D&D (2024) The New DM Tools In The New Dungeon Master's Guide

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide contains a 'toolbox'. The DM's Toolbox is the third chapter in the book, presented as an alphabetical miscellany of varied things to help you prep or run a game.

Each entry is 1-2 pages long and includes things like creating monsters, fear and mental stress, chases, firearms and explosives, and traps. For example, it goes in depth into chases, with details about wilderness or urban chases.

Much of the topics were already in the 2014 DMG--albeit organized differently. Some new topics include character death, and more detailed look at alignment--and how actions determine alignment and not vice versa.

Also included is a big table of 'dungeon quirks'--why, then, and by whom was it built? Examples include made by giants (with everything being larger scale), built on top of a cloud, and so on.

There's plenty more stuff--environments, a settlement tracker (Chris Perkins and James Wyatt roll up a random settlement in the video), hazards, mob rules, marks of prestige (rewards like deeds, medals, or titles).

 

[Erich the Fuzzy]

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Why not fix the picture versus just add text?

I can sort of live with black-powder-style weapons in some D&D campaigns. But this looks like he's holding a pump shotgun, which means cartridge shells and a magazine. That's far past medieval and renaissance and right into early modern. Could they not have shown at least some kind of blunderbuss?

 

[Oofta]

I can sort of live with black-powder-style weapons in some D&D campaigns. But this looks like he's holding a pump shotgun, which means cartridge shells and a magazine. That's far past medieval and renaissance and right into early modern. Could they not have shown at least some kind of blunderbuss?

Until we get the book we don't know how they handle gunpowder and technology. I agree that it should have been a blunderbuss, but a lot of people would look at it and not know what it was. Heck, good chance the artist doesn't know what a blunderbuss was. It might be a pump action shotgun, or it could just have a wooden grip like a lot of long guns have.

 

[Stormonu]

I can sort of live with black-powder-style weapons in some D&D campaigns. But this looks like he's holding a pump shotgun, which means cartridge shells and a magazine. That's far past medieval and renaissance and right into early modern. Could they not have shown at least some kind of blunderbuss?

Considering Expedition to the Barrier Peaks contains futuristic LASER weapons, I see nothing wrong with depicting a Wild West looking shotgun, especially considering Myrlund is from the Wild West (a transfer character from the Boot Hill game).

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Ot maybe stop smuggling things to FR. See, spelljamming already exists for people who wants to cross over campaign settings.

With the current emphasis on the shared multiverse, there's zero need for them to keep cramming things into Realmspace.

Also, to heck with Exandria, give us Mentir Vale/Points of Light already.

Agreed, but in the Raven Queens case it's already too late.