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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- Chris Perkins and @ToddKenreck discus what you can expect from the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide for Dungeons & Dragons.
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Please make sure to include detailed information about downtime, professions (and tools), and travel!
Hopefully the tool proficiency rules from Xanathar's is included in the DMG.
@@KevinVideo For sure! But I feel like they could also expand the tools and professions way more
@@KevinVideo Hpefully not, Ive had enough of reprinting rules already found in other books
Maybe I missed it, but I hope they add a proper end of book index for quick lookup of the page of a particular information! That would make finding the actual info that is in the book much simpler.
it would be really nice to have all dm tools in one place. having to reach for different books, but having to remember which book has the info i want, is annoying.
Every time that I'm about to give up on the game they put Chris Perkins out there, and I finally feel like at least one person there actually gets DND.
Amen brother. I like Matt Mercer as much as the next person, but Chris is my guy. The dm's dm. My own role model and guy i look up to the most
Exactly
I do genuinely enjoy listening to him talk about the game.
@@purpleyeti705 yeah I have said that before. While Matt Mercer is a great DM, I would give anything to play at Chris Perkins table. I have been playing since 1984 and Perkins is definitely the DM I respect the most.
I promise you thats not a coincidence
I’d really love to see them show a scaffolded approach to prepping a session. Kind of like Sly Flourish’s “Lazy Dungeon Master” approach. That was a super helpful book for my own journey.
I love that book so much. It completely changed everything for me.
Right!? After reading the DMG, I was like, “Okay, cool. But how do I make a session?” It was a weird experience.
I can stress enough how much Sly Flourish improved my games... And some stuff is on creative commons, they could do something really cool
Yes yes yes yes
even as an experienced DM I love rereading Lazy Dungeon master and Lazy Dungeon master two! they can help so much
Hearing Chris talk always gives me this need of a new show with him DMing. I really miss Chris Perkins behind a DM screen!
A storytelling guide such as:
* 3 act structure or 5 act structure
* stories and arcs vs campaign
* character subplots
* campaign themes
* collaborative storytelling
* character driven plots vs story driven plots and how to run them.
The Fate Core system has a lot of great tools for storytelling, especially when combined with the act structures.
All the stuff we look at in writing and theater really needs to be in the dmg for sure. The rules are not as hard as people think when they start, it’s the plot management that most DMs struggle with fr
@@TheCBoysDotCom Agreed.
Like how to design a faction. How to plan sequential steps so initial antagonist is low level functionary who reports to more senior lieutenants of a bigger villian/influencer.
Make a city sure, but what makes it sing is how to conceptualise the different factions it may contain and where they are in opposition or alignment.
@@richardhealy That is a good one.
Love the fate core system. I also use pathfinders 2e Dm's guide to supplement my downtime activities
I like this approach of moving things around and making it more user friendly. I don't need a new edition, I just need a more refined version of what I already love, keep it up.
Some integrated bookmarks/ribbons would also be a nice upgrade.
No more than 3, as DMs already have enough on their minds.
In my experience, when you are researching quickly during gameplay, 3 is the optimal number.
PS all of the main reference books should have these 3 ribbons integrated imo: a black one, a red one, and perhaps a green one.
I can’t tell you how long I spent looking for the details of what to do when a player is stable but at 0 hit points and no way to bring that number up. What is the mechanic? How does someone gain a hit point?
@@Timetonut Page 198 of the Player's Handbook: A stable creature that isn't healed regains 1 hit point after 1d4 hours.
@@alienmagic so not in the DM guide also?
Thank god because as a new DM I’ve always been lost with the current DMG. I love DMing but I often have to rely on my more experienced players on helping me with DMing. I’m really excited about this new DMG
I have been DMing 5e since it was D&D Next and even I have barely used the 5e DMG for anything other than the random tables in it LOL! Its barely a guide for DM's, if at all.
@@JakAttack very true that’s why I’m glad that they are taking action to fix the DMG and make it better and easier for new and old DMs alike
Been DMing for 3 years now. Without being able to google to reference rules and ruling I'd be lost because nothing is where it feels like it should be in the DMG. Super glad they're doing this.
The current DMG is completely useless. Only good thing in it are the magic items and random treasure tables.
I've been DMing since 1998. The current 5e DMG is useful when you're an experienced DM who likes homebrew, because it starts with all that. For newer DMs or if you only run premade adventures, it's less helpful. This overhaul is necessary and good.
You know what would be great in dmg? An adventure. A 5 Page adventure with a starting village, a Quest giver, a 5 room dungeon.
