Lore Glossary | 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide | D&D

[@deathweepss]

As an experienced DM with nearly every book, I’m once again excited for this resurgence of elder lore.

[@MyFireVideos]

As a noob DM, I look forward to learning what in the world is going on

[@rhlutz]

I have a new campaign starting this weekend with a warlock of the great old one, can't wait to tuck into some elder lore for them!

[@deathweepss]

@@MyFireVideosyour quest for knowledge will be exhaustingly rewarding…

[@MyFireVideos]

@@deathweepss haha yes! I even started a yt channel documenting my journey as a noob dm. It's called Noob D&D Dad. Come on by, I always appreciate people giving me advice!

[@deathweepss]

@@MyFireVideos I might just go that! I’m going to be going over every 5e module in a YT series of my own. A few episodes in and I’ll start publishing the videos!

[@3ndlessL00p]

Acererak can have a little adventurer's soul, as a treat

[@ilovethelegend]

_halfling shrieking as they fall into a death pit_

[@_lostclub]

Everyone is going to be scouring all the info on Modrons now, THANKS

[@Noob_DnD_Dad]

Are those the eyeball people that look like mike wazokski from monsters inc?

[@stwbmc98]

@@Noob_DnD_DadI can’t even tell if you mean Modrons or Beholders

[@mejhdhhicbfshihids652]

@@Noob_DnD_Dadyep

[@jgrabyan]

@@Noob_DnD_Dadsometimes!

[@dungeonology622]

I'm glad to see at least a little love for 4E here with the inclusion of the Raven Queen, Prince of Frost, and the primordials. I'm always happy to see bits of 4E lore pop back up in 5E because there are good ideas there to be taken and repurposed.

[@TonySamedi]

Slight spoilers, but if you check out the Black Dice Society liveplay series D&D did for the Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft release, the Raven Queen pops up during it and is a very important figure.

[@TravisChalmers]

Cool I thought raven queen predated 4th

[@videogollumer]

I actually like the idea from 4e that Demogorgan, Orcus, and Baphomet were the first Tanar'ri Lords; as they're the only ones who are based on real world mythic figures.

[@rpghorrorstories]

​@TravisChalmers she has abit of overlap with Wee Jas, the morally ambiguous Lawful Neutral goddess of death and magic in Greyhawk.

[@Heimal]

Love it anytime 4E gets brought up. Of all editions it had the clearest and cleanest presentation of the worlds and the history of everything.

[@Darkstar_Aurora]

4:53 The PHB artwork is of Laeral Silverhand. Her circlet, long silver braids, and Robe of the Archmagi are key elements of her depictions and she is named in the caption. Those first two elements go back to Valerie Valusek's b&w illustrations in The Seven Sisters in 1995, and she wears the archmagi robes in her art from Dragon Heist in 2018. Alustriel Silverhand has shoulder-length flowing silver hair, a unicorn headed staff of Silverymoon, tear-shaped gems, and has had a more golden/tan complexion than her sisters going back to her first full color illustration in 2000. All of those elements are referenced again in 2024 with Vecna: Eve of Ruin. TL;DR you confused the sisters when referencing the PHB art piece

[@trise2033]

I'm sorry, you forgot to say "Um, Actually", so no points for that.

[@MollymaukT]

1:05 is what I picture when people ask me in job interviews where I see myself in 5 years

[@DavidVincent-f5l]

They should make a encyclopedia sets of a lot of the d&d lore. Include people, places, economy, history, and such. Even if they don't want to do it themselves. They could hire a former official co-partner writer.

[@SortKaffe]

*Forgotten Realms wiki* already exists, so I don't need a lore glossary, since Google has served me well so far. I do love this video though

[@DavidVincent-f5l]

An idea to add in with the modrons. We use to have as a weird technology programmable mechanical punch cards. So the every 289 years, those guys collect books of these cards as apart of their censorship census.

