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

[Arilyn]

Yes, but not that impressed. Felt rushed, with poor alternate rules.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Well, I would have liked an option between cover-to-cover and I read sections as needed, but I voted for the second option since it was closer.

I read most of it, skipping pretty much all of part 1 on world-building and half of part 2 since I am already good without reading that material. I started at chapter 5 and read all the rest.

I was actually really annoyed that the first 30% was IMO wasted space. I'm sure some people got value out of page 1-99, but not me.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Cover to cover twice. That's my standard procedure with a core book for a game I'm planning to spend a lot of time running.

 

[Nebulous]

I've never read the whole thing. The whole introduction about "building your own worlds" never appealed to since I've been running (and really liking) the premade 5e campaigns. I read over the optional rules; some were good, but many of them seemed poorly thought out or simplistic to the point of uselessness.

 

[Don Durito]

Well, I would have liked an option between cover-to-cover and I read sections as needed, but I voted for the second option since it was closer.

I read most of it, skipping pretty much all of part 1 on world-building and half of part 2 since I am already good without reading that material. I started at chapter 5 and read all the rest.

I was actually really annoyed that the first 30% was IMO wasted space. I'm sure some people got value out of page 1-99, but not me.

The core set has always largely been 2.5 books at most. (With the possible exception of 1e).

I think Castles and Crusades did the right thing by putting all their magic items in the monster book so that GM's book was entirely optional.

 

[Panda-s1]

I read it as a player 'cause I want to ruin d&d mwa ha haha 'cause at one point I was interested in running. idk why but the 3.5 dmg felt like getting a little salami as a treat while 5e just gives me the whole salami.

 

[Lidgar]

I mostly spent time using the tables to create random dungeons and feeling a bit cheated in that there is no random encounter table for city streets.

Then I pull out my 1e DMG and feel much better.

 

[Shiroiken]

I read it cover to cover, but not in order. I started looking at thing important to the type of campaign I was going to run, then went back and read everything else. Just like when I read the 1E DMG, the magic items are by far the most monotonous.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

I mostly spent time using the tables to create random dungeons and feeling a bit cheated in that there is no random encounter table for city streets.

There is one in there (can’t look up the page at the moment), but it is broken. It uses the d12+d8 method (which I like), but they forgot to weight the results—they are just in alphabetical order. Needless to say, that makes it useless unless you fix it.

 

[Don Durito]

I read it as a player 'cause I want to ruin d&d mwa ha haha 'cause at one point I was interested in running. idk why but the 3.5 dmg felt like getting a little salami as a treat while 5e just gives me the whole salami.

From memory (which may be wrong) the 3.0 one was pretty good while the 3.5 one was mostly a waste of paper.