I'm guessing that's the "surprise" in chapter 8 and the pull-out map
4e DMG has like an entire campaign setting
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Kind of like the adventure he legitimately mentioned would be in this updated DMG. Seems like your feedback was preempted.
@@Kaelyn91 he seemed to explain it more so as how to build one and what one should contain. But it could easily be in the form of an example adventure, which would be perfect if it also breaks down *why* it includes what it does in the adventure.
It sounds like they are trying to make it easier to run 5e, rather than change the rules. This is a great idea. It sounds like the book should be DMG Revised, or DMG 2024 edition, sort of like how Mongoose publishes date-named revisions like Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022.
Always said 5e traded ease of entry for players with veteran requirements for GMs. To run 5e, you need to have learned in 3e/pathfinder first...
@@federicocaravani3474 I'm not sure I agree. I started running with 5e, I'm still running in 5e 6 years later.
I really hope they include more tables, not just telling you to make your own. It would be better in an updated monster manual, or even just a publication on its own of nothing but tables for random encounters based on different environments, better random treasure tables, and the like. For someone like me who doesn't like to spend weeks designing things only for the players to go a different route, random encounter tables are invaluable, as are lists based on CR.
I oftentimes worry that the dnd team doesn't love dnd in the same way that my players and I do.
Then Chris shows up...
The creative team for D&D at WotC does, the mgt and execs at Hasbro? 😆🤣
Don’t 👏 Forget 👏 The 👏 Absolute 👏 Beginners
So many rulebooks read as if you already know the basics. Matt Colville’s videos taught me more in a few mins than I ever learned from any books.
One of the most important things that needs to be in the DMG is a chapter on encounter building, and not just combat encounter building but encounter in general. It needs info on building encounter in all three pillars of play. It also needs to talk about things like encounter goals, decision points, etc. that makes up the aspects of an encounter.
I really appreciate Chris' humility regarding the 2014 DMG not being a 10/10 product, and I'm very excited for the 2024 revision of all three core books!
I really wish to see Harvest Monster Parts Rules and Crafting and Selling of Magic Items Rules. In my opinion it's the big missing thing in 5e.
Well I mean, crafting magic items is in Xanathar's. Selling them is kind of a DM thing, you can't standardize it because of the differences in demand between campaigns, they might be worth a ton in a campaign where there isn't a lot of access to magic items or they might not be worth much in a huge city that has tons of magic crafters.
I do love the Kobold Press monster part harvesting stuff though.
What the bleep are you talking about?
@@ShadowmancerLord but, even with Xanathar is not so clear how sell it, is so abstrac. I thing it need be more concrete with the numbers, if you want a change it, change it, but for a new master is hard dont have numbers.
I personaly want every magic item has a gold coin cost, for have a system to build a treasure with more direccions, not only for sale or buy magic items.
Sounds like you have a fun group
@@SeiyaVenture On the DMs Guild, "Wraith Wright Productions" (search the phrase including parenthesis) did a fantastic piece of work about Equipment, Wealth and Magic Item distribution. It critically analyzes what's good/bad in Item and Wealth distrribution in the PHB+DMG+XGtE and suggests actual soluitions to occuring problems, numbers and examples for every step of the way. Think of a (multi-100-pages) scientific paper on the topic, but written in the accessible style of the PHB. I cannot recommend the _All Items Supplement Bundle_ enough to tackle your problem exactly. :)
The improvements to the forthcoming DMG sound great and exciting. For all you new DMs out there, jump in and just do it. I started playing DND 42 years ago when I was 16 and the home brew campaigns I came up with left a lot to be desired because I was learning as I went. I’ve gotten so much better at story arcs and incorporating player back stories. Chris Perkins’ description of the approach to making the DMG an easier- to-use guide is intended to do what all us veteran DMs want for the new generation of DMs- enjoying this amazing game and enjoying it a second time when you look back on it. My son started playing with me 10 years ago off and on in between sports. We’ve played with a group on Fridays for the past 6 years. He’s graduating from college in May and intends to keep playing. Have fun everyone!
I'm a fairly young DM. But Started playing towards the tail end of 4e. And have been DMing and playing all of 5e. I have social anxiety in my daily life, but love storytelling and wanting to share in the storytelling exprience with others, for some reason when it come to DND i mentally switch into taking on the role of the character. Or when DMing I would stress before the session but when the session start it like the opening of a theatre performance and I switch into performance mode acting in ways and using voices that i wouldn't every use in my daily life. I been taking this passion for the hobby to my local game store to help run adventure league for the players that come each week. But even with my anxieties when DM its like letting off of stress and let the voices in my head narrate the NPC and creature of the world so players can explore.
