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Whether you're a new or experienced Dungeon Master, here's everything you need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party.
Weave Fantastic Adventures
Create thrilling adventures with this revised and expanded Dungeon Master’s Guide for fifth edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®. Inside this essential guide is everything new and experienced Dungeon Masters need to weave epic tales, build fantastical worlds, and inspire memorable moments for your party.
Key Features
- Intended for Dungeon Masters of all experience levels, this essential resource provides incredibly useful tools and advice for running your D&D game.
- Includes real-world examples of common pitfalls for Dungeon Masters, along with suggestions for how to handle them.
- 15 new, ready-to-use, reusable maps for homebrew adventures.
- Multiple handouts and resources for keeping track of campaigns.
- Presents Greyhawk as a customizable, ready-to-use campaign setting for Dungeon Masters. Set your adventures within Greyhawk or use it as a foundation for worlds you create.
- More than 400 new and improved treasures and magical items, including 18 brand new magical items.
- Contains rules for bastions, strongholds built and controlled by players. With crafting, base-building, and resource gathering, bastions are a fun between-session option for players.
- Easily find information on key D&D characters and locations with the Lore Glossary.
- Includes high resolution maps of Eastern Oerik from the Greyhawk setting, the city of Greyhawk, and its neighboring region.
A companion to the fifth edition Player's Handbook (2024) and Monster Manual (2025).
Build Your Bastion
Bastions are a creative playground for players and a shared storytelling space in your campaign. They belong to a player and represent a home, a stronghold, or a place of power that the character develops over the course of a campaign.
- Design and grow your Bastion as you level up with a choice of 6 Basic Facilities like the Bedroom, Courtyard, and Parlor and 29 Special Facilities like the Teleportation Circle, Barrack, Guildhall, and Pub.
- Explore more of your world with Bastion Orders that allow you to task facilities like the Library or Archive to research topics, threats, and organizations while your players handle bigger problems.
- Craft your own gear while you're away with the Workshop or Arcane Study and pick it up when you return.
- Prepare for big encounters by creating magical charms in the Reliquary, Sanctum, Observatory, and more that grant you helpful effects like contacting other planes and powerful healing magic.
- Protect your people from attacks by recruiting Lieutenants, Defenders, and monstrous creatures in your Barracks and Menagerie to defend your Bastion automatically.
A Hoard of Magic Items
Rain loot down on your players with over 400 magic items built for Foundry VTT using the new Activity and Enchantment systems.
- Make any item magical with a drag and drop using the enchantment system whether you're making a simple +1 weapon or a complex item like the Nine Lives Stealer. The enchantment system can automatically modify the item for you and can even add new Activities and Active Effects to the items your players already have.
- Rig traps with the new trap Items with built-in activities to scale their saves and damage for the level of your party.
- Bless your players with new Supernatural Blessings that can increase their ability scores, grant them new resistances, and boost their armor classes and saving throws.
- Charm anyone with temporary magical charms that grant fantastic boons like the ability to summon creatures, darkvision, and more.
- Cast spells directly from items without consuming spell slots, components, or requiring concentration.
- Use complex items simply with the Activity system that makes powerful items like the Staff of Power easy to use.
Greyhawk, an Expansive and Customizable Setting
Greyhawk is a D&D setting you can use as the backdrop for your campaign or as a model you can reference while creating your own setting.
- Immersive and beautiful maps for the Free City of Greyhawk, a regional map for the surrounding area, and a massive map of all of Eastern Oerik. All maps are available with and without labels.
- Explore the vast Free City of Greyhawk with narrative blocks for introducing areas and plenty of details for major locations.
- The Greyhawk Gazetteer covers the area surrounding Greyhawk, its rich history, important locations, and adventure opportunities for every area.
- A living world with detailed lore for its primary villains, ongoing conflicts, and important organizations and factions that can play into your campaign.
- Breakdown of the Gods of Greyhawk including their home planes, typical worshipers, and their important symbols.
The Full Book at Your Fingertips
The entirety of the book has been converted into beautiful custom journal entries which are dynamically linked and embedded to make finding information fast, easy, and beautiful. Easily share pages with your players, display images from the journals to everyone,- Read everything in 43 beautiful journal entries split across 432 pages.
- Sharing is caring so all of the text content is available for your players as well. You can even share high resolution art directly with your players from the Art Handouts journals!
- Learn Foundry VTT features as you go with Foundry Tips placed throughout the journals.
- Quick access to helpful lore with the Lore Glossary containing 73 unique pages breaking down important people and places.
- Start playing with 14 prepared Scenes that are perfect for your campaign like a Barrow Crypt, Dragon's Lair, Roadside Inn, Ship, or a Wizard's Tower. All of them are pre-configured with Walls and Scene Regions for quick navigation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will this content be available in multiple languages?
This content is English-only at this time.
Is this official D&D content?
Yes! You can read more about our exciting partnership with Wizards of the Coast for more details.
What is the refund policy for purchases of this product?
The Dungeon Master's Guide is a digital product which is installed on the computer where you host Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Once the module has been installed it is no longer eligible for refund. If the module has not yet been installed, you will be eligible for a refund up to 30 days from the date of purchase by contacting us at support@foundryvtt.com. If you have any clarifying questions about the features of this sourcebook please reach out to us before purchasing.
Does purchasing this content unlock it on D&D Beyond also?
No, the Foundry Virtual Tabletop editions of this premium D&D fifth edition content are not interchangeable with the digital books purchased on D&D Beyond.
Does this module include a PDF or physical copy of the book?
No, this module includes all of the content of the book converted for Foundry VTT including journal entries for all text and images in the book.
Does this module include everything in the book?
Everything in the Dungeon Master's Guide is included. There is some content, like spells and equipment from the Player's Handbook and creatures from the upcoming Monster Manual, which are not included and will require those modules for full functionality.
I have already pre-ordered this content on D&D Beyond or another platform, can I get it for free or at a discount?
Unfortunately that is not something we can offer. Our team incurs the cost of developing and optimizing this content specifically for Foundry Virtual Tabletop, so the Foundry VTT version of a product is not interchangeable with versions purchased elsewhere.
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