First Published 4 March 2021

Xanathar's Guide To Everything

Released 12 November 2017

The Xanathar, Waterdeep's most notorious crime lord, decided there were holes in the information available to D&D players and DMs, so with assistance from his beloved goldfish Sylgar decided to publish Xanathar's Guide To Everything on 21 November 2017. The Xanathar is known to hoard information on friend and foe alike.

In this book you'll find 192 pages of new rules and story options for all the character classes in the Player's Handbook, including over twenty-five new (well-balanced) subclasses. The book also presents new spells for both player characters and monsters. Dungeon Masters will find new rules for traps, magic items, downtime activities, and more - all designed to enhance a D&D campaign and push it in new directions.

Discounting Volo's Guide To Monsters (which was kinda like an extension of the Monster Manual) this was the first real expansion book published for 5th edition, and it seems the new approach is to include content for everyone in expansions. There is an equal amount of DM and player content included - and the content is really great, with no real weak points to mention. If Volo's was an extension to the Monster Manual you could say this is half extension to the Player's Handbook and half to the Dungeon Master's Guide.

Xanathar's Guide To Everything Deluxe Edition