Editing Dungeon Master's Guide (section)

===Reception===
The original ''Dungeon Masters Guide'' was reviewed by [[Don Turnbull (game designer)|Don Turnbull]] in issue #16 of the magazine ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' (December 1979/January 1980). Turnbull commented mostly on the size of the book, "I would say that only the most severe critic could point at a minor omission, let alone a serious one."<ref name="WD16">{{cite journal |last =Turnbull |first =Don |title =Open Box |type=review |journal =[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]] |issue=16 |pages =15 |publisher =[[Games Workshop]] |date=December 1979 – January 1980 }}</ref>

Scott Taylor for ''[[Black Gate (magazine)|Black Gate]]'' in 2014 listed both the 1st edition ''AD&D'' ''DMG'' re-cover and the 2nd Edition ''AD&D'' ''DMG'' both by [[Jeff Easley]] as #10 in The Top 10 TSR Cover Paintings of All Time.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2014/09/17/art-of-the-genre-the-top-10-tsr-cover-paintings-of-all-time/ | title=Art of the Genre: The Top 10 TSR Cover Paintings of All Time – Black Gate | date=17 September 2014 }}</ref>

Scott Taylor of ''[[Black Gate (magazine)|Black Gate]]'' listed the ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' as #2 on the list of "Top 10 'Orange Spine' ''AD&D'' Hardcovers By Jeff Easley, saying "Not taking anything away from EVERYTHING THAT THE DM IS and how well Jeff represents it here, but I still believe when many folks think about an 'orange spine', they are going to remember #1 first, because at the end of the day, this [is] a re-cover, and half the folks out there are going to be about the Sutherland III edition."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2016/09/14/art-of-the-genre-top-10-orange-spine-add-hardcovers-by-jeff-easley/ | title=Art of the Genre: Top 10 'Orange Spine' AD&D Hardcovers by Jeff Easley – Black Gate | date=14 September 2016 }}</ref>

In his 2023 book ''Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground'', RPG historian Stu Horvath noted, "The ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' is strange and deeply idiosyncratic. Without a doubt, I believe it's also a masterpiece. Gygax expresses in it a singular vision that feels ''true'' in a way few other RPG books can ever hope to equal — it is an accidental portrait of the man's brain circa 1978."<ref name=mahg>{{cite book| last = Horvath| first = Stu| title = Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground| publisher = MIT Press| date = 2023| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts| pages = 58 | isbn =9780262048224 }}</ref>