New Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Art and Details Revealed

The marketing cycle for the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is underway. Wizards of the Coast has released the first video and accompanying article previewing the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Wizards has already told fans what's actually in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, so there's not much in terms of actual new details. The video/article revealed that the Bastion system got another look from designers after its initial Unearthed Arcana playtest, that there will be a DM's Toolkit for everything from "alignment to traps," now arranged in alphabetical order, and that there will be 400 "new and improved" magic items.

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide will also be the home of rules for crafting magic items and a new Greyhawk campaign setting guide, with a focus on showcasing how Greyhawk can be customized or be used as a model for homemade campaign settings. Finally, the Dungeon Master's Guide will contain a lore glossary and a full chapter about D&D cosmology, the latter of which helps to drive home the idea of the D&D multiverse.


While much of this information was already known, the video and article did show off a LOT of new art, some of which can be found below:

 

[Distracted DM]

I haven't finished looking through my PHB yet, but for everyone talking about how everyone is too happy and there isn't enough grit.... maybe you should have clicked on the link to imjur? Cause, you know, there are more than six art pieces in the book.

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Some of those are quite solid, thank you for sharing them!

 

[teitan]

This art is terrible. The barbarian with a baby face. The rogue on the wagon that is stepping on a shelf that looks so out of place. The one of the city with the docks screams AI.

You are quick to call out AI, there are imperfections in it that show a hand, a human hand, executed that painting.

The art looks fantastic and I really like the new PHB so I will be picking this up next month some time or poking my wife to get it for me for XMas.

 

[teitan]

Another piece of art

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OH man this is awesome. I love it. While Erol Otus and guys like Stefan Poag and Peter Mullen are my favorite fantasy artists, these guys are really building on Elmore, PArkinson & Easley with a lot of life.

 

[teitan]

None of these are supposed to be AI because of WoTC's policy.

These days, the majority of art is created using computers, a graphic tablet and an electronic pen. It's all artificial but human-made. AHM Art.

And the tools used pull from AI now so digital artists are easy targets even if they don't intentionally use AI.

 

[teitan]

I like that Ringlerun picture, it looks like he's just activated the mayhem that's about to begin in this picture...

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<EDIT> Or is that Par-Salian, from Dragonlance ... his tabard's gold, not red like Ringlerun's above.

That's Ringy! Color is a bit different but that's been long identified as Ringy.

 

[Ancalagon]

This art is terrible. The barbarian with a baby face.

The really bad part about that piece is the skin tones and facial features are almost identical, this feels... lazy at best.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Anyway I understand that art is entirely subjective, but people outright hating on the new stuff which looks great to me I can barely understand.

From what I gather, a lot of it is portraying D&D as fun, wonderous and/or joyous being bad and wrong and also the overall paranoia tech bros have injected into literally all art discussion with their glorified chatbots.

 

[Greg Benage]

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Really cool piece, but... Why is the mind flayer whispering in the fire giant's ear? Doesn't he have, like, better options for discreet communication?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Really cool piece, but... Why is the mind flayer whispering in the fire giant's ear? Doesn't he have, like, better options for discreet communication?

The fire giant likes having his ears tickled by tentacles. Don't judge.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Really cool piece, but... Why is the mind flayer whispering in the fire giant's ear? Doesn't he have, like, better options for discreet communication?

He's sensing that big, big, juicy brain, and just can't help himself moving near, despite knowing there's no way he can currently get to it and feast.