[@jamesfoster9613]

Turn of Fortune's Wheel touches on the outcome of a Modron March so that's intriguing that Chris said it like that >.>

[@bagrym]

whenever i see a video with these fine gentlemen being passionate gem devs, I wished this had been a possible careerpath for me.

[@jasonsumma1530]

Thanks for including the lore portion. Most of the time the most we get is the different planes and possible deities that exist in those planes\worlds. One character I would like more info on is Sardior who was mention at the very start of Fizban's book. Sardior was the Ruby Dragon and supposed to been the deity of the gem dragons but got destroyed. Characters like this one would be nice to be expanded upon.

[@ZpEB2741]

It's crazy to think D&D canonically has people who were isekai-ed in from our world

[@Heimal]

I take it you haven't read about Mulhorand

[@bradleyhurley6755]

@@Heimal I honestly find it weird and silly.

[@Shroom-Mage]

One of the interesting things about D&D is that _everything_ is considered canon. The kids from the cartoon were in the movie, which is also canon. Even homebrew adventures are canon. The only question is whether events that happened in one universe also happened in another.

[@bradleyhurley6755]

@@Shroom-Mage Yeah I just think you run into a number of issues once you establish that you can get to earth. Like why isn't earth technology spread throughout the Multiverse? Why is there no religion that teaches that the gods are just powerful beings. How does half of the real world religions even relate. And why is it there are a million of so worlds with the exact same history until some point in time?

[@ajdynon]

@@bradleyhurley6755Repeat to yourself, “It’s just a game, I should really just relax”.

[@ActualChef]

I’ve DM’d multiple Warlocks with Old One patrons. Now it’s time to dig deeper into those. Love it.

[@unusuallycloudy]

The fact that they are reaching back to all editions of D&D has me super excited! Can't wait to pick this up.

[@pathosnomos2757]

Cant wait for the new DMG as a whole, but can't wait to read over the lore guide.

[@deathweepss]

Spawn of Kyuss with Fire Fungus growth and jumping maggots with fire damage…also mob rules.

[@MrTrevormaclean]

Well, now I just want a massive Modron March adventure module

[@hervemasseron6203]

It already has been writen by Monte cook & Colin McComb "The Great Modron March" a planescape adventure for 2nd D&D edition. One of my favorite of all time !

[@liv4themoments]

Wizards needs to make an isekai anime for the 21st century with a new set of kids from around the world getting pulled into the D&D setting. ❤

[@MisterDiceGuy]

"Where are we?" "Welcome adventurers to the Forgotten Realms" "Oh, we're in Ohio"

[@Shroom-Mage]

They start out trying to "metagame" and quickly discover that they can't see any of the game mechanics and have to actually learn and train the hard way.

[@HistoryInMyHands]

I am sooo looking forward to getting my DM guide '24 always exciting to see the newest version of an old favorite! Well done!

[@ShurikenSean]

im happy the glossary includes spelljammer lore. but it is kinda sad it might have more lore than the actual spelljammer books

[@ConstructedChaos]

I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would!

[@MsMotherWolf]

I'm closing in on finishing a near 2 year campaign running the Ashardalon Saga from Sunless Citadel up to Bastion of Broken Souls. The grind on needing to update stat blocks to 5e was harrowing.

[@michaellaramee1965]

I for one welcome our inevitable Modron overlords

[@talongreenlee7704]

I hope that the lore glossary includes some stuff on the Sorcerer Kings. I know basically nothing about them but they sound awesome.

[@andyenglish4303]

Hrm... I doubt you'll get much specifics because Athas/Dark sun is somewhat radioactive in the eyes of Hasbro, WOTC's corporate overlords

[@birdfrog6266]

“Oh I haven’t thought about the raven queen for years!” Prolly not the best example lmao

[@andyenglish4303]

Weird thing to single out when she's in an animated series

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

Hey Acererak, good to see you buddy! How's the Godmaking going?

[@GinnyDi]

13:35 🫣

[@jaramillojuancho]

Hi, came here from your other video, jaja. Greetings from Colombia, South America.

[@EricMesa]

the worm that walks is my new nightmare fuel. Thanks, guys!

