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Fairly new user to FG, recently started running our Pathfinder2E games on FG due to COVID social distancing requirements.

With the current sale going on figured I would grab the PHB, MM, and Xanthars, but unsure how useful the DM Guide content was Already own the physical books and content on DD Beyond, so mostly looking at FG mechanics.

The DMs guide is mostly useful for the magic items and treasure tables.

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You can get 99 of that free with the SRD but you dont have the artwork.

I also use the DMG for the NPC and encounter creation rules, but I dont have a printed version (which could be used for the same).

The last time I looked, there were very few DMG magic items excluded from the SRD.

IMO as a DM you want the DMG for the Tables (ie Treasure, Random Dungeon, Art items, Gems, ect) and Story Templates in addition to the Magic Items.

In FG you can roll on all these tables and get the results by clicking your mouse.

All the SRD has is magic items.

If that is all you want from the DMG then the SRD is fine.

As a DM its probably the lowest priority book, though - you probably want monster books if you make your own adventures or an adventure module first if you are going to use one.

Perhaps the least useful of the essentials along with SCAG, only worth because of treasure tables and that too feels incomplete and vague.

Im very dissapointed with the current incarnation of the DMG by WoTC, too much fluff and a lot of vague mechanics.

Because of that, you see a lot of books in the DMs Guild to cover all the incomplete aspects of the DMG (encounters, herbalism, alchemy, etc).

I agree it was probably the book I needed least, but as I was putting adventures together I noticed things I was looking for like the weather tables.

There are some charts missing, like the info about foraging and getting lost in the wilderness, that I would have found useful, but I can just look those up in my hard copy.

NPCs. All the traps in the DMG are input as NPCs so they can be easily dropped into an encounter or dropped into the NPC list and quickly modified (which is the biggest use for me).