Talk:Volo's Guide to Monsters

Ooh, this one sounds fun. ~ Lhynard (talk) 17:25, September 3, 2016 (UTC)

Relevance?
I've been seeing a lot of new monsters with no apparent connection to the Realms bar appearing in this book. So is everything in this book explicitly set in the Forgotten Realms? Or are Volo and Elminster simply used as a framing device to introduce a lot of generic setting lore? The Forgotten Realms becoming a core setting will be hard on the wiki, I fear.


 * Aye, the book is written primarily from a Forgotten Realms perspective. Setting-specific information is noted as such. There's also this, from the introduction: "For the benefit of DMs and players everywhere, Volo and Elminster share their insights with regard to some of the monsters found herein, and their words hold a measure of truth regardless of the D&D world in which these monsters are met.". So yes, it is a framing device, but at the same time most of it is implicitly or explicitly Realmsian. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 12:16, December 27, 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Still, I feel it would be fair to mark these pages with Unrelated. These creatures may technically exist in the Realms via this book, but the stubby pages often don't contain Realmslore to make them setting specific. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:23, December 27, 2016 (UTC)