[@SmileyTrilobite]

I thought most of the D&D cartoon cast arrived home at the end of the unaired finale “Requiem”.

[@Impath]

In the original script there was a cliffhanger ending in which the kids have a choice of either using a portal to go home or stay and fight evil. The fan made one had the kids use the portal to go home with the exception of Presto who decides to stay in the Realm.

[@Dolmio12]

They did, but for the new edition they’ve returned, Narnia style. There’s a short, free adventure about it available on D&Dbeyond at the moment.

[@thefandombard4774]

Yes i loved using the eldar evils in my campaign made for interesting villians

[@ninnusridhar]

In my campaign baba yaga has a toddler with her. Someone saddled her with the safekeeping of a toddler, and she takes the matter very seriously. The toddler is named baby yaga, and has a little bright pink toddler sized house on its own much smaller chicken legs constantly running behind baba yaga's house. Sort of like a little chick behind its parent. Shes constantly exasperated by the kids's antics. The baby asks too many questions. Never stops babbling. And messes with ALL her potions. Baba yaga threatens to do all sorts of horrible things to the child. But it's all a jest. The child is quickly becoming the most promising protege she's ever had. I can't wait to get to my next campaign where I can introduce the child now grown up as a full on npc

[@memeslich]

This is the first official dnd youtube video to discuss "adventure paths"

[@tonysladky8925]

I'm a bit disappointed that the exchange didn't go "Who is Acererak?" "Well you're gonna have to buy the new DMG." Okay, I guess I actually needed this because I thought Baba Lysaga was the D&D equivalent of the Baba Yaga from folklore here in the real world, but q quick Google Search says she's the Ravenloft equivalent, but the classic Baba Yaga is there in other canonical settings.

[@goji253]

Correction, Baba Yaga can visit Ravenloft too. Lysaga isn't the Ravenloft equivalent, she's a hag with way less prominence than Baba Yaga that exists simultaneously.

[@Nemo12417]

@@goji253 Not to be that guy, but Lysaga isn't even a hag. She's a very long lived human. Not a fey, and I can't even tell that she has any particular association with them. Which is notable because Barovia has hags.

[@bluesnake4626]

Maybe there is some lore stuff im missing, but the Alustriel Silverhand shown in that art dose not look like the one from Eve of Ruin

[@Darkstar_Aurora]

That is because the PHB artwork is Laeral Silverhand. Her circlet and silver braids are key elements of her depictions and Robes of the Archmagi became her 5E look in Waterdeep Dragon Heist. Alustriel Silverhand in Eve of Ruin has the shorter hair and golden complexion from the FRCS in 3E in 2000 and the teardrop gems from older artwork.

[@bluesnake4626]

@@Darkstar_Aurora Thank you for the explanation

[@SavageJenner]

Is that the Raven Queen?

[@andreacolombo7896]

Yup, that is she.

[@gyorgyor7765]

One version of her at least, curious if we get the OG Raven Queen Goddess lore or MTOFs messed up kind of new FR version of her lore or a mix.

[@goji253]

@@gyorgyor7765 Personal little hot take of mine. The almost eldritch horror FR version of her is much more interesting. Especially since there is a lot of implications about the few things we know of her, like being tied up with the Domains of Dread or the weird fact that the Lady of Pain (an ancient brethren) is the only known being that knows what the Raven Queen is. Meanwhile in 4e she is, well, an ascended Death deity which are a dime a dozen in the Realms. She'd be pretty much no different from the likes of Jergal, Myrkull and Kelemvor.

[@Shroom-Mage]

​@@goji253Don't forget Wee Jas. At the Raven Queen's introduction as a neutral goddess of death, she practically felt like a stand-in.

[@tormunnvii3317]

@goji253 Yes! Im so glad I'm not the only one who sees the original Raven Queen lore as “generic god of death number 10”.

