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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9503577" data-attributes="member: 52734">Yeah, considering the DM-facing content we got in Xanathar's and Tasha's, the 2024 DMG feels like a major step backwards.&nbsp; It's slightly better organized, but feels more stripped down, like an overview instead of actual tools.&nbsp; It almost feels like they've thrown their hands up and said &quot;we know there's internet tools out there to do these various things so we're not going to bother to flesh them out here (and at the same time not point to or acknowledge which online tools to use).&quot;I mean, as an example the random dungeon generation tables were taken out, for no good reason I can think of.And while Greyhawk as a campaign setting is presented in brief in the book (and I do like what I see - the country summaries are really helpful), it doesn't even attempt to go into what sort of elements you should look at or build up if you wanted to make your own - or even expand upon in the presented example.&nbsp; It's like a &quot;show not tell&quot; presentation in a book that is otherwise appears aimed at teaching one to be a DM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9503577, member: 52734"] Yeah, considering the DM-facing content we got in Xanathar's and Tasha's, the 2024 DMG feels like a major step backwards. It's slightly better organized, but feels more stripped down, like an overview instead of actual tools. It almost feels like they've thrown their hands up and said "we know there's internet tools out there to do these various things so we're not going to bother to flesh them out here (and at the same time not point to or acknowledge which online tools to use)." I mean, as an example the random dungeon generation tables were taken out, for no good reason I can think of. And while Greyhawk as a campaign setting is presented in brief in the book (and I do like what I see - the country summaries are really helpful), it doesn't even attempt to go into what sort of elements you should look at or build up if you wanted to make your own - or even expand upon in the presented example. It's like a "show not tell" presentation in a book that is otherwise appears aimed at [I]teaching[/I] one to be a DM. [/QUOTE]

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