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) Hardcover – October 31, 2023

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!

Some great villain ideas that can be dropped into a campaign. As the author states, these are not fast and hard rules but ideas and additions to put into a one-shot and the backstories again are ideas and not hard and fast rules. Everything from a group of charlatan tax collectors to the sort of boss that is an end world BBGE.Hardcover, sits on the shelf and great paper stock.

I love these books they are a great read and very helpful when trying to think of new places and enemies and traps I have almost all the books and I love them very easy to use

An absolute joy to read. Villains are always heroes of their own story, and this book gives extensive detail and background to make these heroes so villainous. After reading this, I decided to write an entire campaign based around a couple of these bad guys because the stories they told were so inspiring.It will be a joy to you and your players.

This book has some very good resources in it, but mostly it relies on having a LOT of material. Chances are something in it will help with any scenario you’re running. It is pretty system neutral- but definitely works best with D&D, Pathfinder, high fantasy type setting.

When my son opened his birthday gift and saw this - he got VERY excited. He said he cannot wait to use this in a campain. So many to choose from that can be used in so many ways!!!

Book is great!! Nice price. Helpful for a new DM learning how to play and develop bad guys.Just beware of amazon packing. 2 books in a box that was too big with just a wrinkled piece of packing paper for cushion that really did nothing to protect the books. Damaged a corner of the book (torn and dented). Nothing too horrible, just disappointing.Not the seller's fault, but just an FYI

This book has the same feel as core books tgat cost twice as much. It has a good weight and feels like a high quality effort.The content is well organized, entertaining, and plentiful. I have bought 3rd party materials that make big claims only to arrive with minimal content ot poor craftsmanship. This is not that. I have been impressed enough to purchase at least 4 of the Gamemasters Guides series and have plans to purchase some upcoming titles (despite not actually having a group currently). So far, none have disappointed.