Editing Dungeon Master's Guide (section)

=== Reception ===
The book won the 2015 [[ENnie Awards|ENnie]] "Best Supplement" Gold award and the 2015 [[Origins Award|Origins]] "Best Role-Playing Game Supplement" and "Fan Favorite" awards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-12|title=2015 ENnie Award Winners|url=http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/about-us/2014-ennie-awards-nominees/2015-ennie-award-winners/|access-date=2020-06-20|website=ENNIE Awards|language=en|archive-date=2019-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308125829/http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/about-us/2014-ennie-awards-nominees/2015-ennie-award-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2015 Origins Award Winners|url=https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/31740/2015-origins-award-winners|access-date=2020-06-20|website=icv2.com|language=en}}</ref>

Henry Glasheen, for ''[[SLUG Magazine]]'', wrote "Fifth Edition, to my eyes, is the new gold standard for D20-based tabletop RPGs. It strips away the tedium of systems and statistics and replaces them with the true substance of role playing—deep, immersive stories. I’ve often found that the Dungeon Master’s Guide was the most vestigial of all the D&D manuals, but Fifth Edition has elevated this previously tertiary book into something far more important and useful".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Glasheen|first=Henry|date=2015-02-26|title=D&D Fifth Edition: Dungeon Master's Guide Review|url=https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/reviews/game-reviews/dungeons-and-dragons-fifth-edition-dungeon-masters-guide-review/|access-date=2020-06-20|website=SLUG Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref>

Jonathan Bolding, for ''Escapist Magazine'', wrote "however, on finishing the book it's clear that while many critics - myself included - thought that this system would hinge on the ''DMG'', the DMG just confirmed what we already knew ''D&D'' 5th Edition to be. This is a living history of ''D&D'', a collection of what the game has been so far. Perfection, not innovation. Options, not prescriptions".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bolding|first=Jonathan|date=12 January 2015|title=D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Review - A Toolbox, But is it Useful?|url=https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/reviews/12849-D-D-Dungeon-Master-s-Guide-Review-A-Toolbox-But-is-it-Useful|access-date=2020-06-20|website=Escapist Magazine (v1)|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023074535/https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/tabletop/reviews/12849-D-D-Dungeon-Master-s-Guide-Review-A-Toolbox-But-is-it-Useful|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Chuck Francisco of mania.com commented: "Miles of treasure tables escort a wealth of random adventure tables to the ball, where they're resplendent in all of their easy session crafting majesty. The versatility of this tome is nowhere more obvious than amongst the flavor filled side panels, which further detail the lower magical level of the main setting, before explaining all of the variable options a DM has in bringing to life a world of their own."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/dungeons-dragons-dungeon-masters-guide-review_article_141111.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316020109/http://www.mania.com/dungeons-dragons-dungeon-masters-guide-review_article_141111.html|archive-date=March 16, 2015|date=January 5, 2015|title=Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Review}}</ref>

In a review of ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' in ''[[Black Gate (magazine)|Black Gate]]'', Scott Taylor said "The 5E ''DMG'' devotes the first 127 pages to teaching a novice player how to [be] a Dungeon Master in this system. Where Gygax made the assumption that an aspiring DM needed to sit at a table as a player and learn the system from another, become inspired, and then extrapolate on what they'd learned firsthand, the folks [at] Wizards of the Coast have gone in the opposite direction and believe anyone buying this book has never really played ''D&D'' before and needs instruction on how to DM the game."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2014/12/07/art-of-the-genre-playing-dd-5e-and-an-in-depth-look-at-the-new-dmg/ | title=Art of the Genre: Playing D&D 5E and an In-Depth Look at the new DMG – Black Gate | date=7 December 2014 }}</ref>