How about some actual crafting rules? I'd love to have one of those.
These two are always enjoyable and informative to watch
I am excited about the Monster Manual being bigger.
This is The BEST. O am really excited for this.
I really hope they include the random encounter tables in it like they had in the 2nd Ed Monsterous Compendiums. They had tables based on CR, or like 20 tables based on different environments, like artic forest, temperate forest, temperate grasslands, hills, mountains, underarm, urban, rural, everything, man. It was awesome. I ran entire campaigns that were born out of random encounters.
I used to spend hours and days and weeks drawing up whole worlds and castles and dungeons and campaigns, then the players wouldn't even visit like 90% of what I'd made. So I adjusted my style to create things that could be used in any part of the world and just move them to put them in their path and use random encounters to fill in the gaps.
I’m afraid their just going to package all the random books from 5e together and reprint it instead of new content
@@onappap yeah, there likely won’t be a lot of new monsters. Little useful tools like random encounter tables are a possibility though.
Ah yes. Sure! Cant wait! No..I lack faith in the new M.M regarding missingcdragons, as the dragon maniac out for consistency and WotC including more missing chromatics, gems and metallics thourough the editions ??? They will win me over if they include and flesh out say...dragon magazine 65's Richard Alan Lloyds missing Orange, Yellow ( with wings or it isnt a true dragon ) and Purple chromatics. Include the actual Purple dragon from 4e even or blend it with Lloyds, both breathe energy form of weapon and are neighbours to the Deep on which WotC seems to avoid calling purple. Not to forget the physical mighty Gray ex fang dragon and the Brown desert dragon which Imo replaced the 2e yellow dragon. Which is fine. The yellow coastal salt spewing one is much more unique. Not to forget the missing Gems: Ruby, Obsidian, Citrine, Diamond ( or Jasper, Turquise? ), Opal. For Metallics ( non ferrous ): Steel, Mercury, Mithral, Orium, Adamantine. Up the Three TRUE dragon rosters from 5 -> 10. Bam! I will be open to be pleasantly surprised though...
I really hope that the Monster Manual is arranged according to Creature Type and then alphabetically within that type. This is the easiest way to find the creatures you need to make an adventure. It is a lot harder to remember all the names of the indiviual monsters than it is to look up Undead that could be the minions of a Lich or the Order of the Emerald Claw.
I disagree. It's fine if you have played a lot and already know what the monsters types are. It's awful if you haven't and have no clue where in the book to look. Somethings like undead might make sense, but is a wraith in the undead section or the W section? I'd prefer just alphabetical.
I think the best organization principle would be challenge rating, but only if they fix challenge to make it a sufficient tool for balancing combat encounters. It’s way easier to follow an alphabetical index than a CR index, and CR has the potential to be the single most important thing for mechanical usage.
@@thebitterfig9903 While I was going to go with that, I think it might be odd having a CR 1/4 skeleton hundreds of pages away from a CR 1 skeleton, hundreds of pages away from a CR 3 skeleton. CR only works if every creature or variation of that creature has the same CR.
Strongly agree. In monsters of the multiverse I vehemently dislike that demons/devils/angels and creatures like that are completely scattered throughout the book away from each other. It is just bad for session planning
@@bradleyhurley6755 There's a difference between structuring the book, and also having good indices and gloassaries.
Using Creature type for structuring and session planning makes it easier to plan in advance and redues prep-work by a long shot. And an additional alphabetical index to find something specific helps immensily, looking something up on the fly.
I'd actually like to see the book being structured By Creature Type and Creature Group, like a humanoid chapter with a sub-area, that has Goblins (and Hobgoblins), one with Orcs, etc.
And then to have an alphabetical index and an additional one by challenge rating + Key-Feature-tagging to support the task of:
"I need to find a a CR2 creature that can impose a condition on the fly... Oh, let's take the stat-block from a ghast."
The thing that the DMG needs critically is a fundamental model of interaction at the table. I had to go to blogs and videos (like Matt Colville's video series) to get this.
Good ol’ 1st edition DMG “Example of Play” made all the early games I ran possible.
It sounds like they will try to create a framework for the idea, but the enormously value of Colville's ongoing series "Running the Game" has the ability to address the topics more throughly and in a much more dynamic and timely method.
BTW, for any DMs out there, new or not, Matt Colville's "Running the Game" series is an *invaluable* resource. Even after being a seasoned DM, I still found lots and lots of great advice and information.
You could easily add bonus actions and reaction to quite a few of the existing monster to make them correctly match their CR. The biggest issue with 5E monsters is that they are simply fodder for the PCs due to the action economy.
