Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons is everything I’ve wanted out of a Dungeons & Dragons book for years – a hoard of useful tools for both players and Dungeon Masters that expands on the game in meaningful and useful ways. The very first page of Dungeons & Dragons’ new book Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons makes it clear that the new tome is very different than just about everything else released by Wizards of the Coast in recent years. The book opens with an “ancient Draconic tome” titled “Elegy for the First World” which provides an intriguing new take on the origins of D&D’s Material Plane and its ties to the iconic dragons who have a seemingly oversized sway on the various worlds of the D&D multiverse. The poem is used to set the tone for over 220 pages of draconic material touching almost every corner of D&D, but it’s also used as a framing device of sorts that’s referred back to at multiple points in the book. It’s a subtle bit of writing, but it provides a level of cohesiveness that we really haven’t seen before in this style of D&D book during the game’s current Fifth Edition.
