D&D (2024) Take A Closer Look At The 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide

Wizards of the Coast has just shared a video delving into the upcoming One D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide, due for release in 2024.

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Scroll down to post #4, below, for a more detailed text summary!

• Chapter 1 -- basic concepts
• Chapter 2 -- Advice, common issues
• Chapter 3 -- Rules cyclopedia
• Chapter 4 -- Adventure building
• Chapter 5 -- Campaign building
• Chapter 6 -- Cosmology
• Chapter 7 -- Magic items
• Chapter 8 -- 'A surprise'
• Appendices -- maps, lore glossary

 

[FitzTheRuke]

For what it’s worth, nobody seems to be talking about the most mechanically interesting dragons that WotC published in D&D: the (chromatic dragons from 2011’s Monster Vault).

5E’s monster design in 2014 was a major step backward.

You're 100% right. After quite a bit of trouble with the math (mostly making monsters too big a bag of HP with some hard-to-hit defenses) and action economy (not nearly formidable enough for the PCs), Monster Vault improved monster design immensely.

5e monsters are pretty boring by comparison. IMO, Monsters of the Multiverse is a step in the right direction, but it needs to be pushed further. Hopefully they'll step it up once more in the new MM.

 

[mamba]

Again, page after page of threads on this would argue otherwise.

not really, it shows that people who want to twist things, can and do. This is not evidence of actual confusion as to what WotC is saying or intending

 

[mamba]

They also refer to it as an "update", an "evolution", something "built on top of" the current core rules and even "the next generation".

One might easily imagine the team was told "you can call it whatever you want, as long as you never utter the word edition"

yes, chances are they avoid the word edition for a reason and call it a revision or generation instead.

Clear evidence that it actually is a new edition

 

[Zaukrie]

Oh gawd please, please, no more dragons. Look, I love dragons. I do. But, there's what, 15 pages of bloody dragons in the 5e MM? And realistically? There isn't a whole lot of difference between each one. Adding 5 more dragon types? No thanks.



Oh, YES PLEASE!!!

Agreed. You could have one entry for each age and just change the breath weapon, and you almost have a WotC dragon...... Way too many pages of them.

 

[Argyle King]

Most 5E books have not had an Index, I could see them skipping it.

Yeah...

"Hey, people say it's confusing to find information in our book."
"Maybe we should try including an index."
"Nah."

 

[Zaukrie]

I wish the moderators would stop all this talk in every thread about what this edition is called. Sigh.

 

[Zaukrie]

You're 100% right. After quite a bit of trouble with the math (mostly making monsters too big a bag of HP with some hard-to-hit defenses) and action economy (not nearly formidable enough for the PCs), Monster Vault improved monster design immensely.

5e monsters are pretty boring by comparison. IMO, Monsters of the Multiverse is a step in the right direction, but it needs to be pushed further. Hopefully they'll step it up once more in the new MM.

I'm going thru dragon magazines from the 4e era..... And I'm reminded how innovative that edition felt. Especially monster design. Sigh.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

I think most of the confusion comes from folks insisting that this cannot be anything other than a new edition like we've seen before, and refusing to accept WotC's core premise. Or cynical ploys, like Kobold Press's blatant attempt to position themselves as the true guardians of 5e.

what is kobold press doing? are they keeping pre tasha's races and the classes form PHB 2014 as is and putting them out? if so what are they calling it?

 

[Remathilis]

what is kobold press doing? are they keeping pre tasha's races and the classes form PHB 2014 as is and putting them out? if so what are they calling it?

Hohoho, absolutely not. They are making their OWN One D&D with changes to the rules born out of necessity (much of the PHB is not in the SRD) and evolution (consolidated spells lists, ASI part of point buy, subclasses gained at the same level for every class, race, er heritage split into cultural and biological traits, etc).

It's called Black Flag and there are two playtest documents out in the wild.

 

[mamba]

It's called Black Flag and there are two playtest documents out in the wild.

Tales of the Valiant, Kickstarter next month I believe