[@NectarFromARose]

the way my tomb of annihilation campaign just got spoiled by an official D&D video lmfao

[@NembyPeabody]

I’ve been scream for yall to do this for years

[@KnicKnac]

It’d be funny if Modrons were a problem in a book.

[@Aaslok_56]

Raven Queen🖤

[@Noob_DnD_Dad]

I'm very curious about running a DMPC and if I should attempt it or not

[@SendohJin]

generally no, give sidekicks to your players instead, and why would you bring this up in this video?

[@Noob_DnD_Dad]

@SendohJin thanks for the answer. I was watching people talk about the new dmg and also watched this, so I figured I'd throw it out there and see if any experienced players had any feedback. But you're right, this is kind of a weird video to bring it up on.

[@SendohJin]

@@Noob_DnD_Dad best place to ask these types of things are on subreddits like DMAcademy.

[@mysticking__]

A shame we in Brazil won't have this

[@CyanMentality]

Watch Chris Perkins; watch his eyebrows! Look at the way his hat does overtime wrangling those expressive little beasties, keeping them bound to this realm and not wriggling away!

[@laughingpanda4395]

A is for Acererak

[@bradleyhurley6755]

I might be on my own, but I would have much rather had individual magic item prices, than a lore glossary. My hunch is the entries are not going to be sufficient enough for anything, and the books that introduce those characters should be the place where the characters are mentioned.

[@jacobstafford9229]

Ok I hate to do this here but I’m struggling trying to get my preorder bonuses. Any advice would be appreciated.

[@bradleyhurley6755]

Email support. It literally took me a month but they finally answered.

[@jacobstafford9229]

@@bradleyhurley6755 thank you!

[@TenchiJeff]

Did they just confirm that the Dragonlance God Paladine and Bahamut are the same being again?

[@8596shadow]

It has always been compared, same with takesis and Tiamat

[@ajdynon]

@@8596shadowNot according to Margaret Weis. Whether you believe her or WotC likely depends on whether you consider yourself primarily a gamer or a novel reader.

[@8596shadow]

@@ajdynon wotc owns the intellectual properties and controls the cannon. Cannon lore, takesis and paladine are alternate planes versions of Tiamat and Bahamut. Same as the way greatwyrms are created are when ancient dragons merge other versions of themselves together from other planes.

[@Kburnzzzzzzz]

i am so excited for this book

[@mslabo102s2]

Now 2024 Core Rules HAS to be in Japanese even just for this. We don't have those shared knowledge out there.

[@AustinWolda]

Will there eventually be a book full of these named characters stat blocks? Just in case we wanna poke the bear from time to time

[@Heimal]

Use them however you like, Make up your own stats.

[@AustinWolda]

@@Heimal *makes fart noise* nah. I’ll just give it a goog

[@volnei29296]

James Wyatt ❤

[@Nemo12417]

Wait, so the episode Requiem is officially not canon? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[@SamanthaVimes177]

What is this?

[@Impath]

In the original script there was a cliffhanger ending in which the kids have a choice of either using a portal to go home or stay and fight evil. The fan made original followed the script with one exception: the kids use the portal to go home with the exception of Presto who decides to stay in the Realm.

[@SamanthaVimes177]

@@Impath they gave up their special powers to go home?

[@TrampasWhiteman]

So looking forward to this section. BTW, the Raven Queen was inspired by the god Wee Jas of the Greyhawk setting.

[@AMRosa10]

No mention of The Lady of Pain? Apparently it isn't only the gods that fear her....

[@mappybc6097]

Kinda weird tbh. Wish spell in the 2024 PHB literally namedrops her, so you'd imagine they tell newcomers who she is and why she gets to decide if a wish happens or not.

[@BidoofSquad]

Just because she’s not in this video doesn’t necessarily mean she’s not on the book

[@emilyz4104]

A-loo-stri-el? Her name is pronounced that way? Not A-luh-stri-el? My entire confidence in myself as a gamer has been obliterated.

[@roll4stealth671]

Acererak vs Vecna!!!

