Chris Perkins Dungeons & Dragons Gen Con interview
Summary As part of the celebration of Dungeons & Dragons' 50th anniversary, Wizards of the Coast is releasing three new core rulebooks, the 2024 Player's Handbook, the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, and the 2025 Monster Manual. Each book includes changes to the established lore, mechanics, and makes it easier for newcomers to jump into the game.
Chris Perkins Says This "Has Been An Opportunity To Do Some Things With The Dungeons Master's Guide I'd Always Wanted To Do" Which of the new core rulebooks was the most fun to work on and expand? So having that ability to solicit a bit more feedback to make sure that what we're telling people was being told in the best way possible. Other things that we wanted to do that we didn't have time for was more show not tell, just including some sample adventures and some samples. Not only tell you how you build a campaign, but show you how you build a campaign. So lots of things.
Alyssa was able to bring us a lot of comments on ways to make the DM advice more useful to DMs who struggle with Neurodivergence, in addition to just being a fantastic DM. So their advice was critical to giving us well-rounded feedback. Somebody mentioned in one of the questions , pricing information about magic items. Well, actually, that information is in the 2014 DMG. Most people don't even know it's there. So making that easier to find and making it clearer so that the experienced DM can just find it very quickly and not have to waste time.
Chris Perkins: Oh, my favorite thing is we're always hunting for new ways to engage the player. So we know players love to build characters. They love to collect dice, they love to have specific dice for specific characters. They've got these activities. Some players just create characters to create characters knowing they may never get to run them. It's an activity that they enjoy separate from the game.
You mentioned your love of monsters before. Do you have a favorite new monster in the Monster Manual? We also were told that a lot of our NPCs, which are by far and away the most used monsters, they kind of capped out around level eight. So giving DMs more ammunition in effect so that they can make those higher level adventures more interesting and more varied is certainly a huge goal. But also from a design point of view, it's a fun design challenge because high level does not necessarily mean more complex.
Chris Perkins: Oh God, there's so many. I'll just pick one at random. One of the key pieces of feedback we got on the Monster Manual concerned lair actions and regional effects of some of our more iconic monsters. A lot of dragons and high level monsters have these things. The problem is those lived outside of the stat blocks. Lair actions were kind of in the story text, but a lot of our DMs use Monster stat blocks off of D&D Beyond.
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