D&D (2024) The New DM Tools In The New Dungeon Master's Guide

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide contains a 'toolbox'. The DM's Toolbox is the third chapter in the book, presented as an alphabetical miscellany of varied things to help you prep or run a game.

Each entry is 1-2 pages long and includes things like creating monsters, fear and mental stress, chases, firearms and explosives, and traps. For example, it goes in depth into chases, with details about wilderness or urban chases.

Much of the topics were already in the 2014 DMG--albeit organized differently. Some new topics include character death, and more detailed look at alignment--and how actions determine alignment and not vice versa.

Also included is a big table of 'dungeon quirks'--why, then, and by whom was it built? Examples include made by giants (with everything being larger scale), built on top of a cloud, and so on.

There's plenty more stuff--environments, a settlement tracker (Chris Perkins and James Wyatt roll up a random settlement in the video), hazards, mob rules, marks of prestige (rewards like deeds, medals, or titles).

 

[Parmandur]

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Why not fix the picture versus just add text?

The point of the picture is that the Dwarf is holding the gun wrong, why would they "fix" that, it was probavly in the art order...?

 

[Scribe]

They’re explicitly calling out that alignment changes based on actions. That’ll be another can of worms.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

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Why not fix the picture versus just add text?

Cause that is harder.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This sounds like a good chapter.

 

[Xeviat]

A lot of what they talked about here was in the 2014 DMG, albeit not in one place or easy to find.

Multiple content creators have admitted to never reading it.

 

[Osgood]

But, then you'd have gamers up in arms (no pun intended) that this is making light of people being shot.

It wouldn't particularly bother me, and I happen to know a gamer who did 8 years for committing manslaughter on her gamer husband with a deer rifle.

I hear you... I made the joke even though my favorite uncle took his own life with a shotgun several years ago. I envision that the dwarf was grasping the gun by the barrel, kinda like a spear, hands literally nowhere near the trigger.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I hear you... I made the joke even though my favorite uncle took his own life with a shotgun several years ago. I envision that the dwarf was grasping the gun by the barrel, kinda like a spear, hands literally nowhere near the trigger.

I would have a made the dwarf leading an epic charge against the troll using the riffle as a club!

 

[pukunui]

I hope they’ve improved the chase rules. The ones from 2014 were rubbish.

 

[tetrasodium]

There are some obviously glaring omissions already mentioned in this thread if those few examples are the sum total of the "toolkit" chapter this GM toolkit is looking fairly sparse. It sounds more like a "gift set" than a full blown "toolkit". Given that all of the PHB previews also came with DDB articles posting significant rules text & none of the DMG videos so far have it seems like going back a quarter babystep towards tradition & at least providing a list of the tools in the "toolkit" in a ddb article would be more than reasonable

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Multiple content creators have admitted to never reading it.

The content was not bad at all. Just scattered. And admitting to have never read it at all is quite embarassing. But this explains the quality of some content.