D&D (2024) Predictions for the 2024 DMG?

[Nefermandias]

I think it is full of pure gold, but the organization is a mess. Room for improvement, and I think we are getting that.

Excluding Bastions, they didn't say anything about an optional systems chapter in the new DMG.

My only hope is that the book isn't just filled with player facing stuff.

Encounter building maths and magic items are the least interesting part imo.

 

[Parmandur]

Excluding Bastions, they didn't say anything about an optional systems chapter in the new DMG.

My only hope is that the book isn't just filled with player facing stuff.

Encounter building maths and magic items are the least interesting part imo.

I do think a lot of the optional variant rules and the tables from the 2014 DMG are not coming back. The magical items list is apparently much the same (needs to have everything from the 2014 list for backwards compatibility, plus there are like 18 new items), but it seems a lot of space is being sent on Adventure building and samples of that.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

My prediction for the 2024 DMG?

....no one will read it.


You're welcome!


(Or, to put it more plainly- a bunch of people will comment about it in the first six months. And then, after a year, people will start threads about things they wish were in 5e24, and someone will say "That's in the DMG!" and the cycle will continue.)

 

[deadman1204]

a bunch of poorly altered rules with minimal/zero proof reading, causing alot of confusion. People will inevitably say "but were supposed to rai so its ok that wizards cant use a spell checker".

 

[pemerton]

a bunch of poorly altered rules with minimal/zero proof reading, causing alot of confusion. People will inevitably say "but were supposed to rai so its ok that wizards cant use a spell checker".

Is this deliberately ironic?

 

[UngeheuerLich]

My prediction:
There will be a minor optional rule that makes the internet raging.

 

[beta-ray]

I memory-holed it too! I forgot they existed, and I thought they were a very cool idea at the time...

You probably just got distracted

 

[Xeviat]

Only seven people will actually read it.

… which is still seven more than read the 2014 DMG.

Should we do a poll? I read it cover to cover when I first got it.

 

[Distracted DM]

Should we do a poll? I read it cover to cover when I first got it.

It took me more than a year after I made the move to 5e (~2015) to actually decide to sit down and read it cover to cover. I think it was Dragon Talk that got me to do so? Perkins or Crawford talking about the useful stuff they'd put into it that a lot of people didn't see.