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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 8874318" data-attributes="member: 6747251">To your first point, you know I love the Level Up Adventurer's Guide, but I really don't see WotC making a book that big.  They're going to want to keep the price down in a core book, which means they're going to want to keep the costs down.  I will be extremely surprised if the DMG for the new edition is even as big as the current one.  Online supplemental information of the sort you're asking for would be great though.to your second point, WotC has a great, very visible platform in DDB, and their status as the overwhelming juggernaut of the industry, and that should be enough for them to push online resources to help new DMs.  That and the (again) highly visible starter sets should set new DMs well on their way.To your third point, this is based on what you believe the DMG should be, which, as we've discussed, I don't agree with.  Even so, a new DM doesn't even have to buy the DMG if they don't want.  It hasn't been necessary to play the game since 1e.  What it does do is provide tools to make the game more like you want it to be, and while it can and should do that job better, that is the job I want it to do.</blockquote>