They've been doing that a bit in some recent books, like Monsters of the multiverse. I'm running ROTF and when using duergar, I noticed that, compared to their MM versions where they have to enlarge/reduce as an action, the MotM versions can do so as a bonus action. I wholly expect the revised MM to go in a similar direction.
Sounds like you arent doing the recommended adventuring day worth of challenges.
@@portsyde3466 YES! That's the exact kind of thing I'm talking about. Without, the monsters are frequently dead before they can even get a chance to use their abilities.
@@ANDELE3025 …how does it sound like that? Anyone who thinks monsters are too easy isn’t using the correct number of encounters? Oh…yeah. That actually tracks. To be fair, even the published adventures don’t usually follow those guidelines.
What I found with monsters is that often times their Hp is abysmal compared with their CR, they can do lots of things and dish out big damage, but a low initiative can mean the monster is not going to survive for more than 2 or 3 turns in total
My monsters always roll 10+CR rating = Initiative
@@ai.yeehaw Is a good solution
Yeah. There are almost no monsters in the Monster Manual that can reasonably kill a fully-rested party of the level that they're supposed to, using the encounter guidelines in the DMG. For example, 4 Ettins should be a deadly encounter for four level-8 characters. A typical 8th level party with average luck on the dice is going to take those Ettins down in three turns. Yet, even if each Ettin hits with every one of their attacks, it will take at least four rounds to drop every character. Realistically, it will take even longer. The only way this is truly a "deadly" encounter is if the players have already been roughed up a bit. The disparity is even greater when you're dealing with a single monster, which in this case should be CR 12. A party of four level-8 characters is going to destroy any CR 12 monster in the MM or MotM in one or two rounds. That monster may get a chance to take down a single character in that amount of time, but it's not likely.
@@daviddalrymple2284 I put my five level 8 players against a tweaked greater star spawn emissary, I gave it 450 Hp and nerfed the damage on the recharging ability, I kept everything the same, guess how much time it took for them to kill it? Party composed of a vengeance paladin, a sun soul monk, a beast barbarian, a rune knight warrior and a fey custom but not overpowered sorcerer. Four of them killed a young white dragon so they had the infused weapons by Fizban, but I gave the star spawn complete immunity to fire and ice until it took 350 points of damage, at that point its damage would increase whilst losing some defenses. Everything was over by turn four at the end of the second player in the initiative order.
@@ai.yeehaw yea this is how i do it too, keeps the flow going and focused on the players.
all good, but change the CR and Encounter Building system to make it easier and more intuitive (like 4e was e.g. four CR 1 monsters are a moderate challenge for 4 level 1 PC's, not the crazy system where it's like 4 CR 1/4 or whatever and it just doesn't add up easily for higher levels; baseline should be one foe per PC not a group of PC's dog-pile a single monster or two).
I'm going to take this chance to give a bit of advice to other DMs.
Between sessions ask the players what they collectively want to do next, this will give you a heads up when they want to skip town or ignore a dungeon or investigate that nothing that you can turn into a something. It also helps group cohesion IMO when the players agree on what they want to do.
Between sessions ask players individually what they want to achieve, what goals they have for their character. This can be a treasure trove of ideas and options for your players.
Reading through the manual and preparing to run Stars Without Number has opened my eyes to the tools that can be given to GMs. I would love to see a more fluid and helpful book in this iteration
The dungeon Masters guide for 5e is a PREP book. Lots of good ideas to prep for your game. There needs to be more stuff or even an entire section on kind of a “grab and go“ stuff. Tables and such that a GM can just use, without prep - a section dedicated to this type of improvisational insertion. There’s spattering’s of this type of material, but it needs to be centralized and separated. Separate the prep stuff from the improv stuff.😊
I think they should release more Setting books. An updated Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms book for example.
As a potential new player I'd also love to see Dark Sun ported to 5e but brand new unique settings would also be fantastic.
maybe a forgotten realms book that isn't focused on the sword coast?
I sense there is going to be a new Forgotten Realms setting book next year.
@@MonsterTeegs They already said Dark Sun isnt happening
@@MonsterTeegs As interesting as Dark Sun is, it´s never getting released in the world we live today, as people are seemingly too frail to deal with subjects like slavery or cannibalism.
I really want a robust, in depth, crafting system. One that takes into consideration what materials are used in the crafting, as well as different modifications that can be add to items.
