Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide (D&D Core Rulebook)
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- NIFTY RESOURCES FOR DUNGEON MASTERSWe've packed this book with incredibly useful tools and advice for Dungeon Masters of all levels. Make your game sessions special with over 400 total and 18 new magic items, practical solutions for common Dungeon Master pitfalls, and Greyhawk, a customizable premade campaign setting.
- WONDERFUL WORLDBUILDING INSPIRATIONIntroduce inspiring new mechanics into your game! Tinker away with revised rules for crafting magic items, creating NPCs, and more. Excite your party and keep them engaged between sessions with the new system for bastions, which are strongholds built and controlled by players.
- STUNNING ARTWORKDelight in spectacular artwork featuring new magic items, legendary D&D figures, cinematic fantasy landscapes, a double-sided poster map of the Greyhawk setting, and more!
- LEVEL UP YOUR DUNGEON MASTER EXPERIENCEWeve built useful handouts and resources to help you keep track of your campaigns and added a Lore Glossary that helps you easily find information about key D&D characters and locations.
- PART OF THE 2024 CORE COLLECTION1 of 3 revised Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks, the 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide is designed for use with the fifth edition 2024 Players Handbook and 2024 Monster Manual
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Excite your imagination with the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide, revised and expanded for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons! We’ve created this essential resource with wonderful world-building resources and real-world advice for your D&D sessions, such as how to accommodate missing players or address metagaming. Engage your players with fresh mechanics, including a revised magic item crafting system and rules for base building with bastions. Get lost in pages of spectacular new artwork, featuring new magic items and marvelous D&D landscapes. Enhance your experience with new quality-of-life improvements, including thoughtfully designed handouts and an alphabetized Lore Glossary. Whether you're a new or experienced Dungeon Master, here’s everything you need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party to enjoy.
Product Dimensions: 8.25 x 1 x 10.75 inches
Item Weight: 2.05 pounds
Item model number: D37100000
Manufacturer recommended age: 14 years and up
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Release date: November 12, 2024
Language: English
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Edition: 2024 Edition
I am very happy with this 5th edition much needed Dungeon Masters Guide Upgrade. I am totally in love with the cover showing Venger and Warduke from the Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon show from the 1980s. The cover is glossy like I like it. This is the best Dungeon Masters Guide cover ever (the worst ever cover award goes to the first edition Dungeon Masters Guide with a red Efreeti on it). Also great is the book is thick and heavy. It has quality paper and construction. Chapter one is the basics. It is very helpful for beginners in training to be a Dungeon Master. This tells you what you need to know, and answer your questions. This is the best Dungeon Masters Guide for a new Dungeon Masters to read what the game is about. It is really nice. Chapter 2 is actually running the game. This includes combat and exploration. Chapter 3 is a DMs toolbox for creating monsters , spells, magic items, and other things. I like the Hazard section which presents the effects of hazards such as poison gas, webs, and even contact with the river Styx. Seige equipment is a must have section. Chapter 3 also provides information on explosives and firearms which I love. There is also a great names table for your to roll for a NPCs first and last name. Very useful. I like how they presented traps! There is a description of each common trap, how it works, and how to disarm it. This is amazing useful detail in any game. Chapter 4 is creating an adventure. It provides tables you roll on to get an adventure statement that you would then use to create a scenario or whole adventure. This is great to have help in planning what your next module for the characters will be about. I think it is fun to obtain random rolled results and use my imagination to fill in a surrounding story. Chapter 5 is creating a campaign with the inclusion of an overview of the world of Greyhawk which was created by Gary Gyax. It was the first complete world for D and D (more fully developed in release over the Blackmore Campaign world created by Dave Arnenson). In the back of the book is a quality map of Greyhawk which is a very nice touch. Thank you Wizards of the Coast. Chapter 6 gives a great overview of the Outer planes which is very informative. It also explains the Blood War. The Inner planes, Demi-planes, and the Feywild are reviewed as well. My favorite plane, the Plane of Shadow (also called the Shadowfell) is presented. Chapter 7 is on treasure items. Each magical item has a full color picture! This is very useful to show your players. Even if a group of players plays an earlier version of Dungeons and Dragons ( I am a huge fan of 1st and second edition), having a picture for each magic item is just incredible.Chapter 8 includes Strongholds (Bastions) and their creation for player characters. Appendix A has a lore glossary which is great for looking up names of individuals and places to know what they are. This is a must have. Very nice is Appendix B displaying various maps for you to use. What would veteran Dungeon Masters like myself find useful? Useful things are the Urban and Wilderness Chase tables, Weather Table, Terrain and Encounter distance table. There is a section for creating magic items and spells that is very helpful. I also like the Sample Fear and Mental Stress Effects section. And again, I like the table on page 73 for Firearms, Futuristic Items, and Explosives which are great for encounters on another world. Page 93 has many tables on settlements to give population, defining traits, tavern names, and random shops. This is very useful, even you won’t know what the settlement will be like in a final version which is part of the fun. A negative part of the book is the drawing of “super cute” characters on some of the handouts. This really ruins the handouts to the point that I would not use them. If they had to do this, it would be nice to have one version with a cute character drawn on it, and another with realistic characters such as a dwarf or a dragon. Initiative is covered in this book. Really to add excitement and the chaos of the unknown, I have my players reroll initiative every round (as a group)! This way no one then know what to expect, even the Dungeon Master. This is an A plus Dungeon Masters Guide in giving beautiful artwork. But most of all, it provides all the useful tables to run your games in one book. This book reminds me of the first edition Dungeon Masters Guide by having soooo many useful tables and tips. This edition guide gives clarity and organization that is easy to understand. No stats in here for Venger or Warduke, guess we have to wait. Having a physical book in your hands is like nothing else.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2025 by Galaxy Soaring Man Galaxy Soaring Man
