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

 

[Gorck]

Those are big-ass dragons.

Don't get me wrong; this is superb art, among the best I've seen! But even if D&D dragons never were paragons of realism, the size of these guys is starting to stretch suspension of disbelief beyond critical point of rupture.

I assumed those were Chromatic Greatwyrms from Fizban’s

 

[Hussar]

More and more info releases and people who want to say it’s backwards compatible are just fooling themselves. Sure it sort of is but you massively benefit from just using the newer core.

“We readjusted all the monsters”. IE using the old MM monsters is outdated and subpar but sure you can use them.

I would rather hope that after ten years and a bazillion play hours, they just might have a slightly better grip on how monsters work in the game.

I’d be far more disappointed if they made the claim that they got everything right the first time around and nothing needs to change.

 

[dave2008]

Cheers, friend. I don’t think we’re so far apart on this.

Seems like it!

 

[dave2008]

I assumed those were Chromatic Greatwyrms from Fizban’s

They could be, but they are not the art they used for the Greaywyrms in Fizban's. Thay art has them being even more titanic (and elemental):

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it's new art.

I imagine they must be pretty far along with the MM art by now, since there isn't much mystery about the contents as far as what the art department needs to do.

 

[dave2008]

Yeah, it's new art.

I imagine they must be pretty far along with the MM art by now, since there isn't much mystery about the contents as far as what the art department needs to do.

If those two dragons are a preview of the new MM art - I'm all in for the art alone! I am really liking the tweaks to the dragon designs too.

 

[Parmandur]

If those two dragons are a preview of the new MM art - I'm all in for the art alone! I am really liking the tweaks to the dragon designs too.

Oh, no doubt they are going all out on the art for these. That maybe more exciting than any rules!

 

[Remathilis]

More and more info releases and people who want to say it’s backwards compatible are just fooling themselves. Sure it sort of is but you massively benefit from just using the newer core.

“We readjusted all the monsters”. IE using the old MM monsters is outdated and subpar but sure you can use them.

Sigh...

Backwards compatibility was never meant to mean "your old PHB is 100% the same as the new one." It meant "you know that monster we printed in that module several years ago? It's still viable using the newer rules without converting it."

 

[Parmandur]

Sigh...

Backwards compatibility was never meant to mean "your old PHB is 100% the same as the new one." It meant "you know that monster we printed in that module several years ago? It's still viable using the newer rules without converting it."

The beauty of exceptions based design: a group could go with the new PHB and DMG but inly use Monsters from 2014, or use only 2014 characters and spells and so on but switch to the 2024 MM, or mix qnd match which is what will ne common. We are already doing that, since they sneakily put 2024 rules in recently published books.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The beauty of exceptions based design: a group could go with the new PHB and DMG but inly use Monsters from 2014, or use only 2014 characters and spells and so on but switch to the 2024 MM, or mix qnd match which is what will ne common. We are already doing that, since they sneakily put 2024 rules in recently published books.

I suspect we will have a lot of people using the Level Up bestiary or the Kobold Press equivalent with no issues at all, other than a happy DM.