Yeah, the current DMG does have lots of good stuff, but being from the start of the edition, there's plenty more to add/adjust, like the Tasha's stuff that they mentioned. Also, yes, the layout is...not ideal, lol. Making it more intuitive to find stuff would be a huge QOL improvement, especially when it's something you gotta stop and look up while playing, the faster the better. I'm hoping the secret chapter 8 is a huge compilation of variant/alternate/optional/homebrewish rules and ideas for us to look through, so we can really customize our games into something perfectly suited to our own specific table. That could be especially helpful for newer DM's just as a method of getting them to think about certain rules and things they may not have before.
It's always a delight to hear Chris . I look forward for the new books
Everything I am hearing in this is so wonderful. I am a somewhat new DM and this sounds so amazing. My favorite this is going to be the rule glossary for sure.
I hope they're basically renovating what they already have in place and try and make things easier to understand and actually listen. I really hope for a rewrite of the Tyranny of dragons.
I believe they have or are
There will be a rewrite of ToD. It's in the pipeline.
Ghost of dragon spear castle was my first big DM adventure. A year and a half run with a party of 5. It was amazing, shout out to Chris and team
Man I'm so thrilled by this video... I remember my first dnd 2nd edition, not being a DM since then and you made me really really like getting back to DMing!!!!
I'd like to see specific rules on making groups/swarms/packs, like a group of 30 or more soldiers, a large pack of wolves or goblins, without actually having to control/play 30+ creatures slowing a combat session. An expansion on the Dragonlance large scale battle/war rules, fighting against an army. Also maybe rules for play beyond level 20.
I agree, I wish there was a set template to apply to statblocks to make them into a swarm so that way you could turn a guard statblock into a legion in an army.
While there aren't set rules on swarms, every swarm I've seen adds the same damage resistances and condition immunities, the swarm trait as well as increasing the creature's strength and con scores by 4.
We need a Sword Coast / Forgotten Realms source book. I only just realised (as a fairly new player myself) that the D&D rulebooks dont actually talk about the Forgotten Realms much. Obliviously Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate are covered in their campaign books but if I want to set a homebrew in the Forgotten Realms at a wider-scope I'd have to cross-reference several books to get a overall view?
Agreed. I literally bought Dragon Heist and Descent Into Avernus for the gazetteers. The Sword Coast Adventurers guide does a fine job of giving plot hooks in its description of the area, but good grief do you have to do a lot of work to get it to the table; my group recently hex crawled from Evereska to Baldur’s Gate and that took far too much work on my part to make it happen.
Yeah, nothing better than listening to the group talk, interact, solve mysteries and plan. When the players take ownership of the game. So cool.
This is exactly right. You're doing your job right if you get to the point where you don't need to do much at all.
More monsters is always good, especially if they're going to hit their CR better.
I like the idea of having an introductory adventure in the DMG with maps, to help new DMs.
I'm looking forward to a better DMG
Awesome, thanks for the info.
I really appreciate all the changes discussed in this video and especially the insight into the process behind the original 5e DMG. I can't wait to see/hear more about those revised books.
I like a lot of what I’m hearing I am hoping for the best.
As a player and a DM, I am glad to hear you are buffing monsters up to make CR make more sense.
A higher level play it’s something I know a lot of people wanted further support for.
Great stuff! One of the things I want to see in the new DMG is one of the early promises of d&d next - adding shifts and gears to the rules. What kind of changes to the rules you need to do if you want to run a low magic campaign, or a horror story. Which spells you want to plan ahead for when creating a murder mystery. What type of extra rules you may need if you are aiming for a different fantasy theme - like steampunk. Stuff that can help you create your fantasy in d&d
The first adventure I played (includiug first character death) and then ran as a DM was the "Example Dungeon" from Holmes Basic Set. It was a great introduction to game play for the very young me in the late 1970s. There was no RUclips or internet to learn how to play back then. I'm glad to see game examples will be in the upcoming DMG for new (& old) game masters to learn from.
Im excited to get my hands on it. My favorite book to use to dm is the castle keepers guide for castles and crusades.
I really enjoyed this video. As a DM, I often have to dive into the DMG for a variety of things, and have little tabs with things written on them to make them easier to find. Loot tables, types of magic items, encounter info, etc. I love the idea that there will be a clearer and more structured approach to real-time-use issues that the DM can easily locate and refer to. It's hard when important information is scattered throughout the different books sometimes (although it can also be fun!), but the basics should all be in one, less complicated spot. I hope it's a massive tome! I look forward to it!
Name aside, I really hope they improve on encounter building. Also, can we get a campaign setting in Greyhawk? You guys dont want our money?
@@paulcoy9060 I mean, they're doing planescape this year; don't know if it's a boxed set or not, but it is coming.
I feel like they said something recently about giving Greyhawk another look and adjusting it before re-releasing it, because of some questionable content historically? Idk, I know I heard this somewhere...
If I recall correctly they don't have ownership of one of the major characters from Greyhawk
@@hoid9407 I mean, technically Saltmarsh by default takes place in Greyhawk, but I think that's the only 5e book that does so far. They also give options for other equivalent areas in faerun and other settings, so it isn't firmly in Greyhawk either.
I started DMing (and playing) for the first time in January and was blown away by how awful the DMG was. It was written, very obviously, for people who have already been playing DND for a while now. The index is also very incomplete, which sucks for newer players.
I'm glad to hear these things addressed in this video. Looking forward to the updated guide!!
That’s awesome. Definitely revised updated books would be great. Especially the monsters manual
I love the idea of the “flavors of fantasy“ section on page 38, but would like it expanded. Many entries have good examples, but the explanations focus mainly on surface subject matter easily found and not on the more valuable, deeper tropes and themes that really make the genre.
For example, swashbuckling is more than ships and rapiers; it focuses on quick wit, daring risks for riches and romance, and dramatic, flamboyant spectacle.
Wuxia is more than flying Chinese people. It concerns martial arts societal intrigue, the role of martial arts in the greater world, and self-cultivation to the extent that any “magic” is actually martial arts training, not traditional magic.
Anime tropes are separate, and from Japan, as is chanbara (sometimes called “samurai flicks”, though famous examples such as Lady Snowblood and Zatoichi are not about samurai). Chanbara explores the role of violence in a society usually where governing authority is either corrupt or absent.
Dude doing the interview smiling like the grinch killing me
Everything he mentions sounds like very solid improvements. Can´t wait. DnD One or whatever it´s gonna be called sooner or later sounds very good to me when it comes to rules and stuff.
Can we get some 15+ level content please
They know it's hard to make so they don't bother lol
I'm so stoked for this DMG! Can't wait
This sounds really great! The Lore Glossary? Great idea! I've played D&D for years, going all the way back to the 80s, but I didn't have access to all the stories and lore, especially from The Forgotten Realms (apropos name, since even the stuff I did know I've since forgotten!) As someone who owns the current DMG in DnDBeyond, it would be nice to get an "upgrade" price, but I'm not counting on that.
Lore glossary is a great idea! I look forward to pursuing it.
Very interested in what the included campaign will be!
I have a hell of a time with gods, big events, and famous locales that I have not played video games in. This format sounds awesome to just get blurbs about major things I can not grasp yet. After googling and reading wikis I end up understanding less and knowing where to start to learn about some of these things the book reading seems endless. I am always impressed by Matt Mercer and Spencer from Harmontown as they know so much and can rattle off gods and demons and the way things are but feel daunted in reaching one tenth of their level of understanding. I look forward to checking this out as Perkins has been a godsend.
You mentioned the monster manual. I think it would be helpful for a new player like myself to have quick reference tables that contain a list of all monsters contained in the book, but sorted according to different DM goals. For example sorted according to difficulty and the alphabetically. And another table that sorts and groups by type of damage resistance etc. I'm just throwing out examples. But it would be a useful guide to have as an appendix
This update will go on my shelf right next to my 4E D&D books, the ones that don't exist.
Can we please get better structure for buying and selling magic items?
Ditto on the maps! And all of this, loved reading through the 5e dmg but so excited the changes coming.
Stream line the random table section to allow for spontaneous 1 shots.
This would be amazing for “last minute” games as well as a framework for new DMs.
I’d be interested to see some statistics regarding how many DMs started their careers by dabbling in one shots and one page adventures.
Sounds so good, I can’t wait!
Looking forward to the update!
Will our dnd beyond digital books get updated with any new mechanical changes? (I don't expect the new DMG content for free...but I do sort of expect any mechanics to kept current.)
My biggest dream: Give me some balancing guidelines on Magic Items similar to the balancing guidelines for Monsters. There's 2-3 different ways to balance encounters with homebrew monsters with calculated CR's. I want something similar to know how +1 Plate rates as Rare when +1 Chainmail rates as Uncommon.
I’m excited for the lore part of the book that’s a great idea I got into dnd this last year
Restructuring the DMG is an amazing idea. I get tired of trying to find things that aren't where I think they are.
One thing I how gets addressed is creating monsters. I have been trying to use the system that's currently in place and it gets difficult to figure things out sometimes.
New Monster Manual! Yes! Are there going to be critters from Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse added in? Even if they aren't, I'm still looking forward to seeing what's new.
In addition some of the DM advice sprinkled in across various adventures such as ship combat in Ghosts of Saltmarsh or the utterly fantastic Piety system in Mythic Odyessy of Theros which is an applied faction reputation system would be great to see!
