Dungeons & Dragons - Dungeon Master's Guide (2024 Edition)

What's inside?This 384-page guide is intended for Dungeon Masters of all levels! 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. 2024 and BEYOND! The 2024 Core Rulebooks provide new options for players and DMs along with updates and improvements to the classes, mechanics, items, and monsters of fifth edition. All updates are being done with care to make sure anything from fifth edition will continue to be fully playable. The 2024 rules revisions are designed to be fully compatible with everything you’re playing today in fifth edition. In response to nearly a decade of fan feedback, the 2024 core rulebooks will offer players and DMs tons of new character options, spells, feats, monsters, items, and more in a fun, balanced, and accessible approach to playing DUNGEONS & DRAGONS.   Weave Fantastical AdventuresExcite your imagination with the D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024), 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. A New Game AwaitsEngage 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. Ready-made AdventureExplore the Greyhawk campaign setting as you improve your DM skills. This book presents Greyhawk as a customizable, ready-to-use campaign setting for Dungeon Masters. Set your adventures within Greyhawk or use it as a foundation for worlds you create. Jump Into Play with D&D BeyondPurchasing a digital copy of this book unlocks it for use in the D&D BEYOND compendium and toolset. D&D BEYOND is the official digital toolset for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. Create characters in minutes, play directly on your character sheets with digital dice, and prep less and play more with Dungeon Master tools like the Encounter Builder and Combat Tracker. Unlock Maps, D&D BEYOND's virtual tabletop, with a Master Tier subscription. Host game sessions on dozens of official maps, or make your own and use our player and monster tokens to take your gaming to the next level! New features: Intended for Dungeon Masters of all experience levels, providing useful tools and advice for running your D&D game. Includes real-world examples of common pitfalls for Dungeon Masters, along with suggestions for how to handle them. 15 new, ready-to-use, reusable maps for homebrew adventures. Multiple handouts and resources for keeping track of campaigns. Presents Greyhawk as a customizable, ready-to-use campaign setting for Dungeon Masters. Set your adventures within Greyhawk or use it as a foundation for worlds you create. More than 400 new and improved treasures and magical items, including 18 brand new magical items. Contains rules for bastions, strongholds built and controlled by players. With crafting, base-building, and resource gathering, bastions are a fun between-session option for players. Easily find information on key D&D characters and locations with the Lore Glossary. Includes a double-sided poster map depicting Eastern Oerik from the Greyhawk setting and the city of Greyhawk.