Glad I noted the page numbers in my original post...
Loyalty: Measures NPC loyalty on a 0-20 scale. It's similar to the henchman rules you get in B/X, BECMI, or 1e.
Injury: There is a random table (of course) with injuries a PC can sustain in various circumstances - critical hit, 0 hp, failing a save by 5+.
Morale: In various circumstances the monsters make a Wisdom save or flee/surrender. It's not very good, IMO. I'd rather use the morale from 2e or earlier editions.
The 5e DMG scavenged the good bits from earlier editions. If you own them, much of the information isn't new but at least it's all in one book. If you don't, you don't need to buy them.
EDIT: Many of the variant rules read like Dragon Magazine articles that added little options here and there.
Loyalty: Measures NPC loyalty on a 0-20 scale. It's similar to the henchman rules you get in B/X, BECMI, or 1e.
Injury: There is a random table (of course) with injuries a PC can sustain in various circumstances - critical hit, 0 hp, failing a save by 5+.
Morale: In various circumstances the monsters make a Wisdom save or flee/surrender. It's not very good, IMO. I'd rather use the morale from 2e or earlier editions.
The 5e DMG scavenged the good bits from earlier editions. If you own them, much of the information isn't new but at least it's all in one book. If you don't, you don't need to buy them.
EDIT: Many of the variant rules read like Dragon Magazine articles that added little options here and there.
D'angelo Russell
Dec 12, 2014 Dec 15 – Added io9 Review Dec 12 – Added Clever Move DMG Review Dec 11 – Added Kill Screen DMG Review Dec 5 – Added Geek Dad’s Rolling an Adventure Using the Dungeon Master’s Guide Part I and 2 new reviews from Tower of the Archmage and The Cool Ship. Here is an updated list of the reviews as they come in for the D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. I’ve bolded the reviews. Feb 20, 2020 5E Is 5e the Least-Challenging Edition of D&D? It looks like at low levels anyway, 4e characters are far more robust than any other edition (low levels being typically the most lethal). If we were to use the optional rules for flanking, multiclassing, feats, and a handful of other options in the DMG, along with a few house-rules.
D'arcy Carden
- Dmg 87 A covered pit is hidden near the center of the room. Timber covered with flagstones is rigged to fall when a creature walks on it, dropping the creature into a 10-foot-deep pit.
- I feel like the 4e DMG (and the 3e/3.5e DMG) are more rulebooks which give you a bunch of rules for stuff that isn't covered in their respective PHBs. It provides a lot of direct structure in a way that the 5e DMG.
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