The faction reputation system in the DMG is: here is what being a 3rd level harper is called you need x reputation points to get to 4th level. Theros took that and turned it into here's how to get good with a god, what kind of miracles might you pray for, quest prompts for the kinds of stuff that God/faction/entity would want - and its so useful in a way that the lists of God's and their alignments in the PHB isn't - I'd love to see in the revised DMG some of that complexity in here's how to apply reputation/piety to a concept so that you can use it and be inspired to use it!
• *Magic. Item. Prices.*
• CR calculation rules that identify how to adjust the CRs of monsters to the magic items of the party. (We currently don't have much to go on in 5e to inform us of what a party that is a good match for a CR 26 creature looks like, or how to account for a party stacked with +3 items)
Magic item prices are already a thing in the DMG, near the magic items, one of the many things thats already in the game
Can’t wait for the new books! A super beginner DM here and just really excited to read more about the game!
I'm new to D&D and almost right away jumped into DMing - it's the role I was born to play in this game. It's exciting to hear that there are updates coming to the DMG, which I've struggled to get through beyond referencing as needed.
So, I am as brand new to the game as you can get. I am a middle school teacher who played once when I was 15 and now and the DM for two groups of 11 to 13 year olds. The most pressing problem is working through the myriad of rules for the different classes and races. It is really hard to keep track of abilities and how they should operate. Plus figuring out how the magic casters work has been a serious challenge. Honestly, RUclips what has helped the most in understanding the rules. What I could really use is the base information to be clearer and have more than one example on how it should work.
I regularly DM for 8-14 year old boys and honestly the issue is less about a gap in the tools and more that this is generally not the right game for that age group. The DM is meant to be an arbiter, but at a successful table the players are meant to be responsible for THEIR rules. We need to have conversations with the players outside the game to help them understand how their character and abilities work, but during the game we don’t have room in our heads for their whole character sheet. I often have adult players read spells or abilities to me at the table but when running a game for young kids, I have to keep the group small so that I CAN keep their whole character in mind and help them remember their abilities.
As someone who has every DMG since 1982 - I am greatly looking forward to seeing what the team is bringing to the table. A lifetime DM can never have enough tools in the arsenal. Rock on!
I've been able to scim through it. I'd love it if you included info on what DMs are expected to do and not do and how. I'm a new DM and I asked everyone in my session zero what their expectations for me were. There were crickets. They had no idea. I had to come up what I thought they should be based on issues I've seen at tables over the past four years or so. I just had someone drop out of my campaign because her expectations for me just weren't what I am responsible for. I'm going back and making edits to my rules/expectations. In my mind, the expectations are suppose to help us avoid conflict. You can't ever avoid all of them, but setting out expectations before you start really helps.
I hope there’s a section on solo play at long last…..
if you want to help dm's quickly find information, make the dmg electronic with a search/find function. such as a pdf....with bookmarks or an outline
You mean like D&D Beyond?
@@williambradford6575 just based on the table of contents, i would say not even close.
As mentioned in the video, the party might choose to do something entirely different from, what the DM planned.
I hope you'll consider adding a paragraph about the 'DM's Emergency Toolkit' into the DMG. This would include spezialized travel rules as well as suggestions to prepare a generic one-shot, a generic dungeon, random combat encounters etc.
Rules for specialized travel includes caravans (Hoard of the Dragon Queen), seafaring (Ghost of Saltmarch), wagon race/pursuit etc.
An emergency toolkit allows the inexperienced DM to improvise - even to prepare content in the opposite part of the continent or across the sea between sessions - if that's where the party chooses to go.
Maybe the DM adapts the plot to this new location - or events happen at the original location while they were gone - changing the conditions dramatically. An entire quest-line may become difficult or unavailable, because the party didn't interfere.
But with an emergency toolkit, the DM is never caught off guard, and the players might not even notice, as the DM rides the tsunami and get time to adapt - instead of being tossed around. And the players propably won't even notice.
Ooh exciting!
As a forever dm I can't wait to get this. Looking forward to a lot of the new features like the lore reference and even the beginner dm section. Always appreciate generic maps too. I hope you include a clear concise crafting system and better downtime rules. Also included in that magic item creation and pricing.
I'd love to see sample layman statblocks in the DMG, or perhaps in the monster manual in a section called "common folk".
Show me an artisan, a priest, a politician. Give me samples of people fill a city, as well as how that city is built.
Can I ask why a common folk would need a stat block?
