Description
The Book of Extinction is a compendium of extinct animals, resurrected in roleplaying games. With real-world histories of the world’s most famous extinct animals—such as the dodo, saber-toothed tiger, and great auk—this book lets you learn about and play alongside these lost animals in D&D 5th Edition. But we didn’t stop there! Each animal is also reimagined as a magical creature, inspired by the legacy it left behind.
The Book of Extinction is a once-in-a-generation experiment with roleplaying, science, and history. You’ll experience enthralling and heartbreaking stories from around the world and learn the fundamentals of biology and conservation, all while paging through a Monster Manual that you can unleash at your table.
The Book of Extinction contains:
- 130+ mythic monsters
- Over 70 real extinction stories
- “Endling” player races — the last of their kind
- Revolutionary takes on classic monsters
The stories in this book are real. The Book of Extinction is one of the only D&D books to be carefully fact-checked by a science consultant (generously provided by the Center for Biological Diversity), to feature insight from dozens of interviews with experts, and to include hundreds of factual citations from primary sources.
Encounter the magical creatures inspired by these vanishing species. From the Dodos of the Feywild to saber-toothed weretigers, the Book of Extinction captures these moments in history with a uniquely mythic approach perfect for fantasy storytelling.
Embody an endling—a creature that is the very last of its kind—by playing one of five bespoke races introduced and driven to extinction in your next campaign. Play as a Primordial Elf, one of the divine forebears to all modern elves, or a Paleosapien, a raptor-like humanoid from before the rise of mankind. Or play as the Lob, an amicable fey creature living in exile from the Feywild, or one of the last Kore, a race of living statues hiding amongst the monuments of the Material Plane. You could also play the last of the living tree people, the Mandrakes, which once acted as delegates for Mother Nature herself.
This product is available for PRE-ORDER
Includes Book of Extinction PDF, early access to beta previews
