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:

 

[Parmandur]

The most important thing about the art of the new DMG is that somebody will get the last word.

The real guidance was the silly bickering we did along the way.

 

[Older Beholder]

The new art beautifully captures this new D&D, but I just want nothing to do with it.

(with the same pink/purple hair I poked fun at above)

If you make fun of people based on how they look, perhaps this new DnD wants nothing to do with you?

 

[mamba]

Okay dude ... I have no idea what image you're looking at but have at it.

the feeling is mutual

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Here’s another action piece from the same artist, with approximate line of sight analysis. I love how she’s still holding her beer!

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A giant open shaft in the middle of your bar just invites lawsuits.

 

[cbwjm]

Here’s another action piece from the same artist, with approximate line of sight analysis. I love how she’s still holding her beer!

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Some people may say different, but the fireplace is clearly looking past the fight.

 

[bedir than]

A giant open shaft in the middle of your bar just invites lawsuits.

And waiver forms signed upon entry

 

[mamba]

A giant open shaft in the middle of your bar just invites lawsuits.

I assume it is the one from Tales from the Yawning Portal and goes into the lore section

Yawning Portal

The Yawning Portal was an inn and tavern in the city of Waterdeep that was renowned for being the primary open route into Undermountain. A well within its walls led down into the first level of the vast dungeon complex. It was owned and run by the famous adventurer Durnan the...

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[Jahydin]

If you make fun of people based on how they look, perhaps this new DnD wants nothing to do with you?

Not what I was doing:

I loved every second of that transaction. Far cry from the stinky WotC stores I avoided like the plague back when I was in college!

It was showing recognition to why the characters were designed the way they are and how the players I encountered were super cool.

 

[TheSword]

Yikes the critics are out again in force.

Listening to folks with the artistic talent of a sugar-cube rant about how published artists are trash.

Talking down other people’s artistic endeavors has never been so fashionable.

Book looks fine. If it’s got even half as much art as the PHB I’ll be pleased.

 

[Distracted DM]

Just FYI y'all: