Dungeons & Dragons Reveals 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide Cover

The new cover features several classic Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon characters.

By Christian Hoffer

Wizards of the Coast has revealed the cover to the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Today, the Daily Mirror revealed a first look at the 2024 re-release of the Dungeon Master's Guide, which was re-written as part of Dungeons & Dragons' 50th anniversary. The cover features several characters from the 1980s D&D cartoon, with Venger and Warduke joined by Skylla (a character from the 1980s action figure line) with a dracolich lurking in the background and some skeletons lurking in the foreground. The back cover features a mind flayer citadel. You can see the cover down below: 

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The new Dungeon Master's Guide will be one of two "new" Core Rulebooks released for Dungeons & Dragons this year, along with the Player's Handbook. The Monster Manual, the third of D&D's core rulebooks will receive a revised version in early 2025. While all three books will continue to use Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition rules, many rules have been updated or revised.

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The Dungeon Master's Guide, for instance, has been vastly reorganized to allow for easier onboarding of new DMs and gives more examples on how to run both D&D sessions and campaigns. A section on campaign worldbuilding has also been included in the book, featuring the classic world of Greyhawk as an example of how to build a world within a campaign. 

Curiously, both the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master's Guide has leaned heavily into the characters featured during D&D's first expansion into toys and multimedia, with almost all of the characters featured on both covers having first appeared either as D&D toys or in the 1980s D&D cartoon. The Dungeons & Dragons brand has featured numerous references to these characters in recent years, with the characters re-entering D&D canon in 2021 as part of The Wild Beyond the Wildlight adventure.

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