Dungeon Master's Guide 5e

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CREDITS D&D Lead Designers: Mike Mearls, jeremy Crawford Dungeon Master's Guide Leads: ·Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins ...

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 Unusual Environments The Dungeon Master How to Use This Book. Traps CHAPTER 6: BETWEEN ADVENTURES Kno ...

4 INTRODUCTION r T 'S GOOD TO BE THE DUNGEON MASTER! NOT ONLY d? y~u get to tell fantastic stories about heroes, v1llams, monste ...

PART 2: MASTER OF ADVENTURES Whether you write your own adventures or use published ones, expect to invest preparation time beyo ...

KNow YouR PLAYERS The success of a D&D game hinges on your ability to entertain the other players at the game table. Whereas ...

PART Master of Worlds • • ...

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OUR WORLD IS THE SETTING FOR YOUR CAMPAIGN, the place where adventures happen. Even if you use an existing setting, such as the ...

10 an everyday occurrence, as magical flying ships and trains carry travelers from one great city to another. Gods Inhabit the L ...

for example, might also be patron of magic and prophecy, while the god of Light could be the sun god and the god of time. A SAMP ...

12 The cult's ritual of initiation follows the pattern of its foundation myth. Neophytes retrace the god's footsteps in order to ...

FORCES AND PHILOSOPHIES Not all divine powers need to be derived from deities. In some campaigns, believers hold enough convicti ...

I Mapping Your Campaign When creating the world where your campaign takes place, you'll want a map. You can take one of two appr ...

Settlements The places where people live-bustling cities, prosperous towns, and tiny villages nestled among miles of farmland- h ...

To make a home base come alive, you'll need to invest some time fleshing out details, but the players can help you w ith that wo ...

_ lost settlements are agricultural villages, supporting themselves and nearby towns or cities with crops and meat. Villagers pr ...

18 often have considerable hereditary wealth). In exchange, they promise to protect their citizens from threats such as ore mara ...

each is ruled by a council of drow high priestesses who answer to Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders. Meritocracy. The most intel ...

20 electrum pieces are moons, gold pieces are dragons, and platinum coins are suns. The city's two local coins are the toal and ...