Absoultely awesome resource for lazy DMs like me! 'nuff said!

Nerzugal's Dungeon Master’s Toolkit

This fantastic 100 page book is broken down into five chapters.

[Section A] - Random Tables [Section B] - Puzzles [Section C] - One-Shots [Section D] - Dungeon Maps [Section E] - Complete Dungeons

Each section is well written and chocked full of time saving additions to any campaign. The detailed description in the tables give the DM a quick yet comprehensive idea to fill in any side encounters during a campaign.

One Shots contains 6 short adventures to be used as short encounter of up to 1-2 hours.

The Dungeon Maps are handrawn unfortunately and some are not lined up evenly in the photos. These would have been much better using a computer generated image to be more professional like the publication.

The Complete Dungeon chapter contains 4 larger adventures for levels 4-7. I haven’t play tested them yet but they appear like they will be enjoyable quests of 3-4 hours.

The main criticism I have is the lack of artwork to compliment the plethora of information contained in this book.

Awesome. I haven't even looked at the written one-offs but the random item enchantments and the puzzles are amazing.

This incredible collection of resources has pulled my fat out of the fire on many an occassion keep a copy on hand for one-shots, player curve balls, or any occassion that calls for a fast pull from a deep bag of tricks. Pick up a copy amd throw money at the creator.

Probably the best "pay what you want" product here. Extremely useful for new DMs as well as seasoned ones. The one-shot adventures, dungeons and maps in the last sections are simply perfect if you need to quickly populate a sandbox campaign.

Nerzugal has put a lot of effort in this book and it shows. Lots of content that is very useful and will help a lot of DMs out there. I would have given this a perfect score if not for the fact it feels a bit rushed or incomplete. Would have liked more intuitive random encounter tables and more maps for some of the other adventures.

Hey Folks, we’re putting together another one of our mystery box series. Today we’re looking at something a little bit different. Today we have a DM’s Guild supplement created by a community member. This supplement, written by Nerzugal, features a host of useful tools and options for a Dungeon Master. The aptly named Dungeon Master’s Toolkit has five primary resources that a Dungeon Master can utilize in his or her game. We’re going to look at this a little differently than we do with adventures, and we’re going to break down the sections and talk about what you can find in each.

Random Tables For the DM who’s looking for an outburst of random fun, the Toolkit includes a variety of random tables. There’s a random encounter table that includes a variety of creative options (my personal favorite is the Random Disaster option). Also included are 8 percentile tables for applying positive and negative quirks to magical items. With some creative dice rolls, you can create memorable magical items that your players will remember for quite a while.

Puzzles Personally i am not a fan of puzzles for a variety of reasons, but this section does include several puzzle ideas that can either be dropped directly into an adventure design or extrapolate for players who’ve encountered them before. The puzzles range in complexity from some simple number work to more complex logic puzzles. Every puzzle is diagrammed for the benefit of the Dungeon Master, and from the puzzle descriptions you should be able to create diagrams for the players.

One Shots These are short adventures that you can use to fill an evening in an existing campaign, kickstart a new one, or just show your friends how to play Dungeons and Dragons. These are nice and short adventures you can get through in a single evening and are excellent interludes to give you a break in your current campaign. Each of these one shots has a suggested level range and are generic enough that you can slot them into whatever setting you’re playing in with little effort Maps Maps can be a very handy resource for a DM looking to place an encounter (or an entire adventure). The inclusion of pre-drawn maps (with rough outlines for scale) are probably my favorite thing about this entire kit. I can take the shell of any one of these maps and fill it with an adventure of my own creation. The existence of that shell means that i have the lines that i need to color within to build the adventure, and that means that i can focus on the encounters and the things that are going into the adventure rather than worrying about drawing a map.

Dungeons The final section of this toolkit contains four complete dungeons fleshed out with encounters and treasure. They’ve each got a suggested level range and are ready to be played as is. You shouldn’t have to make any adjustments (except for figuring out where they are in your game world). Each one of these could be used in a similar manner to the One Shots, but they have a lot more going in inside each one.

What I like about this Tool Kit The Author has put a lot of resources into a small package. In 100 pages, the Author has presented a host of maps, dungeons, and one shots. With those resources alone a DM can keep his players busy for weeks or months as they prepare a larger campaign. The addition of the random tables and puzzles also gives a DM a lot of customization options for making everything feel unique. It’s an excellent resource and gives the DM a lot of places to start planning and working from.
Issues with the Toolkit I have two primary concerns with this product. First, some of the random encounters on the random encounter table either reference another random encounter table of the DM’s own devising (like a medium difficulty encounter occurs), which means that the DM has to do more prepwork to be able to use this one. Further, the random encounter table has some random encounters are vaguely defined on how they work (like a Natural Disaster strikes!). A DM may not have notes ready for what happens with a volcanic eruption in their notes. The other issue i have is that three of the dungeons don’t have maps. We’ve seen that this author knows how to put maps together and has done a fine job of doing so in earlier areas, so the lack of inclusion of maps for those dungeons seems like a glaring omission.
These are very minor issues and they don’t detract from the overall value of the toolkit as a resource for the DM. Conclusions The DM’s Toolkit is a tremendous resource for the DM who either hasn’t had enough time to plan out a session, or who’s looking for a bit of variety. The Dungeons are fully formed adventure areas for players to explore, and the One Shots can easily fill an evening to give everyone a break from the current story. The Maps are basically blank canvasses for a DM to express their creative adventure building ideas. The Puzzles are very clever and scale in complexity. Finally, i do like the ideas that can crop up from the Random Encounter tables, and you can customise magical items for days with the random effects tables. Overall, I give this resource 5 stars, and i enjoy Nerzugal’s work. The issues i have with this product are minor, and are not things that should keep this from being a very handy resource for the Dungeon Master.

Cannot reccomend highly enough

Nerzugal has put together an array of content rivaling ANY official 5e content, and has it on the market for dirt cheap. Great content that uses both interesting NPCs, action elements, intuitive exploration, and just the right amount of quirkiness. In the short time I've used it, my DMing style has been nfluenced so much, and my players have been more engaged and thrilled than I've ever seen before.

Even if you don't need extra content, at least browse Nerzugal's DM Toolkit and get a sense for some excellent game design. You can really tell that Nerzugal just gets D&D and what makes it fun.

WOTC only gave me 5 stars to rate you with, but content like this makes me wish for more.

Thank you Nerzugal for making Monday nights twice as fun for my friends.

I really enjoyed this product, you can check out a full review here at my blog http://www.theevildm.com/2017/03/review-of-nerzugals-dungeon-master.html

Getting ready to do a "West Marches" campaign for a large group of people and this book is going to come in handy. Can't wait to slip these one shots in for my players to deal with.

This book is great, extremely well designed and usefull.

This is a great resource for DMs. The one-shots and dungeons will definetly be used when I don't have enough time to prepare for a session. There's a lot of creativity as many adventures have fully fleshed out interactions for every single path players can take. I found the puzzles interesting, some of them I will have on the backburner to spice up a run-of-the-mill dungeon crawl (like the multicolored orbs) but the rest primarily consist of complex numbers or cyphers that I think average players might not have the patience for. No real fleshed out NPCs, but this is a toolkit, so suck it up lazy DMs! Overall, I would recommend this product to other DMs.

This is a pretty good mix of tools, one shots, puzzles and traps. Useful stuff and will definitely help to fill in gaps when I run out of prep time!

This is a good collection of tools. Lots to use for a DM. Worth checking out.

I am really enjoying this product. It has a lot of great things to use on your players. As a DM I say this is a great deal and worth paying for.