@@stevenwaters591 primarily social interactions. Flat 10s for commoners is pretty dire. Players going shopping and haggle? I've got stats for the skill contest, or the perception check when the rogue tries to steal. It's small, but it's good for a DM not comfortable with improvising.
The Monster Manual has the commoner, priest, guard, noble. It's not too much trouble to give these higher ability scores, and different skills or tool proficiencies.
As a DM. I'm glad looking up information is easy in this upcoming DMG. Im glad session 0 exists because people who play my games i throw them into the campaign and see where it goes. Also im glad looking up info is gonna get easier cuz 80% of gameplay is referencing things and 20% is gameplay. I can't wait to pick this up to include in my current campaign.
More explanation for beginning D&D players & DM's....More focus on the fundamentals - Love it 👍
For the love of god please include a detailed section on wilderness travel, downtime, and random encounters. Also please bring back the dungeon and wilderness turns! Tired of having to go back to 1st and 2nd editions for rules that should have stayed in the DMG by now.
Suggestion for the Lore glossary :
"Earth : mostly harmless."
(source: Douglas Adams. This humor fits well in D&D considering ancient civilizations of real-life Earth would be deemed quite harmless for fantasy realms. None of their heroes can plane shift and, at best, they might reach their moon in many many centuries.)
nb : by the way, I am told Earth technically exist in the Forgotten Realms / multiverse (not to be confused with Oerth, which is the Grayhawk world).
Ironic as way back the Draconic Pantheon of FR deemed Earth a deadly universe ending disaster, with all dragons that went there either ended up in hiding before returning terribly changed or under Nulls (aka the deathwyrms) guidance (aka dead).
cool idea, might be copywright issues
@@ANDELE3025 Oh, did not know that. Earth seems to mostly have no lore in D&D and maybe, frankly, should not exist. :P
As player for a long time... I am incredibly excited by a larger font. Seriously though... sounds like a really good and well needed update.
Session prepping and a deeper section about exploration/travel are what I wish the new dmg improves on. Also a small section on heist adventure type?
Another thing that the old DMG lacks is some magic weapons for other archetypes. Therw are almost no magic bows, any crossbow between other examples. I think the worst problem is spread and variety (The same that wappened with PHB amount of subclasses and now is fixed or what your trying to do with monster types and CR spread)
I hope you include how to build magic item guide similar to 3E. I liked having a guide to where certain properties like vorpal was +5 and a magic item could have up to +10 total properties.
For the MM, grouping by families can still work, but an easy fix for an alphabetical search would be an index at the back of the book for quick reference. Most source books already have an appendix section. Adding an alphabetical list in that section with page numbers just makes sense.
For the monster manual: Perhaps group monsters by biome or in the monster descriptions put in tags for areas they're commonly found in. Definitely needs a table for what can be harvested. Could use more lore per monster.
I would love the MM to include some suggested treasure/ingredients. And like maybe oh to make a certain size of armor you need this many of that creature to make a set of armor for this size character. Everything is made out in gold. I'd love an actual crafting handbook. I have a few from different homebrew DMs but I'd love to see something pretty on my shelf. I love the thought of brewing potions and poisons and crafting armor, but it's all priced the same as store bought, plus you have to spend the time. There's absolutely no benefit to being able to craft items and such when you can just purchase it and have it ready to go.
Using a medieval Europe analog for my current dnd campaign setting and using the Celtic pantheon! 😃.
It would sure be nice if that mystery section was on crafting and pricing magic items in the kind of detail 3.5 used to have.
Watching this video makes me crave to become a DM, the changes I hear sound amazing specially the part of including lore about many important monsters, places, items, etc. I LOVE lore but it's hard to find some in the corebooks, lore can work wonders for immersion.
Hopefully they will include Alternate character designs Such as Gestalts, Tristalt ( taking three classes) Partial Gestalt( ( getting two classes at levels 2, 3, 4, 8,12,16.19.20) and Take Three System where players can choose between making characters wiith two species or two backgrounds)
I think one of the biggest challenges right now is how large the gulf is between the mechanics of D&D and expectations of the players. The DM basically has to fill that gulf right now. The DMs guide doesn't really help you become a story teller, a master improviser, how to balance encounters is a nightmare, and the information on how to structure a session is so dense. The world building is overwhelming and I'm glad they recognise that. I'd love to see the new guide take from other books which show flow charts for simple one shots, or campaigns, that can give a strong template to follow. Helping on board newer DMs really needs to be a focus for this next one. I think a section on how to run a one shot would be extremely valuable too, as all though in some ways it's more challenging than the next session of a campaign, it's far less daunting for new DMs. I'd strongly encourage that being a focus too.