This is different to the Dungeon Master's Guide of many earlier editions of the game, which placed rules adjudication at the start of the book. Part 3 describes the DM's role as an adjudicator of rules and the use of optional rules and variant rules. This contrasts with Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, which placed the magic items in the Player's Handbook. It includes rules on traps.Ĭhapter 6, Between Adventures, describes rules for downtime and recurring living expenses.Ĭhapter 7, Treasure, includes treasure tables and detailed list of magic items. It includes rules for creating balanced combat encounters and deploying random encounters.Ĭhapter 4, Creating Nonplayer Characters, describes the process of creating NPCs and villains with plausible motivations.Ĭhapter 5, Adventure Environments, advises on the construction of dungeons and wilderness encounters. location-based, event-based) and random tables to decide the plot of adventures. It consists of chapters 3 to 7.Ĭhapter 3, Creating Adventures, advises DMs on inventing D&D adventures, giving various types of adventures (e.g.
Part 2 details the creation of D&D adventures. Astral Plane, Inner Planes), with attempts made to syncretize the two worldviews. the Feywild, Shadowfell and Elemental Chaos) as well as the planes of the AD&D to D&D 3rd edition era (e.g. References are made to some of the planes from D&D 4th edition (e.g. It lists many options, including but not limited to the traditional Great Wheel planar layout. It details features like deities, maps, settlements, languages, organizations, magic, events, play style and and theme.Ĭhapter 2, Creating a Multiverse, describes D&D's planar cosmology. Part 1 consists of chapters 1 and 2.Ĭhapter 1, A World of Your Own, advises DMs on creating a world for their campaign to take place in. This contrasts with earlier Dungeon Master's Guide (3.5) (2003), which relegated worldbuilding to its fifth chapter and spent fewer pages on the topic. Part 1 defines worldbuilding, the DM's own personal campaign setting. The 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide is divided into three main sections.
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