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.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Nerd Immersion discussing the DMG cover, with a bonus tidbit at the end, WotC is going to be giving out early copies of the 1D&D PHB to Youtubers next week so they can gave their content ready for early access launch in August. He doesn't know yet what will be covered by NDA and what he can show yet.

 

[Oofta]

You really won't know how to feel when it turns out he's reclined like Burt Reynolds on a bearskin rug.

Or Deadpool. 'Cause he did that.

Not the best quality, it was just a quick screen grab before they took down the preview. Hmm, better put it in a spoiler in case people want to be surprised when they open the new DMG to the center page.

Spoiler: DMG (2024) Centerfold

 

[GMforPowergamers]

You really won't know how to feel when it turns out he's reclined like Burt Reynolds on a bearskin rug.

Or Deadpool. 'Cause he did that.

yeah vecna on a owlbear rug

 

[Parmandur]

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.

This is the way.

 

[Parmandur]

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

Yeah, especially since they said they want it to be obvious which is which sitting on the tablez it is a curious question of what will be on the MM: obviously Monsters, but maybe more beastlike stuff like Owlbears a d trolls, less mastermind villainy...?

 

[Reynard]

Yeah, especially since they said they want it to be obvious which is which sitting on the tablez it is a curious question of what will be on the MM: obviously Monsters, but maybe more beastlike stuff like Owlbears a d trolls, less mastermind villainy...?

I am guessing at least one dragon.

 

[Cadence]

Yeah, especially since they said they want it to be obvious which is which sitting on the tablez it is a curious question of what will be on the MM: obviously Monsters, but maybe more beastlike stuff like Owlbears a d trolls, less mastermind villainy...?

Since the true monsters are people, I vote for whoever it was that nuked the OGL and those who refuse to make a Warlord or Psionic class.

 

[Parmandur]

I am guessing at least one dragon.

Red Dragon seems likely, I suppose. "Use lots of drafons" ertainly seems to be the order of the day.

Heck, the Monater Manual could reuse the lineup from the original 70's MM in a new array and be pretty effective

 

[Reynard]

Red Dragon seems likely, I suppose. "Use lots of drafons" ertainly seems to be the order of the day.

Heck, the Monater Manual could reuse the lineup from the original 70's MM in a new array and be pretty effective

I hope they use that chonkadonk from HAT.

 

[Stormonu]

Y'know, I'd just about kill for dust jackets of the 1E revised covers for all my 5E core books, whichever version they end up being.

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