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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7655520" data-attributes="member: 6677017">I appreciate your review. While I think I'll like the DMG in general (my copy hasn't arrived yet), it is nice to be forewarned about the absences and issues that are going to bug me, so I can be surprised by positive rather than negative aspects.As far as the Domains of Dread issue, that's good to know ahead of time so I can houserule it. I'll probably make the Feywild and Shadowfell similar to the Ethereal Plane. Ravenloft is actually in the "Deep Shadowfell", but domains of dread often border (or appear to border) the material planes they originated from. The good thing about that take is that it doesn't actually change anything--it just provides an alternate metaphysical explanation for the behind the scenes and difficult to prove truths of the multiverse. I tend to, as the DM, have an interpretation that is true in my campaigns, but the various characters in the worlds may or may not know the truth, and might have varying theories. I generally say that just about anything the core rules say about magic, the planes, the deities, etc, is *believed* by some significant faction of people. They may or may not actually be right.I think one thing in the background of the minds of those (like me) who aren't in the camp of thinking the DMG is absolutely awesomely amazing, is that we know about what we were expecting (based on design intent) and so we know how awesome *that* would have been if implemented.* For someone coming into it with less expectations, it would probably seem like a much bigger win. That having been said, I'm expecting to get most of the things I wanted most through the Unearthed Arcana articles over the course of the next several months. My annoyance is over how many of those months it is going to take to get exactly the materials I'm looking for and was hoping I would get this month.So for me, the core rulebooks aren't actually complete. The DMG has been split into the hardbound volume and trickling out web articles. It won't be complete for me until all of the content they were actually working on or intending to put in it up to a few months ago actually sees the light of day.I don't blame the designers, though. They had to make a lot hard choices about what to include, and had a lot more material they had worked on than would fit. Unlike in some editions and games, they actually intend to give us that material instead of letting it disappear into a desk of devouring somewhere. It's not really the Hacker's Guide it was originally intended to be. Frankly, I didn't think there would be enough space to do that and have the basic "how to be a DM" section, and they must have figured it out too and decided it needed to be a beginners guide rather than a guide for (already) expert DMs (as it was at one time envisioned).I guess I actually can't review the DMG until the articles finish giving us the material, as my disappointment over what is missing can be assuaged given the right articles.* Apologies for horrible sentence structure. I'm too lazy to rephrase it.</blockquote>

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