D&D (2024) New Dungeon Master's Guide Cover Features Venger (From the D&D Cartoons)

The cover of the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide has been unveiled.... in the Mirror, a mainstream newspaper in the UK.

The cover art features villains (as opposed to the heroes on the Player's Handbook cover revealed last week), with skeletons in the foreground, the classic villains Skylla and Warduke in the mid ground, and then Venger from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon looming in the background, and right at the back lurks a dracolich.

The DMG will be released November 12th, 2024.

 

[Argyle King]

I'm curious if there's a reason why Dungeon Master wasn't wanted for the cover.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I'm curious if there's a reason why Dungeon Master wasn't wanted for the cover.

Listen, even Tom cruise has to have lifts in his shoes to get roles.

short men have it hard not just in hollywood

 

[Ghost2020]

Its OK. I get doing a montage of iconic NPCs, but (like the PHB cover) the execution falls flat IMO.

If they wanted to play on nostalgia, I wish they just did modern takes of the 1e covers to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

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Troll Lord already did the tribute covers and they're fantastic, for Castles & Crusades.

[edit] this was already mentioned. D'oh! Sorry for the repeat. Delete if possible.

 

[Queer Venger]

clearly we know which villain got hit with the ugly stick

 

[Zarithar]

To be honest, I've never really cared for the D&D cartoon. I actually found it rather lame. But I still like this cover quite a bit.

My opinion - this is entirely based on your age (physically or mentally) when you were first exposed to it. I was 11, so definitely the target demographic. That's why it resonates so much with me anyway. Yes... watching it again as an adult, it doesn't really hold up as well, but that's just the way of things. I have fond memories of it.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

My opinion - this is entirely based on your age (physically or mentally) when you were first exposed to it. I was 11, so definitely the target demographic. That's why it resonates so much with me anyway. Yes... watching it again as an adult, it doesn't really hold up as well, but that's just the way of things. I have fond memories of it.

100%

Even as a kid though, I knew cheese when I saw it. We were hitting people with morning stars in game, so it was sanitized even for a kid!

I have nostalgia for it thought.

I am more into Kelek and Warduke though!

 

[Nikosandros]

My opinion - this is entirely based on your age (physically or mentally) when you were first exposed to it. I was 11, so definitely the target demographic. That's why it resonates so much with me anyway. Yes... watching it again as an adult, it doesn't really hold up as well, but that's just the way of things. I have fond memories of it.

I was about 12 when it came out in Italy. I know that it is well liked, but I never appreciated it. As mentioned in a previous reply, the moralism was quite off-putting.

 

[niklinna]

It was super-duper lame, especially with all the intrusive moral editorializing that parental groups shoved in there. Eric deserved better.

Hm, that wasn't meant as a joke, but people are haha-ing it. Oh well!

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Did the cartoon get broadcast in Australia? I can't remember seeing it, but I was an ABC watcher.

I'm not enthusiastic about the DMG cover. Waiting to see that alt-cover. I liked the alt-cover for the new PHB.

I'm not sure it even was broadcast in Canada, but then I was like 3 years old when it came that series came out.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm curious if there's a reason why Dungeon Master wasn't wanted for the cover.

He is, in his true dracolich form.