New Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Art and Details Revealed

The marketing cycle for the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide is underway. Wizards of the Coast has released the first video and accompanying article previewing the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Wizards has already told fans what's actually in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, so there's not much in terms of actual new details. The video/article revealed that the Bastion system got another look from designers after its initial Unearthed Arcana playtest, that there will be a DM's Toolkit for everything from "alignment to traps," now arranged in alphabetical order, and that there will be 400 "new and improved" magic items.

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide will also be the home of rules for crafting magic items and a new Greyhawk campaign setting guide, with a focus on showcasing how Greyhawk can be customized or be used as a model for homemade campaign settings. Finally, the Dungeon Master's Guide will contain a lore glossary and a full chapter about D&D cosmology, the latter of which helps to drive home the idea of the D&D multiverse.


While much of this information was already known, the video and article did show off a LOT of new art, some of which can be found below:

 

[ezo]

Not going to lie, I'd actually pay extra to get a nice hardback version with no art.

If it made the book shorter, cheaper, or replaced the art work with valuable information? Yes, I agree.

 

[mamba]

The Dragonborn is partially in front of the Halfling. How can you not see that?

now you made me reverse lookup the image, and here is the full version

Tell me again how the dragonborn is in front of the halfling (or the halfling looking at the dragonborn)....

 

[Belen]

Not going to lie, I'd actually pay extra to get a nice hardback version with no art.

I agree. I only really need the content.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Quick poll: if you shout at your wife, and she is taller than you, do you keep eye contact or not?

Hearts-in-eyes smiley reaction to this post: yes

Surprised smiley reaction to this post: no

Also, I looked at A Paladin in Hell again, and the visor seems to be perfectly placed for keeping eye contact with the devil. Harder to say if the devil returns the favour, no pupils. Still, great work, Sutherland! Eye contact established.

After all, there IS lots of shouting in hell. See the first part of my post.

 

[mikeburke]

Maybe someone should reach out to the artist to ask them?

 

[Chaosmancer]

the eye on one side of the snout sees the halfling, the other has the snout in the way, in any case I said the dragonborn is more or less looking at the halfling, the halfling is not at all looking at the dragonborn however. For that we would have to mostly see the back of their head

So... like a lizard would? At this point it is more a fact that the Dragonborn has more of an oblong head-shape and not exactly forward facing eyes

 

[Chaosmancer]

now you made me reverse lookup the image, and here is the full version

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Tell me again how the dragonborn is in front of the halfling (or the halfling looking at the dragonborn)....

Ok, I'll tell you again that the Dragonborn is in front of the halfling. Their right leg (not the leg on the right side, but their right leg) is leading and would have them pass in front of the halfling. It isn't by much, but it is there. And since the halfling is twisting (far easier to see here" then it is even more obvious that they are looking and pointing at the dragonborn.

 

[mamba]

So... like a lizard would?

pretty much

Ok, I'll tell you again that the Dragonborn is in front of the halfling.

ha, wasn’t sure you would because to me getting the torso and other hand of the halfling make it absolutely clear that the halfling is in front of the dragonborn (from the viewers perspective), they basicallly walk / stand next to each other. But then that is how I always saw them, even when we did not have the torso yet.

There is no way any part of the dragonborn is in front of the halfling, except for maybe a toe / claw if their feet require clown shoes

And since the halfling is twisting (far easier to see here" then it is even more obvious that they are looking and pointing at the dragonborn.

you got to be joking, to me this makes it even clearer that it is impossible for the halfling to look or point at the dragonborn

 

[mamba]

Maybe someone should reach out to the artist to ask them?

that would settle what the intent was, it does not solve what the halfling is pointing at

If I wanted to take a picture of the Eiffel tower but have my thumb on the lens, it is still a picture of my thumb…

 

[MonsterEnvy]

you got to be joking, to me this makes it even clearer that it is impossible for the halfling to look or point at the dragonborn

No the full picture pretty much proves the opposite.