# Volo's Guide to Monsters

Volo's Guide to Monsters is a board game for 0 players.

- **Players:** 0
- **Complexity:** 3.3 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2016
- **Categories:** Sourcebook (rules/options to enhance play)
- **Mechanics:** Dice (Primarily d20), Level Based (Earn XP and level up), Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay), Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc), Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc), Random Attribute Generation (during Character Creation), Progression Tree (Skills, professions, magic abilities, etc.), Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc), Skill Based (buy or gain skills)
- **Owned by:** 1 Ludoya players

**Designers:** Christopher Perkins, Chris Sims, Matthew Sernett, Steve Winter, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Crawford, Kim Mohan, Sean K. Reynolds, Adam Lee, Mike Mearls

**Artists:** Craig J. Spearing, Michael Faille, Jared Blando, Eva Widermann, Stephen Crowe, Ben Wootten, Dave Dorman, Daarken, Tom Baxa, Tyler Jacobson, Shawn Wood, John-Paul Balmet, Tom Babbey, Scott Murphy, Scott Fischer, Mark Behm, Brynn Metheney, Sam Burley, Christopher Bradley, Richard Whitters, Jorge Lacera, Franz Vohwinkel, Lake Hurwitz, Eric Deschamps, Jim Nielsen, Daniel Ljunggren, Jeremy Jarvis, Christopher Burdett, Filip Burburan, Marco Nelor, Howard Lyon, Chris Seaman, Cory Trego-Erdner, Warren Mahy, Lars Grant-West, Emi Tanji, Conceptopolis, Marc Sasso, Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, Eric Belisle, Hydro74

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/volos-guide-to-monsters)
- [Volo's Guide to Monsters in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/volos-guide-to-monsters)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/203812)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-19. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._