[@GeneCavalcante]

For people that got all 3 books in preorder...are we getting the books only when Monster is released? 😢

[@donaldcardwell4878]

No I already got phb, they should come as they're released

[@elementzero3379]

You don't yet have your PHB? I've had mine for many weeks.

[@GeneCavalcante]

@@elementzero3379 not yet. Got it on Amazon and its international shipping. Sill no date for it. 😭

[@elementzero3379]

@@GeneCavalcante Aw, that sucks. I hope it arrives soon, my friend. International shipping times can be tricky. I don't know how Amazon is handling their pre-orders. I bought mine directly from D&D Beyond, the first physical purchase I've made through that portal. It arrived quickly and in perfect condition, but wasn't well packaged. I worry about my DMG and MM, as they'll ship in a season of inclement weather.

[@GeneCavalcante]

@@elementzero3379 thanks man. I'm really hopping I get it soon. I'm planing a new campaign.

[@kainmathews5489]

Venger! Warduke etc

[@lovemonkeycr8zy]

Will there be will these names have phonetics?

[@kennethray8473]

Based on the interaction at 3:52, it seems likely that there will be pronunciation guides next to each name.

[@lovemonkeycr8zy]

@kennethray8473 I hope so. If someone bothered to make up a new name in a fantasy language, at least tell me how to say it.

[@manuel-3500]

7:24

[@manuelmialdea5127]

Wait is Bahamut pronounced Bahumat?

[@laughingpanda4395]

No no no. This drove me crazy as well. Same as them pronouncing sigil as siggal. WotC swears it's siggal but as someone who was playing d&d when the first planescape came out, it's definitely sigil and was pronounced so. They are re-writing and changing certain things. So it seems.

[@SheBeast-OG]

The dude who answers says it Bahamut right after that.

[@simongervais9302]

6:55 it's a bit egregious that people in this official interview mispronunce Bahamut as Bahumat or other

[@relicraiding]

Dude if I could have jump through the screen when he proudly said “A ?Lue? Striel”.. It’s Lust boys and it should be if you know her lore.

[@simongervais9302]

@@relicraiding it's a bit shameful that Todd doesn't have that down... he's been a host for D&D related stuff before I got into it..... that makes little to no sense

[@themonolougist]

I really don't like the Hadar pronounciation lmao always thought it's like hah-dar (Will be using it wrong tho)

[@kylemaclachlan7279]

I think if a warlock tries to use arms of hey-dar on my npcs I will take advantage of the fact they don't technically know who made the deal yet and make it a celestial hillbilly to make that pronunciation make sense.

[@themonolougist]

@@kylemaclachlan7279 this is so awesome wtf might i suggest wasteland 3 as some inspiration, it has some great religious nonsense dialogues baked into that accent

[@kylemaclachlan7279]

@@themonolougist This was meant to be the stick not the carrot🥹.

[@paperwatt]

Thats pretty cool to pull lore from earlier versions of D&D. The Worm that walks was a pretty cool one! And the heroes of the Realm that's so funny!

[@grr-OUCH]

I read some of the novels in the 90s. I recall several of the characters from the lore, but when I read those books I felt like I was reading somebody's gaming log and found most of those characters to be annoying (it definitely felt like a party of Mary Sues).

[@HistoryVideoGamesMiscStuff]

Who defines what a year is?

[@bjam89]

the dm

[@donaldcardwell4878]

Way too excited ab this

[@ogrejehosephatt37]

Make the lore chapter free on D&D Beyond.

[@kylemaclachlan7279]

Hey-dar cant be the pronunciation right? that has to be them messing with us right?

[@SheBeast-OG]

Absolutely am not pronouncing it "Aloostriel"

[@davidragan9233]

9:05 aka G.O.O.? 15:01 We sooooooOOooooOOOOOoooo Need an Isekai Background lol!

[@hamsmcham3238]

I think I'm an outlier but I honestly don't care about the lore at all... Well except the blood wars 😈

[@clockup5878]

Why is this DMG the last of Chris Perkins works as a designer? Is he quitting WoTC after that?

