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The Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG [1] or DM's Guide; in some printings, the Dungeon Masters Guide or Dungeon Master Guide) is a book of rules for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The Dungeon Master's Guide contains rules concerning the arbitration and administration of a game, and is intended for use by the game's Dungeon Master. [2]
A Dungeon Master, using a gamemaster's screen, explaining a scenario to the players.. In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game, the Dungeon Master (DM) is the game organizer and participant in charge of creating the details and challenges of a given adventure, while maintaining a realistic continuity of events.
In 1979, Mike Carr, the general manager of TSR, Inc., the original publishers of the Dungeons & Dragons game, conceived the idea of a role-playing gamers club. Shortly after Frank Mentzer was hired in 1980 as one of the first full-time employees of TSR, Inc., he was assigned the task making a role-playing gamers club a commercial reality, which was officially called the Role Playing Game ...
The dungeon master's booklet provided the finer points of the rules, the monsters, and the treasure I'd be able to find after hard-fought battle". [25] Scott Taylor for Black Gate in 2014 listed the Mentzer edition Basic D&D Boxed Set by Larry Elmore as #2 in The Top 10 TSR Cover Paintings of All Time. [26]
The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set was revised in 1983 by Frank Mentzer, this time as Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules.Between 1983 and 1985, this system was expanded by Mentzer as a series of five boxed sets, including the Basic Rules, Expert Rules (supporting character levels 4 through 14), [1] Companion Rules (supporting levels 15 through 25), [2] Master Rules (supporting levels 26 ...
The 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide (2014) later provided the "Dawn War Deities" as a sample pantheon, an updated version of the main pantheon of 4th Edition. These updates included readjusting some of the alignments, because 5th Edition returned to the previous schema of nine alignments, as well as adding suggested cleric domains of the ...
The Dungeon Master's Guide II introduces Dungeon Masters to various types of people who enjoy the D&D game, and it explains what they enjoy. Examples include: Brilliant planner—A leader-type who is happiest when planning for the night's adventure; Cool guy—Player who likes to get cool powers and cool weapons
The Castle Guide is a rules supplement intended for the 2nd edition Dungeon Master's Guide which covers life in feudal lands, and how to build, run, siege, and defend castles. [1] Reviewer Keith H. Eisenbeis stated that it "contains all types of useful and needed information about almost every aspect of castle existence from construction to ...