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.

 

[overgeeked]

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Thanks. That's awesome.

 

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[teitan]

I've got the Zarak, Warduke and Elkhorn figures. Crossing my fingers for a Paraley/Melf. Maybe a Kelek and/or Ringlerun if those come out.

I'd buy a Strongheart, but I liked Xenk's figure better and got that instead.

Yeah, it's the LJN figures in the pictures lately that have had my interest, not so much the cartoon characters, though they too bring a smile to my face.

Strongheart is excellent. I am hoping they do some more for sure, Scylla is up their alley.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I cant tell you how much I agree

As soon as I saw the cover I was like, "I know someone on ENWorld who is going to be happy!"

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It way before my time, and I've only seen bits of the show. But having a cute callback with some flavor is better to me than just a generic baddie, even of the old painting was great.

I DID watch the show as a kid, but literally the only thing I remember from it is that some white version of Yoda was a Dungeon Master somehow and that Tiamat is at the end of a Rollercoaster. None of that means anything to me (both in that I'm not nostalgic for it and those memories make very little sense).

OTOH, I'm pretty excited by this cover, because in the last few years I've seen a lot of talk about these characters - I think it's a great idea to use established IP as much as possible and to hit people with a history lesson for the 50th Anniversary. To me, it doesn't matter one bit if any of us know who these characters are or not - presumably we can find out! Or make our own! That's what D&D is all about - finding stuff out that you didn't previously know, and making stuff up.

 

[Older Beholder]

Well, here you have the answer to the question of "What do we call this new-edition-not-new-edition?": This is red spine D&D. "What edition are you playing?" "Oh, I started with red spine D&D, so I just run that."

I like the idea of differentiating between the 2014 and the 2024 books as Black spine / Red spine
I wonder if that'll catch on.

 

[Vicar In A Tutu]

Cool cover, but looks more like the cover for a Monster Manual than a DM guide (IMHO).

 

[Hussar]

They used two of them in 2014 and in Out of the Abyss (they were Greyhawk villains first!). The bench isn't all that deep, although they could put Iuz on a 2024 cover.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but, I haven't the foggiest what Iuz looks like.

 

[teitan]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but, I haven't the foggiest what Iuz looks like.

 

[Hussar]

Heh. Now I remember. I actually did know what he looked like, but, generic bald dude didn't really stick in my mind.

But thanks.