D&D (2024) New Dungeon Master's Guide Cover Features Venger (From the D&D Cartoons)

The cover of the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has been unveiled.... in the Mirror, a mainstream newspaper in the UK.

The cover art features villains (as opposed to the heroes on the Player's Handbook cover revealed last week), with skeletons in the foreground, the classic villains Skylla and Warduke in the mid ground, and then Venger from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon looming in the background, and right at the back lurks a dracolich.

The DMG will be released November 12th, 2024.

 

[Keldryn]

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On-topic: I like the DMG art. I'm in the target demographic for it, as I watched the cartoon as a kid before I started playing the game (1986). I wasn't a fan of any of the original 5e core covers, but I like these 2024 covers much better.

Having started with the Mentzer boxed sets, I always thought that the original 1E covers were ugly as sin. I actually had those versions as a kid! But I preferred the Easley covers (and still do).

Looking forward to seeing the alt cover for the DMG.

 

[Queer Venger]

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I love you Mr. Jacobson, thank you for finally giving us a cover worthy of my awesomeness!!

 

[Reynard]

Art threads have become my new favorite kind of threads. So illuminating.

 

[Mercador]

Any alternate cover?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Any alternate cover?

Last time, they released the preview a week or two later.

 

[darjr]

Any alternate cover?

Not yet. Soon.

 

[Quickleaf]

Ah, interesting, this relates to that D&D Direct news event from last year. Chris Perkins talked about Venger, Kelek, Warduke, and others being part of an adventure in the pipeline. In addition to the Venger story, there's a Red Wizards story that is "farther along in the outlining stage and coming for 2025."

 

[Dion D Ritter]

At least there are no black elves!

 

[Reynard]

I figure I should also say something positive: Venger is BadAss on that cover.

 

[Seramus]

"The back cover has an ancient Mind Flayer temple, with an adventuring party in the distance exploring this huge dungeon."

Needs a tiny Sven Vicke in the party.