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Something I only discovered recently in the 2014 book is the mob rules and rules for adjudicating how many enemies a spell hits if you aren't using minis and a grid. They aren't optional rules either, they're fully intended for standard use and they make running Theater of the Mind combats so much easier! The 2014 DMG's biggest problem bar none is organization, it actually has a lot of usable game info in it, you just have to look really hard to find it
Congrats on getting this out before the new DMG arrived it's a perfect nostalgic(?) look back to what we had before we get hit with a bredth of new advice and content.
10:28 if you're interested in worlds built like this you should definitely check out Runeterra from the league of legends lore. Want a celestial mountain Mount Targon, pirate ocean Bilgewater, vast desert Shurima, "heroic" kingdom Demacia, Steampunk/chempunk cities Piltover and Zaun. League may be saltier than the dead sea but it has a very well built setting and there's even a 5e campaign setting book for it now That's officially licensed.
I kept waiting for the last thing on the list to be "Play Fair and Have Fun" and then you said it by itself and I was so disappointed and then you went back and made it number 7 and I laughed so hard. Well played.
Given the circumstances around the 5e release as a whole, I wonder if the reason the 2014 DMG is so strange in its formatting, tempo, and target audience, is because they were explicitly trying to get back old / returning players, rather than nurturing newly acquired players in 4e or 5e.
As someone who does struggle a bit with coming up with like... more than one NPC per adventure, I do find that NPC traits section fairly useful in the same way you described the magic item trait tables- great ways to inspire myself on how to make what could be a fairly standard NPC and give them a little extra flavour.
you didn't tell us to (8) leave a comment, but I'd like to leave a comment anyway, because I appreciate the work you do for this channel and the insights you share 🏆
16:55 It seems to work backwards. The villain is trying to hunt down people who somehow wronged the vengeful god because the god offers a bounty, which is probably more than mere money. 17:40 I guess Saruman's method of taking over Rohan could be called "causing neglect"... I must agree one would be better off just pulling tarot cards at this point. 18:42 But then, everything changed when Air Elemental Nation attacked...
I don't expect you to get to this any time soon, but I'd encourage looking into the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide/GM Core. I still stand by my Pathfinder 1E Gamemastery Guide and it even helps when I have questions about my 5E games. Thanks for the video and all the work you do.
4th edition Dungeon Master's Guide*s* It's been a while since I read the first one, and I don't know if I ever read Dungeon Master's Guide 2 or just skimmed it, but I recall a Reddit post ages ago singing its praises, though I don't remember any of the given reasons. It just always sticks out in my head that 4EDMG2 is really really good even for other games and editions according to that Redditor.
Man don't knock using slander to advance the cause of a god of mayhem. Just ask the Nomadic Merchants of Elden Ring how effective slander by a servant of a god of chaos is. And by "ask", I mean watch an hour plus lore video about Shabriri and the Outer God of Frenzied Flame because holy crap, of all the plot points you're not going to get without poring over miscellaneous item descriptions and throwaway dialogue with a jeweller's loop and a fine-toothed comb, how thousands of Nomadic Merchants wound up entombed alive beneath the capital with the Three Fingers and how Shabriri committed the cardinal sin of slander and became the most hated man in the world is absolutely one of them.
Wait. Twitter DIDN'T have a followers-only feed??? How is it somehow WORSE than I thought?? Okay, I have an idea for how the villain enacting the vengeful will of a god could do it by bounty hunting. Maybe this god needs sacrifices, but the villain has a twisted moral compass. They don't want to sacrifice random civilians, so they take bounties and offer them up to their god because, in their mind, they're "bad people" who had prices on their heads anyway.
It did, but it wasn’t the default, and it also wasn’t chronological so they could still refresh it whenever you got bored, so you never got “caught up”
I can't believe Mike gaslit is about the new DMG being out. I had to check dndbeyond just to make sure it still wasn't out. I didn't expect something like this out of you. I thought you were better #supergatemike #dmggate #unsubscribe
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I did not by friend who is a DM found it really useful.
Thanks for posting this before the new version of the DMG came out, your timing is impeccable.
Wow Mike, great timing! The new DMG is coming out soon and you got this video out just in time!
This is exactly the type of video I needed to see in the lead up to the 2024 DMG coming out.
Something I only discovered recently in the 2014 book is the mob rules and rules for adjudicating how many enemies a spell hits if you aren't using minis and a grid. They aren't optional rules either, they're fully intended for standard use and they make running Theater of the Mind combats so much easier! The 2014 DMG's biggest problem bar none is organization, it actually has a lot of usable game info in it, you just have to look really hard to find it
Glad Blue Sky is working better for you! Seems like they learned at least one of the lessons about social media from Tumblr.
