Dungeon Master's Guide II

Dungeon Master's Guide II

Cover of Dungeon Master's Guide II
Author Jesse Decker, David Noonan, Chris Thomasson, James Jacobs, Robin D. Laws
Genre Role-playing game
Publisher Wizards of the Coast
Publication date
June 2005
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 288
ISBN 0-7869-3687-8
OCLC 61176331

The Dungeon Master's Guide II is a book of rules for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons seminal fantasy role-playing game.

Contents

Like the Dungeon Master's Guide, this book focuses on providing Dungeon Masters with assistance in running the game. It provides advice on aspects of running the game as well as complex pregenerated characters (often using Prestige Classes).

Player types

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:

Publication history

The book was written by Jesse Decker, David Noonan, Chris Thomasson, James Jacobs, and Robin D. Laws, and was published in June 2005. Cover art is by Matt Cavotta, with interior art by Kalman Andrasofszky, Mitch Cotie, Ed Cox, Steve Ellis, Wayne England, Emily Fiegenschuh, Randy Gallegos, Brian Hagan, Ginger Kubic, Raven Mimura, William O'Connor, Michael Phillippi, Vinod Rams, Wayne Reynolds, Dan Scott, Ron Spencer, Arnie Swekel and Franz Vohwinkel.

David Noonan explained that while this book offers words of wisdom on how to manage a game—or even a whole campaign—more creatively, and broadens the scope of adventuring to include more city and campaign-based material, he "wanted this book to have something for players too. Thus, the DMG II contains more magic items, plus some new rules elements designed for players, such as teamwork benefits and PC organizations".[1]

This is the first Dungeon Master's Guide II to be published; however, it was followed by the Player's Handbook II.

Reception

The reviewer from Pyramid commented that: "The Dungeon Master's Guide II is a supplementary volume intended to make the referee's job easier, but it achieves only mixed results."[2]

References

  1. Carroll, Bart (June 6, 2005). "Product Spotlight: Dungeon Master's Guide II". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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