This resonates with me because the Dungeon Master is the role where youre weaving stories.
And so our goal is to basically deliver or fulfill that promise.
Wyatt echoed his statement and elaborated more.
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And the way the chapter is structured is very much like the rules glossary in thePlayers Handbook.
And not all of these topics come up in every game, and thats another sort of important thing.
But these are all individually very important topics.
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So too will the guide help players craft their own original adventures and campaigns tailored to personal interests.
According to Wyatt, therell be an entire chapter focusing on thinking about the adventure from a narrative perspective.
The situation that the characters have to deal with?
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How youre gonna hook them in?
What are the encounters theyre gonna have along the way?
A campaign is a couple of adventures that youre stringing together.
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But fundamentally, what is the premise of the campaign?
What are the conflicts that are going to drive the adventures in the campaign?
Incredibly, as Perkins noted, this will be the first book to ever detail an entire campaign there.
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For those who dont know, Greyhawk was the first official published campaign setting forDungeons & Dragons.
I first discovered it in a product back in 1980 called theWorld of Greyhawk Fantasy World Setting.
And a very young me fell in love with it exactly because it was not at all intimidating.
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It was short, it left plenty of space for me as a DM to fill in the details.
That really resonated with me.
This is an old idea inD&D.
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That the DM doesnt have to be the only person whos inventing things in the world ofD&D.
To quote Perkins, In short, weve made it simpler.
So the 2014 DMGs and Counter Builder Advice was three pages long.
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Now its one page or close to one page.
The guidebook additionally includesfor the first time ever, somehowa full glossary of the games expansive lore.
Perkins also confirmed the book was accessible to younger generations, speaking from his own personal experience.
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Im very lucky to live with two Gen Z Dungeon Masters, he said.
My daughter and her girlfriend are important consultants for me.
They often joke about taking psychic damage if I read them passages from the first editionDungeon Masters Guide.
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Dungeon Masters Guide2024 will be available wherever books are sold this November 12.
Preorders are now available.
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