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• Player's Handbook

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  The most important book of all! The PHB has all of the most essential information for running a game of D&D, even if you only have this book.

• Dungeon Master's Guide

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  The second most important book, the DMG dives into designing and running games, more advanced rules options, and lots of dice tables to randomly generate ideas.

• Monster Manual

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  For all of your monster needs! Everything from Aarakocra to Yugoloths, add in all sorts of foes for your players to face .

• The Ultimate RPG Game Master's Worldbuilding Guide

  Prompts and Activities to Create and Customize Your Own Game World

  D'Amato, James,

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  An excellent place to start for making your own campaign setting! Plenty of prompts, exercises, and activities to help the beginning worldbuilder find their feet, nicely divided into genres.

• Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

  Mercer, Matthew

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  The setting guide for the second campaign of Critical Role, put together by Matthew Mercer! Live out your own Critical Role story!

• The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide

  Role-play the Best Campaign Ever-- No Matter the Game!

  D'Amato, James

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  Want to take your campaign to the next level? Or unsure about the best way to actually play the games? This one has excellent warm-ups, pre-game discussions, practice activities, and exercises to make your game play experience truly legendary.

• The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters

  Ashworth, Jeff,

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  Random Tables- the game master's best friend. When your players throw a wrench into your carefully planned campaign story, you can rely on this one to help stir up a great side-quest until you can bring them back in. Includes maps, a one-shot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Monsters Know What They're Doing

  Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters

  Ammann, Keith,

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  Keep combat-based encounters fresh, exciting, and dangerous with tactics and strategies for a wide variety of common D&D monsters to keep your players on their toes.

• Eberron

  Rising From the Last War

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  An iconic D&D world, Eberron trades the traditional heroic fantasy tropes for a world of magical technology ranging from airships to trains, with lots of film noir and pulp adventure mix. Perfect place to start a new campaign with a unique setting!…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

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  New game rules, more subclasses, plenty of puzzles, and other expanded game options! Includes stuff for, well, basically everything!

• Volo's Guide to Monsters

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  New player species, a more in-depth look at several iconic D&D monsters, and close to a hundred more monster options, this books does an excellent job giving you more monsters for to challenge your players with!

• Xanathar's Guide to Everything

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  With 25 new subclasses, a system for randomly generating backstories on the fly, and expanded guidance for DM's, and many new spell options, this is another excellent reference book to help expand your options.

• Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

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  The most popular official D&D setting, this book gives players everything they need to play on the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms of Faerun, and all the information you could need to run a Sword Coast Adventurer's campaign! Famous cities like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

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  Did you know the official D&D setting is composed of a multiverse? This hefty tome dives into the conflicts that plague the multiverse as a whole, as well as including new monsters and player species options! Especially useful for higher level play…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heroes' Feast

  the Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook

  Newman, Kyle, 1976-

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  Liven things up with some real-world food! Recipes from all sorts of D&D cultures! Includes recipes for Iron Rations, Bytopian Shepherd's Bread, Moonshae Seafood Risotto, Hommlet Golden Brown Roasted Turkey, and Elven Bread!