D&D (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

Book is near-final and includes psionic subclasses, and illustrations of named spell creators.

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In this video about the upcoming revised Player’s Handnook, WotC’s Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins reveal a few new tidbits.
  • The books are near final and almost ready to go to print
  • Psionic subclasses such as the Soulknife and Psi Warrior will appear in the core books
  • Named spells have art depicting their creators.
  • There are new species in the PHB.
 

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-They mention Melf been depicted, casting Melf's Acid Arrow, but no mention of there being a depiction Evard casting Evard's Black Tentacles which would be something I'd be interested in seeing.
-Psi knight and Soulknife (did it replace the Swashbuckler from the UA?) being in the PHB, along with Aberrant Sorcerer and Great Old One Warlock, are a good acknowledgement of psionics without there being a dedicated psionic class.

Jallarzi Sallavarian was also name dropped, she was a member of the Circle of the 8, but she has no named spells, so perhaps this will be a completely new spell, perhaps Jallarzi Sallavarian's Improved Find Familiar.
 


Stormonu

Legend
Hmmm. Sounds like they are going to make the books more friendly towards new gamers with more examples.

Unsurprisingly, it looks like they will be combining the content of PHB + XGE + TCE in one place, and moving some thing (such as damaging objects) to the PHB.

Overall, sounds like nice quality of life updates. I still don't think I'm ready to put my 2014 books away to rebuy them for $120 or more.
 


It probably is, as we haven't had an instance where a PHB 2014 subclass has been replaced by one from Tasha's or Xanathar's. But if there was one that could be, then it might be the Assassin I guess.

Could even just be they have little bit of extra space and snuck it in there without removing anything, like they have certain pages counts they can use, I think made up if multiples of 32 pages, so maybe they needed x about of 32 pages to get everything they wanted in, but found that left say 10 extra pages, so they slipped in Soulknife and some other stuff.
 



Stormonu

Legend
Could even just be they have little bit of extra space and snuck it in there without removing anything, like they have certain pages counts they can use, I think made up if multiples of 32 pages, so maybe they needed x about of 32 pages to get everything they wanted in, but found that left say 10 extra pages, so they slipped in Soulknife and some other stuff.
They stated the books are bigger ("eye widening" for the PBH they say), and considering they're making XGE and TCE obsolete, that content needs to go somewhere.
 


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