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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9107108" data-attributes="member: 18">This is why the DMG has been so roundly criticised, though. It's absolute trash. Easily and by far the worst DMG D&amp;D has ever had (note 4E, whatever else you think of it, had a pretty great DMG, and amazing DMG2, a couple of pages re: Sigil aside). Notably even Crawford criticised it, IIRC, which I don't think he's really ever done before re: a 5E product. Honestly it would have doomed new players playing 5E if it wasn't for the fact that Critical Role etc. got big, and essentially taught people how to DM at a very high level (one nearly impossible to fully emulate, but you can still learn from it) in a way that the DMG utterly failed to do.So I do hope 2024 is going to do a lot better in terms of making a DMG that's actually a DMG.I just hope people don't get so blinded that that minimum standard is passed that they become uncritical of the 2024 DMG.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9107108, member: 18"] This is why the DMG has been so roundly criticised, though. It's absolute trash. Easily and [I]by far[/I] the worst DMG D&D has ever had (note 4E, whatever else you think of it, had a pretty great DMG, and amazing DMG2, a couple of pages re: Sigil aside). Notably even Crawford criticised it, IIRC, which I don't think he's really ever done before re: a 5E product. Honestly it would have doomed new players playing 5E if it wasn't for the fact that Critical Role etc. got big, and essentially taught people how to DM at a very high level (one nearly impossible to fully emulate, but you can still learn from it) in a way that the DMG utterly failed to do. So I do hope 2024 is going to do a lot better in terms of making a DMG that's actually a DMG. I just hope people don't get so blinded that that minimum standard is passed that they become uncritical of the 2024 DMG. [/QUOTE]

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