In our latest preview video, learn more about the fiendish options in "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes": the blood war one
of the greatest conflicts in the D&D
multiverse and so naturally because of
having a whole chapter on that we wanted
to make sure to also include in the book
a number of fiendish options so that
chapter includes options for various
diabolical and demonic cults it provides
new tiefling sub-race options which we
previewed versions of an unearned Arcana
it has ways to customize Camby ins it
also includes in the bestiary a number
of new demons devils and yuga watts we
wanted to provide stats for some of the
most powerful participants in the blood
war and so we have statistics for a
number of arch Devils and also for
everyone’s convenience we have brought
the demon Lords who appeared in out of
the abyss and put them in this book as
well so essentially if you if you wanted
to have a big versus match you could
have the demon Lords versus the arch
Devils all all in one book now when it
comes to the options in the blood war
chapter that are specifically for
players we delve into ways that your
tiefling that you play could be shaped
by a connection to a particular ruler of
hell now T feelings are not the children
of those rulers but they can be shaped
by the fiendish influence of the
particular rulers and the layer of hell
that those rulers are from and so as
people son on earth are Kanna
we provide ways of customizing your
tiefling to say well mighty fleeing is
somehow connected to Memphis tahvalli’s
and because of that I have a different
different magical options from other tea
flings and a number of these options
have been tweaked as a result of play
test feedback we go
after the unearthed Arcana so we do
similar customization things fork
ambiens in the monster manual there is
the cambian and that can be and is
really meant to represent a creature
that is the offspring typically of a
mortal and a succubus or an incubus or
or a or a fiendish being like gratz or
any other fiendish power that tends to
be beguiling and sort of a tempter we
decided we wanted to provide cambian
options that would represent better a
being that instead was the offspring of
maybe a fiendish creature that is not so
beguiling that maybe is more more about
brute strength or some other quality and
so again we give you this ability to
swap out certain abilities in the
Monster Manual tiefling I’m sorry the
Monster Manual cambian to associate that
cambian with either one of the great
powers of the abyss or one of the great
powers of the nine hells the cult
options people also got to see a bit in
unearthed Arcana and here we give you
ways to customize the members of
infernal cults that is cults dedicated
to the powers of hell by giving those
cultists different abilities that will
make the members of one cult feel
distinct from the members of another one
as people saw an under Cana many of
these options are meant to build on stat
blocks you already have for example the
Monster Manual in its NPC appendix
includes a cultists taplok and a cult
leader snap-loc so we give you abilities
that you can basically plug into those
stat blocks to make them come alive as
members of a particular cult like here’s
alright this cult is dedicated to Belial
or this cult is dead
dissipater and because of that
association this Cultus has this
particular power then a member of
another cult does not have so we also do
a similar thing for cultists and just
followers in general of demon Lords in
our Demon Lord and into a demon cult
coverage it’s a little less organization
specific hell being the plain of lawful
evil is all about organizations and
despite being evil really likes things
to be tidy and hierarchical and so cults
are a natural fit for arch Devils and
their minions many demon Lords also have
cults but as beings of chaos there are
also just individuals who dedicate
themselves to the forces of the abyss
and get filled with its dark power and
so we provide options again not only for
members of demonic cults but also some
of these remarkable terrible individuals
who have been blessed in some way by a
demon lord
so put all of these together the book
provides a lot of tools especially for
the dungeon master to really customize
villain groups that the player
characters can go up against some people
have wondered are these cult options or
demonic boons are they meant for player
characters the answer is no they’ve been
designed for NPCs and from monsters a DM
could probably customize them to work
for player characters but the target
we’re aiming at is basically here’s how
to make some bad guys who really bear
the marks of these evil Plains that they
have pledged themselves to when it comes
to the monsters in the bestiary
I mentioned you have some really big
bads in the form of the arch Devils and
the demon Lords we also provide new
rank-and-file demons new rank-and-file
Devils and also array of new you
loss to complement the ones in the
Monster Manual you go las have always
been particularly interesting to me
because they pull the strings in the
blood war and they play both sides
against each other
you Galatz also in some ways you can
bargain with more easily than you can
Devils or demons because they are beings
of contracts and beings of agreements
now they will try to turn them against
you they have this in common with Devils
but it’s actually conceivable that you
could work for a little while with a
lugal off until you discover how it’s
been playing you for its own nefarious
ends and so the book goes into a little
bit as well about Google offs their role
in the in the blood war and also how
mortals get entangled with you Galatz
at various times like and like with the
devils and demons a number of the you
goth stat blocks that we provide are in
the sort of mid to high CR range and
that’s a theme in a lot of the bestiary
is to provide stat blocks to help
populate dungeons and other environments
at higher levels of play there are still
certainly low level Losey are rather
monsters in Morden Kanaan’s Toma foes
but we felt that between the monster
manual and Volos guide to monsters the
game has a lot of monstrous options for
lower level pcs so we thought time to
beef up the higher end a bit and and so
these fiendish options are part of that
effort Thank You Jeremy Crawfordhttps://t.co/VzNHFdwq32 via @YouTube #DnD

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 22, 2018