Edition: 2014 Edition
This D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide is truly a treasure trove for anyone who feels called to lead a game—and a little soul—on extraordinary quests. From the moment I cracked open the hardcover, I was impressed by its depth and wisdom: world-building insights, advice for crafting memorable NPCs, guidelines for running balanced encounters, and rich moral frameworks that invite meaningful storytelling. 💡 What I love most: Creative Inspiration – Endless lore, story hooks, and troublemaking ideas that spark imagination and conversation. Clarity and Confidence – Whether you're a brand-new DM or a seasoned storyteller, this guide gives you the tools to run smooth, exciting sessions that draw players in. Heart and Purpose – Beyond rules and mechanics, there’s a deeper invitation to guide others through stories that reflect hope, courage, redemption, and fellowship. As I read through the Guide, I couldn’t help but see parallels to life—and leadership—in Christ. Just like a Dungeon Master shepherds their party through challenges, Jesus guides us, sustains us in trials, and empowers us to face the unknown with wisdom and love. The unfolding adventures we shape echo His call to walk with integrity and courage in every “campaign” of life. If you’re considering this essential book, know that it delivers not only practical tools but also timeless inspiration—encouraging you to weave stories that resonate with truth, friendship, and purposeful leadership. Highly recommended for every DM who wants to lead their party—and their hearts—with boldness and grace. 🙌🎯🙏
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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2025 by Daily Faith Based Content
Edition: 2024 Edition
Perfect! 10/10
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2025 by julio garcia
Edition: 2014 Edition
Previously, I wrote a review for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeon Master's Guide for Dungeons and Dragons, and I useful I found it for writing novels. All of that applies to the 5th edition too, but more so. I much prefer this edition as a writing aid. Oh yes, I also find it useful for running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. This book is split into three main sections, each describing the responsibility of the Dungeon Master in the game. They are "Master of Worlds", "Master of Adventures" and "Master of Rules". The first is for creating the campaign world, the second is for creating the adventure, and the third is a list of rules to help the DM run the scenario, tweak situations to fit the campaign, and a section with advice on homebrewing elements. As a Dungeon Master, I find this book extremely helpful. I have several areas of it bookmarked for easier and quicker reference. One of them is the area for building encounters and managing random encounters. This helped break my previous conception of random encounters, which I picked up from video games. In video games, there is no point to a random encounter other to beatdown on the monsters for some droppable resource (Experience points, money, some form of loot). Then you move on. Not so in a Dungeons and Dragons session, where some groups play for 2-3 hours a week or even less. That can become tedious (as it sometimes happens in video games as well). This area of the book taught me how to make a random encounter more meaningful. There is a "Sylvan Forest" encounter table in here that I merged with another table in the Monster Manual to create the one for the area that my party is currently adventuring in. These "random" encounters provided the seed necessary to create events that are relevant to the here and now of the session. I also bookmarked the area that explains how to create maps for dungeons, settlements and wilderness, as well as adjudicating and describing what your players do in each. Because each area is different, different methods are used for each one. For instance, a dungeon is likely to be traversed room-by-room, as the player-characters check for traps and treasure. The wilderness, by contrast, is more likely to be a more general environment that does not involve the player-characters checking behind each tree or the top of each hill. Unless, of course, they are in a particular section of wilderness that doubles as a dungeon. Also, my players have done a lot of foraging recently so it is useful to have a table that enables me to quickly determine if they find something and how much they find. A third bookmark, of which I currently have seven in total, is a rule variant for chases. In Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, all creatures have a set movement speed, which makes chases deterministic and therefore less interesting. This area lists certain rules that can be used to add randomness to this otherwise pre-determined scenario, basically obstacles that both the pursuer and the quarry can run into, which can slow them down. There are also rules for determining when the chase begins, ends, or turns around and makes the hunter the hunted. Oh, I wish I had read this book cover-to-cover when I first started DMing. I thought I knew the rules well enough as a player and that I would do fine by imitating what our group's original DM did, but I didn't do fine. Not in the least. I have several embarrassing sessions under my belt, and this book could have prevented several of them. Particularly the Chase section; especially the Chase section. On another note, there is gorgeous art in this book. This review is mainly about the usefulness of the book for a Dungeon Master (and therefore also a novelist) but I have to mention the gorgeous art. You can see landscapes of everything from mountains and meadows to the Shadowfell or the Elemental Plane of Fire. You get portraits of an adventuring party consulting/drawing a map or in combat with a dragon. Most of the magic items listed in the treasure also get their own images along with their listing. Trickster Eric Novels gives "The Dungeon Master's Guide for D&D 5E" an A+
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Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2020 by BW