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:

 

[teitan]

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?

How would you portray the mind flayer using telepathy?

 

[Vaalingrade]

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?

I was going to make a joke because that was a secret, but... can other mindflayers 'hear' each other's telepathy?

 

[Greg Benage]

How would you portray the mind flayer using telepathy?

If the fire giant could demonstrate a bit less stoicism, I might have him react to what the mind flayer is communicating. On that note, perhaps we could also talk about the goofy dragonborn having a casual conversation with two people, neither of whom appears to be listening to a word he's saying. One of them is evidently distracted by something terrible out of the frame. None of them seem to notice the beholder lurking behind them...unless the beholder is actually the only one paying attention to the conversation?

Maybe this is illustrating how to resolve failed Perception checks.

 

[Clint_L]

Hurray for more of the D&D cartoon representation!

So, I'm glad for those who love it, but I hated that cartoon with a fiery passion and including art based on it actively dissuades me from buying the products. As in this case, where I'll just stick to the digital rather than buy the book. To me, it'll always be low quality, cheesy, quasi-D&D for kids.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Fireball Fungus! I can’t wait!

 

[Dalamar]

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?

Honestly, seems like a smart fire giant ruler. Makes sense to block your mind from being accessed when you know there's a mind flayer around.

 

[aco175]

The piece with the dragon looks like it was paint by numbers.

Coming Christmas 2025 you too can paint by numbers select pieces of art. I mean how else can they be a billion dollar company.

 

[Steampunkette]

looks at the battlemap in the bottom left corner

 

[Stormonu]

Those imgur pics that were posted ... is that 2nd to last one the Battle of Emerty (sp?) fields from Greyhawk? With the Temple of Elemental Evil in the background?

 

[Parmandur]

Those imgur pics that were posted ... is that 2nd to last one the Battle of Emerty (sp?) fields from Greyhawk? With the Temple of Elemental Evil in the background?

Quite certain that it is, yes.