Handling Mobs (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 250). See running Theater of the Mind combat for more. Guidelines for running areas of effect using the "theater of the mind". An excellent set of tables to help you improvise damage from a falling bookcase to tumbling into a vortex into the elemental plane of fire.Īdjudicating Areas of Effect (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 249). Improvising Damage (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 249).
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Describes how to handle a monster's critical hit when using average damage a common question. Monsters and Critical Hits (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 248). Yes, "bloodied" exists in 5e! While it isn't a mechanical condition anymore, you can still describe a creature being bloodied and this section tells you how. Includes my favorite method of assigning an interesting in-world physical characteristic to monsters to help identify them.īloodied rule (Chapter 8, "Combat", "Tracking Monster Hit Points", pg 248). Tracking Monster Hit Points (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 247). Lots of options for tracking and recording initiative for new DMs. Tracking Initiative (Chapter 8, "Combat", pg 247). This section offers many different ways you can handle giving out inspiration, some of which you can use together. I often hear complaints about inspiration. Inspiration (Chapter 8, "Using Ability Scores", pg 240-241). Instead it shows DMs how to use these powerful tools to improvise situations in any given scene. A great section that goes beyond the basics of advantage and disadvantage. Looking to give your characters a nice powerful boost without a physical item? Epic boons are your answer.Īdvantage and Disadvantage (Chapter 8, "Using Ability Scores", pg 239). You can expand these further with the downtime activities in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.Įpic boons (Chapter 7, 231-232). Excellent additions to the downtime activities offered in the Player's Handbook.
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Mix it with the random trap generator on page 297.ĭowntime Activities (Chapter 6, pg 127-131). The core rules for building your own traps. Traps and damage (Chapter 5, "Traps", pg 121). Are the characters looking to buy a sailing ship or airship? This section has the basics covered. Brown molds, green slime, and webs all help fill dungeons with interesting terrain we might otherwise forget.Īirborne and Waterborne Vehicles (Chapter 5, "Unusual Environments", "The Sea", pg 118). How much gold should characters have if they start at a higher level? How many magic items in a high-magic campaign? This table has you covered.ĭungeon Hazards (Chapter 5, "Mapping a Dungeon", pg 105). Starting at Higher Levels (Chapter 1, "Tiers of Play", pg 38). This section actually offers excellent advice for running pointcrawls without ever using the term. Mapping a Wilderness (Chapter 5, pg 108). The imagery and iconography of the planes can teach the players a lot about what lurks outside of their known world. While not directly practical in most D&D campaigns, the flavor of the multiverse can fill in the details of many ancient tombs or wizard towers. Good advice buried in a worldbuilding section this section helps DMs recognize that the most important parts of a campaign are the parts surrounding the characters.Ĭhapter 2: Creating a Multiverse (pg 43-68). Start Small (Chapter 1, "Creating a Campaign", pg 25). Your own world may vary from this but it's useful to understand what a default world looks like in D&D and how it works with the default mechanics, spells, and magic items of the rest of the game. Useful to understand what a default D&D world looks like. Here are some of its most useful gems:Ĭore Assumptions (Chapter 1, "The Big Picture", pg 9). The DMG contains lots of useful advice for dungeon masters spread widely throughout the book. This puts adventure building ahead of worldbuilding and content about the outer planes useful information best left to the end of the book. Instead of reading it front to back, I suggest starting with part 2, followed by part 3, and then part 1. The organization of the Dungeon Master's Guide is puzzling and, I'd argue, not the best way to parse the job of being a dungeon master. Today we're going to look at some of the the Dungeon Master's Guide' hidden gems. The Dungeon Master's Guide is an under-appreciated and undervalued tome of useful information and tools for D&D Dungeon Masters. New to Sly Flourish? Start Here! Gems of the D&D Dungeon Master's Guide
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