D&D D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

“It's never been easier to become the Dungeon Master than with the revised 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Learn the craft from the experts in a cleverly crafted and accessible approach to running your own game. With more tools than ever before, becoming the master of your own multiverse will be a snap.”

• Release Date: November 12, 2024
  • Early access October 29 for US/Canada game stores

Links and information

• WotC reveals the confirmed release dates of 2024's D&D slate.
• WotC's Chris Perkins breaks the book down by chapter:
  • Chapter 1 -- Basic concepts
  • Chapter 2 -- Advice, common issues
  • Chapter 3 -- Rules cyclopedia
  • Chapter 4 -- Adventure building: including a template on how to build a single Adventure with at least one example
  • Chapter 5 -- Campaign building: including a template on how to build a Campaign from a string of Adventures, and a sample Campaign
  • Chapter 6 -- Cosmology
  • Chapter 7 -- Magic items
  • Chapter 8 -- 'A surprise': we have subsequently learned that the DMG has a full usable Setting, probably located here (this has been confirmed as being Greyhawk!)
  • Appendices -- maps, lore glossary, including a fold-out poster map
• Deborah Ann Woll and Matt Mercer consulted on the 2024 DMG.
  • Apparently another (unnamed) consultant provided advice on running game for kids.
• The new DMG contains a sample setting—Greyhawk!
• Includes a double sided poster map with the City of Greyhawk on one side and the Flanaess on the other.
• New Dungeon Master's Guide Cover Features Venger (From the D&D Cartoons)
• Alternate cover features Lolth!