Congrats on getting this out before the new DMG arrived it's a perfect nostalgic(?) look back to what we had before we get hit with a bredth of new advice and content.
10:28 if you're interested in worlds built like this you should definitely check out Runeterra from the league of legends lore. Want a celestial mountain Mount Targon, pirate ocean Bilgewater, vast desert Shurima, "heroic" kingdom Demacia, Steampunk/chempunk cities Piltover and Zaun. League may be saltier than the dead sea but it has a very well built setting and there's even a 5e campaign setting book for it now That's officially licensed.
Excellent timing! I was hoping someone would make a video about the old DMG before the new one came out!
I kept waiting for the last thing on the list to be "Play Fair and Have Fun" and then you said it by itself and I was so disappointed and then you went back and made it number 7 and I laughed so hard. Well played.
Given the circumstances around the 5e release as a whole, I wonder if the reason the 2014 DMG is so strange in its formatting, tempo, and target audience, is because they were explicitly trying to get back old / returning players, rather than nurturing newly acquired players in 4e or 5e.
As someone who does struggle a bit with coming up with like... more than one NPC per adventure, I do find that NPC traits section fairly useful in the same way you described the magic item trait tables- great ways to inspire myself on how to make what could be a fairly standard NPC and give them a little extra flavour.
Loved the bit at the end. Reminded me of a Monty Python skit. If you've gotten to the end of the video you know which one I'm talking about.
you didn't tell us to (8) leave a comment, but I'd like to leave a comment anyway, because I appreciate the work you do for this channel and the insights you share 🏆
16:55 It seems to work backwards. The villain is trying to hunt down people who somehow wronged the vengeful god because the god offers a bounty, which is probably more than mere money.
17:40 I guess Saruman's method of taking over Rohan could be called "causing neglect"...
I must agree one would be better off just pulling tarot cards at this point.
18:42 But then, everything changed when Air Elemental Nation attacked...
I don't expect you to get to this any time soon, but I'd encourage looking into the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide/GM Core. I still stand by my Pathfinder 1E Gamemastery Guide and it even helps when I have questions about my 5E games. Thanks for the video and all the work you do.
I never bought 2014 DMG, thanks for getting this out before the new one came out and me getting it on DDB.
Oh man, this video sure makes me excited for the new DMG for 5.5 that WILL BE comING out some time SOON… I CANT WAIT until it RELEASES
lol 😉
Great video. Not sure the Game Master’s Book of… series by Jeff Ashworth is from Cubicle 7 in case anyone is looking for it.
Cool! Perfect timing before DMG 2024 came out 🎉
The joke at 22:27 made me cackle 🤣
4th edition Dungeon Master's Guide*s*
It's been a while since I read the first one, and I don't know if I ever read Dungeon Master's Guide 2 or just skimmed it, but I recall a Reddit post ages ago singing its praises, though I don't remember any of the given reasons. It just always sticks out in my head that 4EDMG2 is really really good even for other games and editions according to that Redditor.
Man don't knock using slander to advance the cause of a god of mayhem. Just ask the Nomadic Merchants of Elden Ring how effective slander by a servant of a god of chaos is.
And by "ask", I mean watch an hour plus lore video about Shabriri and the Outer God of Frenzied Flame because holy crap, of all the plot points you're not going to get without poring over miscellaneous item descriptions and throwaway dialogue with a jeweller's loop and a fine-toothed comb, how thousands of Nomadic Merchants wound up entombed alive beneath the capital with the Three Fingers and how Shabriri committed the cardinal sin of slander and became the most hated man in the world is absolutely one of them.
Wait. Twitter DIDN'T have a followers-only feed??? How is it somehow WORSE than I thought??
Okay, I have an idea for how the villain enacting the vengeful will of a god could do it by bounty hunting. Maybe this god needs sacrifices, but the villain has a twisted moral compass. They don't want to sacrifice random civilians, so they take bounties and offer them up to their god because, in their mind, they're "bad people" who had prices on their heads anyway.
It did, but it wasn’t the default, and it also wasn’t chronological so they could still refresh it whenever you got bored, so you never got “caught up”
Thank you for this video, my library has a D&D kit that includes the 2014 editions of books, and I doubt they'll be updated soon.
This is a good channel. I like Mike.
I wonder if you have done a video about Lancer (TTRPG build arround mechs), I think its art is really cool and its worldbuilding is interesting.
I can't believe Mike gaslit is about the new DMG being out. I had to check dndbeyond just to make sure it still wasn't out. I didn't expect something like this out of you. I thought you were better #supergatemike #dmggate #unsubscribe
I dunno Mike, that might be too many things for me to keep track of... What was it again?
It's still quite bad. This is a $50 book. Having 5 useful paragraphs and 5 useful tables is very unimpressive.