Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide: Roleplaying Game Core Rules, 4th Edition
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Author: Wizards RPG TeamBrand: Wizards of the Coast
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-06
ISBN: 0786948809
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Book Reviews of Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide: Roleplaying Game Core Rules, 4th Edition
Book Review: Hmmmm
Summary: 3 Stars
For a disclaimer and a little background please take a look at my review of the Players Handbook, it's OK, I can wait here...
Back now? Ok good. :)
Production and so on are as good as the PHB, so pretty good, still don't like the style of the artwork though. :)
The content however is, well, there is a lot there for novice DM's, an awful lot, but it's all 'fluff' some of the things that were covered with helpful tables under old editions, and I'm thinking here of settlement generation, are dismissed in a few paragraphs of generalised advice, some tables would have been nice.
Then again that seems to conflict with their 'the world is just the place between dungeons' feel that pervades this new edition.
The section on traps is nice, and very complete, an improvement on the old section, and thee system for resolving skill based encounters is interesting, if a little simplistic, again I get the feeling they expect you to resolve things by force.
The section on treasure however seems needlessly complicated, and again could REALLY benefit from a couple of extra tables rather than a less than handy thumbnail guide stuck in a paragraph.
I'm pretty certain the combat will play well, but then it does seem now to be the be all and end all of the game.
(I wonder if the adventures will come with pre programmed responses for the NPC's, labelled ABC.)
Frankly important for the treasure rules, and XP, but frankly not really 'crunchy' enough for the veterans among us.
(If I don't know how to make a game fun after 30 years I doubt this book will help)
Caveat. There are ALWAYS new tricks in storytelling to learn, there are a couple in here I hadn't really considered....
Good in parts
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