[@StabbySideways]

Christ, can we not get through a single one of these videos without bringing in that damn cartoon? I used to have some nostalgia for it, but it's become extremely over-exposed.

[@goyasolidar]

Hay-dar is such a lame way to pronounce that name. Say it with the forbidding intonation it deserves: Huh-DAR.

[@andyenglish4303]

Do not like that design for the Raven Queen at all.

[@AAron-gr3jk]

Unfortunate kids: Hahahahaha DM vibes

[@Trekari]

So when Players don't know who a deity is, they are supposed to now go look in the DMG? Fun fact: The first session I ran after the 2024 PHB came out and REMOVED all of the Pantheon information as compared to the 2014 version, my players had to look up information about Forgotten Realms gods. Now that information isn't found in a book the players are supposed to have access to. Brilliant.

[@SmileyTrilobite]

Isn’t that so new players don’t come in expecting these entities to exist as described in every setting, or so DMs can withhold secrets?

[@natezabinski5615]

Saying this the day before it premieres: This is the part of the book I'm least excited about. It's mostly for keeping the branding alive, while also rewriting a few bits to make the multiverse more hegemonic and marketable. I'd love to be proven wrong, though; maybe there's some writing prompts to go off of. Edit: Looks like they're /framing/ it like writing prompts.

[@johnfree1717]

It is the part I am least excited about because it hold zero value to me since I use a completely homebrew world with completely homebrew lore. So it might as well be just a bunch of blank pages in the book for me. However, I know there are people that really want that information and the book is not designed specifically for me but a broad range of people.

[@xiongray]

It's important to know where races/species originated from. That's basic enough lore that should be important & not just stat & abilities.

[@elementzero3379]

​@@xiongrayThese origins are highly specific to each campaign setting. Despite how they might try to reframe it, Eberron's elves are entirely unrelated to Faerun's elves. The have no shared origin, no shared cultural characteristics, no shared history. The homogenization of D&D across settings is not a positive thing. It strips away and ignores the wonderful details that make each world distinct and fun.

[@brianmeza2390]

@@johnfree1717 Quite a few creative minded DMs will read their favorite books or watch their favorite movies/tv shows to acquire inspiration for the stories they want to tell in their homebrew campaigns. But I suppose that is a very monumental feat to completely homebrew an entire world with no ties to traditional fantasy history/tropes. Having a lore glossary can relieve some of that burden, if only to borrow ideas...

[@xiongray]

@@elementzero3379 You're correct on not trying to homogenized it but there is still a culture, isn't there?

[@Uthardar]

Also these guys just parented that lore videos don’t exist,

[@vuboy122288]

False Hydra or no go Wizards. Add it!

[@CJWproductions]

Check your monster manual. It's been there the whole time.

[@chrism4724]

Is....this.....nooooo

[@20storiesunder]

What?

[@chrism4724]

@@20storiesunder the Raven Queen

[@20storiesunder]

@@chrism4724 oh yeah!

[@chrism4724]

@@20storiesunder she is the only one worth worshiping

[@20storiesunder]

@@chrism4724 Noooooo my shadar Kai nopped out of there first chance he got.

[@gregorysheridan2015]

This company is so bad lol. They do a fantastic job with the new phb but couldn't wait their money grubbing fingers to just release all 3 books because what is the point without all 3. Its like for every good decision they make they must make 3 mistakes.

[@jtim2]

I think they've said it was just a printing logistics issue - the companies they contact with to print the books can't do them all at once. I'm not sure why it would be better for consumers if they just let the PHB and DMG sit in warehouses for months until the printers could finish the MM.

[@gregorysheridan2015]

@@jtim2 because we are running a flawed book that needs the context of the other 2

[@jtim2]

@@gregorysheridan2015Personally I've found it pretty easy to use with older 5e content. But you could also just wait to buy or use the PHB until all three are out then, right? If they couldn't put the DMG & MM out any earlier regardless, I don't see a downside to having the PHB available earlier rather than holding it until the MM is ready to put out.