock on all the books is that though they're hardback, the corners of the book get worn and frayed easily. But it doesn't really matter. These books are so good I will eventually have all of them in the set and a second copy of each so I have a nice copy for the bookshelf and my DM copy that's beat up and worn. I would say out if the 5 I've purchased so far, I'd buy 1) Random Encounters 2) NPCs 3) this book. If I'm on a limited budget and I need to start my adventure right away!

Book is well made. The art on and in it is amazing. The time they put in to it definitely shows. Helps the games we play varry happy with it. Perfect for a gift for any gm

I'm getting ready to run Nicodemus past a new group of players. Page 15 of this book. Well written backstory and goal prompts make the villains very easy to 'drag and drop' into any story. They also have a book of NPC'S that I used to let Dumas the orc help my new crew into hoard of the dragon queen. The night 1 fight where you need to take back the portfolio or whatever. Dumas made a great add on to a small team that we co-controlleed while the ranger tried to take over the draco-dog in the encounter. These books are so worth it for the ideas alone. Buy all the books. They are WORTH it!

Let's start by saying that this book is of an extremely high quality as far as material and art goes. These are the types of books you show your friends to show how cool TTRPGs can be. I don't have any concern about these two areas. The content is also varied and offers a great glimpse into what could be villains on a fantasy game like D&D. Interesting tactics when running encounters are accompanied with interesting personalities and motivations. The content is solid. The reason for 4 stars is that I bought on reviews that mentioned that this is a great resource to any GM, but I disagree. This book is geared towards D&D 5e and if you are a starting GM on any other system, like Pathfinder or any other fantasy setting, a big chunk of the book will not provide great insight. If you are an experienced DM, then you will probably love some of the material, but more than likely, most you will already know most of it. So, this is a great 5e product, probably better for DMs than most other Wizards' own publications, and I highly recommend it for any DM, specially new ones who want to learn. A good read for any other system.

Absolutely fantastic book. We'll worth the price. I purchased all the other ones. I've been playing D&D since 1978, these books have been a game changer!

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My favorite book from the series so far! Just the tactical recommendations for creatures makes this book top tier!

This book is awesome! I use it often as DM. You select a villain and because of the extra background information you get, you can easily come up with a one-shot adventure that fits the bad guy. You can lay out a new adventure every week with minimal effort :-) The villains are original and well designed and for some of them, there are even a few short adventures worked out in the book. Very good!!!

Artes muito bonitas e vilões com backgrounds interessantes para qualquer campanha e cenário. Chegou em perfeito estado.

I am a gamemaster, but I do not run D&D. I run another D20 game system in a homebrew fantasy world. Even so, this book is great value. I have not read the book from front to cover. I checked out the BBEG's based on art and read parts of the tactics and creation sections. The content is inspiring, paper and cover quality is great, and the art is excellent. The first chapter provides you with lots of ideas per BBEG how to implement them and how to let the players know of the evil actions of the BBEG. Another chapter includes guidelines on creating you own Villains, from a high level perspective like archetypes and their schemes (there are enough 5e statblocks or "evil actions" to use in the first chapter). I still have to read the adventures included in the book. It's my 3rd book from this series that I've purchased, and I like them all. Great, inspiring books.

Great product and value

Bought for my husband. He was Delighted