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And since 5e leaves magic items at the DMs discretion you dont even need to worry about them.

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Since Ive been DMing for quite a few years now and I own the core rulebooks for 33.5e Ive read the 5e DMG contains advice on DMing and few player options, but those were in the 33.5 book too.

So, the question is, can I run 5e campaigns with 5e PHBMM and 33.5e DMG Edit: Thanks for the replies everyone I will by 5e DMG sometime in the future, but right now I dont think I need it.

We will try to run through some quick adventures with my group, to get the feeling.

After that, when they get to buying castles, towns, trade posts I will look into it again.

Once again, thank you everyone.

Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best level 1 DM 5 points 3 years ago You can, but you would miss a lot.

The 5e DMG is very good, it was a pleasant surprise for me after the disappointment 2e, 3e, and 4e DMGs were.

The books arent that expensive by the way if you buy them from the right place.

I suggest getting the book to have it for referencebalanced items but thats up to you.

The DMG has one part on worldbuilding short description of some of the planes.

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It has another part basically on treasure tables, magic items, encounter design (as in: how to put together fair encounters), but hey, use kobold fight club and treasure generators found online and you wont need most of it (also: take a look at what you can find in the SRD).

Furthermore, it contains mosnters lists per area (coastal, arctic, etc), monster list by CR, optional rules such as flanking, using hex instead of normal grid.

Basically, if you are known with the game and understand that 5e is made with the notion that gold is less important, and magic items less common (thus gold less important since you cant buy magic items at every street vendor), than you can easily do without the DMG.

Oh yeah, downtime activities are described (such as carousing or running a business, spreading rumours, trying to buy or sell magic items, etc), but this should not be a dealbreaker.

Same goes for the price of building stuff like a house, tradingpost, abbey, what have you.

But if you do a lot of monster and encounter building, the DMG is a must-have.

Also, the random treasure hoard tables are pretty neat, as are the list of magic items.

Fighter 1 point 3 years ago You can, the biggest issue youll run into is that all the standard magic items are contained in the DMG.

So if an adventure module says that, for example, a room contains a Robe of Useful Items you wont be able to determine how that functions exactly.

That aside, if youve been DMing extensively you can get along just fine without it.

You should be able to find the PDF online somewhere, if you can download that and read it from a laptop or tablet at the table, youll save yourself both hassle and money.

Encounters are balanced to different power-sets and different skill potentials.to the point that 3.XX permits outright buying magical items using specific formulas and a moderately-leveled character (such as level 3 or 4) having 10 to potentially multiple skills.

Etc, etc. In fact, almost no player options in the 3.XX DMG are applicable to 5e.

Hell, even flanking operates quite differently since it doesnt grant a flat bonus in 5e.it specifically grants advantage on the attack roll.

I would recommend that you begin with premade 5e modules, like the Adventurers League Expeditions that should be easily found online.

Then you can get a sense of how adventures run, how to balance encounters and design campaigns and shit like that.

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