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

 

[aco175]

I'm guessing the pull-out is a slipcover for one of the DM Screens you we all seem to have accumulated in the 5e era. Maybe we will get a new screen if you buy the bundle edition.

I'm for a new design and hope the DMG will provide more worth than just a section on items. I actually use the 4e DMG at least for the town chapter on Fallcrest.

The new MM will have new creatures for high level play. Seems like it is not worth buying for me since I do not get past 12-13 level and will likely be able to update the monsters I use from someplace online. That is not making me want to buy it just for some new art.

 

[Azzy]

It'll be interesting to see if anyone announces they intend to keep using the 2014 DMG.

We certainly have heard that some people don't like the MotM/2024 monster styles and that people are concerned about changes to player-facing content in the PHB, but are there people who are ride or die for the 2014 DMG?

I don't know if it's the worst DMG, but it certainly isn't the best.

Assuming I pick up the 2024 rulebooks, I can see still using bits of the old DMG depending on what the new DMG contains.

 

[overgeeked]

I don’t think there has ever been a DMG that really tells you how to DM. So that’s something.

But the most important bit was for the MM, and committing to changing, and I assume mostly boosting, the numbers to actually hit the monster CR.

The 4E DMGs did.

 

[Azzy]

I like the tables for customizing magic items. I've used those a lot.

So do I. They make magic items far more interesting.

 

[mamba]

It'll be interesting to see if anyone announces they intend to keep using the 2014 DMG.

I can pretty much announce that I will use the 2024 DMG and MM, not sure about PHB

 

[dave2008]

I think there is a possibility that 2024 DMG may be the book I am most interested in of the revised core.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Here’s to hoping the sample campaign is Mystara or Nentir Vale. Most likely FR. Because it’s (almost) always FR.

I’m honestly hoping the “surprise” chapter is Mike Shea putting the best of Return of the Lazy DM into the actual DMG. Or it’s Matt Mercer writing the chapter. I doubt Matt Colville would be interested at this point.

There is a great arguement it will be Greyhawk instead because this is the only space they are likely to be able to slip Greyhawk into, and among the designers there are Greyhawk fans.

 

[JEB]

Does anyone know how many monsters are in each of the previous Monster Manuals?

Monstrous Manual (2E) had over 600, which is probably the high-water mark to beat. Monster Manual 4E is probably next up, with 489 monsters (counting individual stat blocks, which I bet they're also doing for 2024 edition). Monster Manual 5E has over 400 stat blocks.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Not much was said about Cosmology chapter, but the cosmology has expanded a fair amount since the 2014 DMG. The Astral Plane being divided into Wildspace and Astral Sea, the return of Astral Domains, Domains of Delight in the Feywild, subcosmology contained within Crystal Spheres (Eberron and maybe Theros and Ravnica D&D versions). This Chapter might have the Pantheons too, maybe they will include Theros' Pantheon too.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Monstrous Manual (2E) had over 600, which is probably the high-water mark to beat. Monster Manual 4E is probably next up, with 489 monsters (counting individual stat blocks, which I bet they're also doing for 2024 edition). Monster Manual 5E has over 400 stat blocks.

Is Chris Perkins including NPC stat blocks in the "nearly 500 Monsters" count?