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:

 

[Oofta]

I guess we disagree about the positioning in the third dimension... If the Dragonborn is looking at the halfling, the halfling is not looking at the dragonborn because their faces are not facing each other. As I wrote earlier, the halfling would have to look much further to the left. Where is the Dragonborn looking in your interpretation?

So here is my interpretation of where everyone is looking (the Dragonborn is not even looking at the halfling, or at most they are with one eye....)

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And the positioning in 3d, with the gray rectangle being the building behind them, maybe more to the bottom right corner for the human and halfling, but you get the idea

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I don't really care about this, but I gotta say. WTF? The halfling is pointing with their wrist? You're totally ignoring that the image clearly has her looking to the side? And you still have to draw the lines crooked?

 

[mamba]

If you have your red line following the halflings finger instead of their knuckle, it goes directly into the Dragonborn's chin.

past the chin, but yes it would be a slightly different angle and match the human's eyes better

I also don't get why you think the Dragonborn isn't looking at the Halfling, when their snout it clearly pointed at their chest.

the eye on one side of the snout sees the halfling, the other has the snout in the way, in any case I said the dragonborn is more or less looking at the halfling, the halfling is not at all looking at the dragonborn however. For that we would have to mostly see the back of their head

 

[Belen]

Can I take a quick tanget to say how much I UTTERLY DESPISE the fact that "cartoon" is still used a pejorative about quality?

I love cartoons but there are certain ones I cannot watch because the art and style is awful like “Be Cool, Scooby doo.”

I should have used my first wording of tweenish but I was trying to be nicer.

I am sorry I hit a nerve.

 

[mamba]

I don't really care about this, but I gotta say. WTF? The halfling is pointing with their wrist? You're totally ignoring that the image clearly has her looking to the side? And you still have to draw the lines crooked?

it's more for emphasis that it goes past the dragonborn due to positioning. None of the lines are crooked

 

[MonsterEnvy]

past the chin, but yes it would be a slightly different angle and match the human's eyes better


the eye on one side of the snout sees the halfling, the other has the snout in the way, in any case I said the dragonborn is more or less looking at the halfling, the halfling is not at all looking at the dragonborn however. For that we would have to mostly see the back of their head

I really can’t understand how you can see what you see, your lines are just so off. Like the only way I can see your interpretation making sense is if you deliberately try to see that way instead of the way it’s clearly portrayed.

 

[Parmandur]

I really can’t understand how you can see what you see, your lines are just so off. Like the only way I can see your interpretation making sense is if you deliberately try to see that way instead of the way it’s clearly portrayed.

I literally cannot see how the picture can be looked at any way other than the Adventurers facing each other and arguing.

 

[mamba]

I really can’t understand how you can see what you see, your lines are just so off. Like the only way I can see your interpretation making sense is if you deliberately try to see that way instead of the way it’s clearly portrayed.

It's mostly based on where the dragonborn looks and where the halfling is looking. There is no way they are looking at each other the way their heads are turned and the halfling has to be in front of the dragonborn (from the viewers perspective).

 

[mamba]

I literally cannot see how the picture can be looked at any way other than the Adventurers facing each other and arguing.

and I can see no other way than what I see, to me it is impossible for the halfling to look at the dragonborn. The halfling is looking in about a 90 degree different direction from the dragonborn

 

[MonsterEnvy]

It's mostly based on where the dragonborn looks and where the halfling is looking. There is no way they are looking at each other the way their heads are turned and the halfling has to be in front of the dragonborn (from the viewers perspective).

The Dragonborn is partially in front of the Halfling. How can you not see that?

 

[mamba]

The Dragonborn is partially in front of the Halfling. How can you not see that?

I have no idea how you see that or how in that case the dragonborn can possibly be looking at the halfling without his face being turned to the left completely rather than basically facing us as it is now