D&D (2024) Take A Closer Look At The 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide

Wizards of the Coast has just shared a video delving into the upcoming One D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide, due for release in 2024.

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Scroll down to post #4, below, for a more detailed text summary!

• Chapter 1 -- basic concepts
• Chapter 2 -- Advice, common issues
• Chapter 3 -- Rules cyclopedia
• Chapter 4 -- Adventure building
• Chapter 5 -- Campaign building
• Chapter 6 -- Cosmology
• Chapter 7 -- Magic items
• Chapter 8 -- 'A surprise'
• Appendices -- maps, lore glossary

 

[Parmandur]

So the secret chapter… how to build your own castle / run your own kingdom? I believe they wanted to include something like that and I am not seeing it in the other chapters

Chapter 2 or 3, I reckon. Same with exploration and downtime rules.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

So the secret chapter… how to build your own castle / run your own kingdom? I believe they wanted to include something like that and I am not seeing it in the other chapters

I was wondering where that went. Do we know it's in the 2024 DMG? As an endgame character option, it would be more natural, IMO, in the PHB.

 

[Laurefindel]

For the record, this is what came out ofnthe creator summit:

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Those are big-ass dragons.

Don't get me wrong; this is superb art, among the best I've seen! But even if D&D dragons never were paragons of realism, the size of these guys is starting to stretch suspension of disbelief beyond critical point of rupture.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

For the record, this is what came out ofnthe creator summit:

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OMG I love these so much!!! I need the other chromatics in this style so I can have them as a slideshow wallpaper for my computer!

 

[dave2008]

So... is that dragon art new? Is that gonna be the cover to the new DMG?

I hope they do a better job with optional rules inserts this time.

Also: Downtime. I'd like yet another revised pass at it (Xanathar's was much better, but the system still isn't there yet).

Also: Exploration. There's still gotta be a bit more going on here, IMO.

Finally: Are we going to get to playtest any of it? They told us we would, but with all the playtest delays, I'm starting to wonder.

They mentioned playtesting the MM & DMG for the first time after the delays, so I am guessing it is still in their plans

 

[Tutara]

I really hope the new DMG has plenty of systems that can be dropped in as required.

The tentatively-mooted Stronghold system, for example, but also systems that allow you to abstract travel without it boiling down to ‘ignore this if you have a ranger’, run a trial as social combat, or run a kingdom in a way that doesn’t reduce the players and DM to tears (hi, Kingmaker).

It would be great to have a chapter to accommodate various versions of ‘you started as a dungeon crawl, but now your players want to run a tavern’

 

[Incenjucar]

I really hope the new DMG has plenty of systems that can be dropped in as required.

The tentatively-mooted Stronghold system, for example, but also systems that allow you to abstract travel without it boiling down to ‘ignore this if you have a ranger’, run a trial as social combat, or run a kingdom in a way that doesn’t reduce the players and DM to tears (hi, Kingmaker).

It would be great to have a chapter to accommodate various versions of ‘you started as a dungeon crawl, but now your players want to run a tavern’

I would say that these would also make excellent material for a seperate book. The Big Book of Distractions for all those things your players do with rules that still respect their characters' abilities.

 

[dave2008]

For the record, this is what came out ofnthe creator summit:

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Interesting! I really like that black dragon too. It looks like dragons might be getting a little visual design "revision" as well.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Cubicle 7's upcoming d20 corebook has their travel system in it for sure and I wouldn't be surprised if it had more of that wishlist as well.

 

[Hurin70]

yes, we can agree on us having different attitudes towards what they said. Being critical is not the same as flat out refusing to believe what someone says however.

Requiring belief when that contradicts reality is being uncritical.

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