D&D 5E Have you actually read the 5e DMG?

[atanakar]

Seems like a lot of people are discovering all the fun additional and optional rules of the 5e DMG. A DM can really customize his game considerably. Have you read the 5e DMG attentively from cover to cover?

 

[Retreater]

I mean, I've read all the rules parts, but I'm not going to read every magic item description, etc.

 

[Zardnaar]

Not cover to cover as I skipped a lot of optional rules.

I haven't read it for a few years s a rules lawyer sometimes trips me up. Some rules I thought were optional aren't and vice versa.

 

[Charlaquin]

I voted cover to cover because I did sit down and go through each section in the DMG in the order they appeared. But there were portions in many sections that I skimmed.

 

[Charlaquin]

I voted cover to cover because I did sit down and go through each section in the DMG in the order they appeared. But there were portions in many sections that I skimmed.

 

[tetrasodium]

Yes but the optional rules are often lacking & in many cases massively imbalanced without gigantic rewrites of 5e due to missing supporting structures when a variant rule could have easily taken care of converting hat structure to the current 5e in a sentence or two. Look at the discussion regarding flanking facing & aoO's in this relevant thread as one example. Gritty realism screwing short/long rest class balance & doing the opposite of what it aims to do by turning magic items normally intended to be used sparingly across 6-8 encounter days into at will cantrips unless the GM starts rebuilding all kinds of stuff.

 

[prabe]

I started by looking for things, ended up reading the whole thing, just not in order (cover-to-cover).

 

[JeffB]

For 5E?
I've read mostly the optional rules/variants sections in the very back and utilize the magic item descriptions as needed,. The rest of it is not terribly good or all that useful for me. It's not as bad as the 3E DMG, but.....

The 4E DMG, I read cover to cover. 2E and 1E too, though it's been many moons.

 

[iserith]

Yes, cover to cover, and I was annoyed it didn't come out at the same time as the PHB so that I could think about how I was going to run the game with all of the material I needed.

 

[Don Durito]

Yes. 2 Stars.