This book features some of the famous dungeons and monsters found in some of the Wizard of the Coast Modules. Some of these places include: Ironslag, the Temple of Elemental Evil, Ravenloft and Undermoutain to name a few. Each dungeon section features a intro to the location, an overview and list of important places, and a "spotlight." To help build creativity and start a conversation there is a story prompt labeled under "Dungeon Master" questions for the player character to consider based on that location/adventure and then a prewritten "encounter" which is a story about a hero at that location with questions on how the dear reader things that hero should proceed. There is also a small Dungeon bestiary and a section that talks about building your own dungeon. The building the dungeon goes over creating a concept, what to put in a dungeon, traps and map making.

What I loved most about this book: I like that there is interesting information on each of these creatures that you don't always see in the monster manual. There is also "Do This/ Don't Do This" sections to help adventurers be successful. The bestiary does have different monsters than the Monsters & Creatures book.

This book goes over different fantasy races that an adventurer can choose along with some more of the classic classes to choose from. The races also have some of the more exotic races including dragonborn, kenku, tabaxi, tiefling and tortle. Each race comes with some basic yes/no questions to see if that race might fit your character. The classes in this book does not include the magic classes featured in Wizards & Spells.

Pages 28-55 features classes that include paladin, fighter, barbarian, monk, and some others. Each class also has a featured legendary hero that made that class famous (such as the barbarian Wulfgar, and Bruenor Battlehammer the fighter). There is also information on some character backgrounds to inspire a backstory, and thinking points on what makes your character special.

The second half of the book goes over character gear from what your character is wearing to what is in your bags. The book goes over weapons and armors by type. There is also a warning and two pages about Rust Monsters and how they affect your gear.

What I loved most about this book: I love the gear breakdowns of the book. I love that it shows labeled diagrams of what is considered your survival gear, what comes in your adventuring kits and helps with the image of what is your player character toting around to make sure of their survival. You don't always get to see what is in the packs and I love the artist renditions.

This book is a young adventure's book teaching about the monsters. The book is organized into sections based on terrain and ecosystems. Each section has quite a few examples of monsters from different difficulty levels. In each terrain there is also a written out "Encounter" that can be read to bring out the imagination of young adventurers to think about what they would do in those situations. There is also a featured Legendary Monster in the different areas. The Legendary foes include: Demogorgon, Duke Zalto Fire giant, Count Strahd Con Zarovich and Tiamat, the Queen of Evil Dragons.

What I loved most about this book: I love that this book is not just another monster manual. It could be used as a research guide that your young adventurer found in the library while doing research on creatures. I enjoy the art work, the little notes on its special powers and the non-technicality that comes to each of the entries.

This book covers the magical world of Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard. After reading all the class info and an example hero from each class, a flow chart is also provided on page 28 and 29 to see what magic class might be best for you based on some simple questions/answer combinations.

Pages 31-75 all focus on magic. On page 31 there is a lot of text to briefly go over all the types of magic. The book gives an easy understanding of how rituals, scrolls, and spellcasting works. Following a brief explanation on concentration the next part gives examples of some spells from a variety of cantrips up to level 9 spells. There is 2-4 examples in each of the levels show casing a spell from different schools of magic. It has some classic spells such as cure wounds, magic missiles, call lightning and hero's feast.

The last section goes over some of the Magical Items. It talks briefly about attunement before show casing some of these magical goodies. Some subsections also has a legendary item page to go with as well. I particularly like reading about the Wand of Wonder to my students.

What I loved most about this book: I love in the spells section that it gives more information on the spells and little spell tips to help guide players in the right direction. I also love that after each of the classes it gives a two page story of a legendary hero of that class (such as Mordenkainen).