Xanathar's Guide to Everything is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published in 2017. It acts as a supplement to the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide and the Player's Handbook. Contents The book adds a variety of options for both players and Dungeon Masters along with marginalia by the Xanathar of Waterdeep. Chapter 1: Character Options Includes 31 new subclasses, 2 or 3 for each of the twelve character classes. A variety of character background ideas such as origins and life events. New racial feats. Chapter 2: Dungeon Master's Tools Revisits and expands on traps and downtime activities rules. In-depth coverage of tool proficiencies and spellcasting. A new magic items sections expands the DMG and adds new minor items. Includes a variety of other DM tools such as random encounters and simultaneous effects. Chapter 3: Spells Appendix A: Shared Campaigns Appendix B: Character names Includes nonhuman names as well as real-world and real-world inspired human names. Publication history Much of the information in Xanathar's Guide to Everything was developed through the public "Unearthed Arcana" playtest and several character subclasses were previously published in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. During the Extra Life 2017 fundraiser in November 2017, free excerpts from Xanathar's Guide to Everything were released as PDFs when different reward tiers were hit. The book was released on November 21, 2017. An exclusive edition with an alternate art cover by Hydro74 was pre-released to select game shops early in November 2017. Dungeons & Dragons Rules Expansion Gift Set, a boxed set, contains Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse (2022) along with new printings of Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2020); it was released on January 25, 2022. An exclusive edition, with white foil alternate art covers by Joy Ang, is only available through local game stores. Reception Xanathar's Guide to Everything won the 2017 Origins Awards for Best Role-Playing Game Supplement and Fan Favorite Role-Playing Game Supplement. In Publishers Weekly's "Best-selling Books Week Ending December 4, 2017", Xanathar's Guide to Everything was #1 in "Hardcover Nonfiction". Publishers Weekly highlighted that the book "sold nearly 45,000 copies" as a new release. ICv2 underscored that these numbers originate from BookScan and include point of sale "data from most chains and online retailers, but not most [Friendly Local Game Stores]". Scott Thorne, for ICv2, highlighted two interconnected reasons for the