Dungeon Masters Guide II????

[lior_shapira]

Maybe the contents of the book could be good, some of it sounds interesting to me. But titling it the Dungeon Master's Guide II is such an obvious marketing ploy. It'll "seem" as if its a necessary core book which you can't do without. I bet if they would have called it something like "Dungeon Master's Quick Play Assistant" or whatever it would sell 1/2.

I dont know, I just dislike books where it looks like they're written to the requests of the marketing department

 

[Krug]

Yes, here's another 200+ page hardcover to help you prepare for your games!

 

[Li Shenron]

It doesn't sound a book about variants definitely. It sounds like a mix between (1) "how to design this" and (2) a collection of ready-to-use "this"

Does anyone remember the web enhancement which they say didn't make it into the DMG 3.5? The one about creating a town with tables for districts? Maybe it could be following that approach.

I am very fine if it provides help to make locations, towns, regions and entire continents. OTOH I have no interest for more rules about traps unless they actually drop the current way of writing about them and do something more flavorful (unlikely, but maybe the pre-generated ones could be good). Same with treasures, which I'm afraid they may be a waste of space.

 

[Turanil]

There is potential for a very useful book here. Now, either it is made well or not...

 

[fusangite]

Gee -- the things they describe being in the book are not high on my list. I think there is room for a DMG II but not if it's full of stuff like this. I don't need advice; I need more optional rules of difficult things. Instead, many of the things I would want to see in this book are being saved-up to go out in stand-alone supplements like the recent publication on adventuring in cold climes.

I think D&D could certainly use more sophisticated rules of desert adventuring, marine adventuring, adventuring in the cold, equestrian adventuring, etc. There are lost of environmental situations I run into that I don't feel like designing special D20 rules for -- but they aren't what is being marketed here.

 

[MerricB]

I think D&D could certainly use more sophisticated rules of desert adventuring, marine adventuring, adventuring in the cold, equestrian adventuring, etc. There are lost of environmental situations I run into that I don't feel like designing special D20 rules for -- but they aren't what is being marketed here.

Like Frostburn, Sandstorm and Maelstrom, perhaps?

Cheers!

 

[francisca]

Hey guys, for all of you in freak-out mode about this cheesy marketing ploy, here's a public service announcement: (cue cheesy music)

It will almost certainly be reviewed, right here, on this site, by somebody. Wait for the review. Wait for the rebuttals to the review. Wait for a second review from here, or another site. Flip through it at the bookstore.

Then decide if you think you might want it. There is no secret conspiracy to deprive you of your cash and shelfspace. (Wizards has Magic:The Gathering for that....)

Repeat: Jack-booted thugs with "Haze Bros." badges are not going to storm your house and hold your kids, roomates, pets, pokemon cards, or your significant other hostage until you buy it.

 

[green slime]

Like Frostburn, Sandstorm and Maelstrom, perhaps?

Cheers!

Except.... they could be made available in a more compact format, rather than spread about and packed together with crap for which I have no need whatsoever?

 

[Li Shenron]

Like Frostburn, Sandstorm and Maelstrom, perhaps?

It would have been great to have expanded rules for all environments in a single book. I haven't seen FB yet, but I can imagine that more than half is about player's material: seems to me that WotC is now publishing books for both players and DMs, but for gamers it would be best IMHO that they were separate. A single book with coldland, desert, aquatic and possibly underground, forest/jungle and marsh/swamp advanced rules (about hazards, dangers, etc...) with climate-specific equipment and a few monsters would be useful for hundreds of adventures; without feats, spells, magic items and prestige classes it would probably fit into a single 300p volume. But it'll be one book instead of the 3-5 WotC can instead sell this way...

 

[Mystery Man]

Except.... they could be made available in a more compact format, rather than spread about and packed together with crap for which I have no need whatsoever?

And of course we all know it's all about you?