Dungeon Master's Guide (2024)

Dungeon Master's Guide (2024). The Basics. What Does a DM Do?. Things You Need. Preparing a Session. How to Run a Session. Example of Play. Every DM Is Unique. Ensuring Fun for All. Running the Game. Know Your Players. Group Size. Multiple DMs. Narration. Resolving Outcomes. Running Social Interaction. Running Exploration. Running Combat. Character Advancement. DM's Toolbox. Alignment. Chases. Creating a Background. 1: Choose Abilities. 2: Choose a Feat. 3: Choose Skill Proficiencies. 4: Choose a Tool Proficiency. 5: Choose Equipment. Creating a Creature. Creating a Magic Item. Creating a Spell. Curses and Magical Contagions. Death. Doors. Dungeons. Environmental Effects. Fear and Mental Stress. Firearms and Explosives. Gods and Other Powers. Hazards. Marks of Prestige. Mobs. Nonplayer Characters. Poison. Renown. Settlements. Siege Equipment. Supernatural Gifts. Traps. Creating Adventures. Step-by-Step Adventures. Lay Out the Premise. Draw In the Players. Plan Encounters. Bring It to an End. Adventure Rewards. Adventure Examples. Creating Campaigns. Step-by-Step Campaigns. Your Campaign Journal. Campaign Premise. Campaign Start. Plan Adventures. Ending a Campaign. Greyhawk. Important Names. Greyhawk's Premise. Free City of Greyhawk. Greyhawk Gazetteer. Cosmology. The Planes. Planar Travel. Planar Adventuring. Tour of the Multiverse. Treasure. Treasure Themes. Coins. Trade Bars. Trade Goods. Gemstones. Art Objects. Magic Items. Magic Items A-Z. Random Magic Items. Bastions. Gaining a Bastion. Bastion Turns. Bastion Map. Basic Facilities. Special Facilities. Special Facility Descriptions. Bastion Events. Fall of a Bastion. Lore Glossary. Acererak. Adamantine. Alustriel Silverhand. Ashardalon. Baba Yaga. Bahamut. Baldur's Gate. Barovia. Bigby. Boo. Castle Ravenloft. Companions of the Hall, The. Company of Seven, The. Corellon. Delina. Diancastra. Drizzt Do'Urden. Elder Evils. Elminster. Euryale. Fallbacks, The. First World, The. Fizban. Great Modron March, The. Gruu...