D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

[FitzTheRuke]

Thanks! Interesting, playing coy with the names in Blackmoor...

Fair question? Any references to Dark Sun, Mystara, or other off the wall Settings in the Lore Glossary? (Or elsewhere)

I haven't found much mention of specific Settings (other than obviously Greyhawk), though all the Usual Suspects (NPCs, Like Drizzt, Minsc, the Cartoon Characters, the people who spells are named for, etc) are in there, and they mention where they're from, but there's not entries for each world. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but they're not in the Cosmology (that's for the Planes, and the Material Plane entry is shockingly brief) and they're not in the Lore (other than mentioned under people who live there).

 

[Parmandur]

Does it have anything about spell points as a variant rule?

Those are gone.

 

[GarrettKP]

Are the bastion rules any good?

They are very similar to the playtest. No more Bastion points (and the benefits that used points are gone) but most of the bastion rules carried over with some notable exceptions.

Now there’s a facility that can craft each type of magic item (Smithy for Armaments, Arcane Study for Arcane, etc.). Crafting a common or uncommon magic item can happen at level 9+ if you have the right facility.

Rare items can be found randomly in Maintenance turns but can’t be crafted. You can also now give orders from long distance with magic like Sending spells or stones.

Almost everything else is the same or very similar to the playtest rules.

 

[GarrettKP]

Dunno if you are just reporting something you saw or if you have it...any idea on the spread of Setting referents in the Lore Glossary?

I don’t have the full book. I have some screen shots from a friend of mine that was at MCM London and has sent me things from her book. I did not get a look at the Lore Glossary unfortunately. I focused on magic items, the sample adventures, Greyhawk as a setting, Bastions, and encounter building rules.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Does it have anything about spell points as a variant rule?

Not that I see, no.

What is Jallarzi Sallavarian’s species and class?

Lore Glossary says she's a Celestial Warlock, but weirdly omits her species.

Any changes from the rest of the Circle of Eight for species, class, etc?

I honestly can't say - I don't know them much before recently (I only started running Published Adventures with 4e & 5e, and I haven't read D&D books since Dragonlance in the 80's) so the information here is all I know, really - but they're all in the lore glossary, AFAICT.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t have the full book. I have some screen shots from a friend of mine that was at MCM London and has sent me things from her book. I did not get a look at the Lore Glossary unfortunately. I focused on magic items, the sample adventures, Greyhawk as a setting, Bastions, and encounter building rules.

So, regarding Greyhawk..any bits that jumped out at you in particular? It seems the Free City and the Flannaes each get about 11 pages of Gazateer material, any particularly cool hooks or notable bits and bons?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

For fun: whats the 3rd paragraph on page 217 about?

Scrolls, and who can read them.

 

[Azzy]

@FitzTheRuke You're doing Pelor's work. Thank you.

What's the GH gazetteer say about Shar and the Scarlet Brotherhood Order?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Exandria has had some serious WoTC support, so I'm not too surprised.

Mercer has a consulting credit on the DMG, so it's not too surprising!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@FitzTheRuke You're doing Pelor's work. Thank you.

What's the GH gazetteer say about Shar and the Scarlet Brotherhood Order?

"The Scarlet Order is a monastic order of Suloise militarists whose spies and assassins have infiltrated many courts and castles throughout the Flaneaess, ready to strike..."

It goes on for a few paragraphs on the Father of Obedience, etc.

The section on Shar says the the Scarlet Order founded the "Empire of Shar, which is closed to outsiders". And details the area they control.