The Dungeons and Dragons books ranked

Today, we are going to rank the Dungeons and Dragons books from most necessary to least necessary. The Dungeons and Dragons core set books have been out for almost 5 years and since then, loads more books have been coming out. In this post, you will find out which books are right for you and which books you need.

Tier One: Necessary

The Player's handbook

Interesting characters are the foundation of a great story. The Player's Handbook is the first book to have come out in Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. The Player's handbook provides you with loads of classes, races, backstories, flaws, bonds, ideals and character traits to build fun characters with. The Player's handbook also contains all of the basic rules, needed to play Dungeons and Dragons. Since the basic rules can be found in this book, it is the most necessary out of all Dungeons and Dragons books and every player of the game should have a copy.

The Monster Manual

A great Dungeon Master can't play without a copy of the Monster Manual behind his(or hers) dm screen. This book provides Dungeon Masters with over a hundred monsters to face their adventurers with. The Monster Manual is the second book to have come out in Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. No Dungeon Master can go without his(or hers) menagerie of monsters, that's why this book is in the first tier.

Tier two: Great additions

The Dungeon Master's guide

This core rulebook for the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game features advice and rules for Dungeon Masters of all levels of experience, with a particular focus on running adventures and campaigns. It also provides Dungeon Masters with hundreds of magic items to award players in their campaigns. It is a great addition and can certainly help create wonderful stories for your players to emmerse themselves in.

Xanathar's guide to everything

Xanathar's guide to everything provides extra depth for players, with additional subclasses for adventurers, and nifty tables, extra rules and more magic items for Dungeon Masters. This book is another great addition for your Dungeons and Dragons book arsenal. It can definitely make your games more interesting.

Tier three: Expansions

Volo's guide to monsters

My personal favourite Dungeons and Dragons book, Volo's Guide To Monsters, provides players with monstrous races and dungeon masters with more monsters and lore for classic monsters such as hags, kobolds, goblinoids, beholders, giants and mind flayers. It is a great expansion to your collection and these monsters can suprise the players who know every monster in the Monster Manual.

Mordenkainen's tome of foes

This book is another great expansion to your Dungeons and Dragons book collection. It contains more lore on classic Dungeons and Dragons races and lore about the blood war, an ancient conflict between demons and devils. It also contains more monsters to throw at your Adventuring Party. This is a great pick for a dungeon master who wants to up their Dungeons and Dragons game.

Guildmasters' guide to Ravnica

If you're looking for a book to set your Dungeons and Dragons campaign in a Magic The Gathering setting, look no further, this is it. This book contains lore on the Magic The Gathering world of Ravnica. It's contents help you build characters and write stories fitting in the Ravnica setting. It also contains a short adventure(it took us about two sessions to complete) called Krenko's Way.

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