D&D adds Minecraft monsters with free Monstrous Compendium DLC
polygon.comMinecraft’s explosive Creeper, teleporting Enderman, and colossal Ender Dragon are coming to Dungeons & Dragons. The digital content, titled Monstrous Compendium Volume 3, will be available through D&D Beyond, publisher Wizards of the Coast’s official portal for digital D&D content. Wizards and Minecraft maker Mojang announced the new compendium on Tuesday during a D&D Direct streaming presentation.
Of course, there was nothing stopping fans of the classic tabletop role-playing game from creating their own version of these monsters before today. It’s just that these have been made in partnership with Mojang. The Microsoft-owned studio has also worked with Wizards to create some 10 hours of D&D-themed DLC for Minecraft— a project that was also revealed today. Moreover, design work on the tabletop creatures has been handled by Wizards’ Dan Dillon, a veteran game designer with experience on both Pathfinder and D&D.
“They don’t interact in the normal action system,” said Dillon, somewhat cryptically, during a press briefing earlier this week. “They work in a way that makes them more reminiscent of how they operate in Minecraft. So that’s going to be a funny sort of twist on how a monster works.”
Previous entries in the Monstrous Compendium series have included Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures and Monstrous Compendium Volume Two: Dragonlance Monsters. Notably, only Spelljammer Creatures has so far been released as a PDF file. Meanwhile, Dragonlance Monsters was only made available through D&D Beyond. The same is true of Volume 3.
Today’s announcement is not the first partnership to bring outside IP into D&D. Previous partnerships have included Nerds candy, Penny Arcade’s Acquisitions Incorporated, and
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