D&D (2024) So other Classes for the PHB are dead and gone yes?

[DEFCON 1]

I just want to see real classes in the new D&D. Like, understandable classes that don't pigeonhole people and force them into neat stereotypes. That's why I just want the following four classes in the next D&D:

• Dwarf
• Elf
• Halfling
• Human

Every day we stray further from Gygax's holy light...

You'd be better off just going back to playing B/X and thus getting what you want then.

 

[Minigiant]

I more or less expect by 2030

• Warriors
  • Barbarian- PHB
  • Monk- PHB
  • Fighter -PHB
  • Warlord - Nentir Vale book or some Options book
• Experts
  • Artificer- Eberron Book
  • Bard- PHB
  • Ranger- PHB
  • Rogue- PHB
• Priests
  • Cleric -PHB
  • Druid -PHB
  • Paladin -PHB
  • Shaman - some Options Book
• Mages
  • Swordmage -Forgotten Realms Book
  • Sorcerer -PHB
  • Warlorck --PHB
  • Wizard --PHB

After 2030 if OD&D even attempted to be backwards compatable, it will be soooo thin on ideas, the class bloat will start.

 

[Scribe]

After 2030 if OD&D even attempted to be backwards compatable, it will be soooo thin on ideas, the class bloat will start.

I do wonder about this. If the goal (stated) is met, and we are already getting another Options book, the Giants, and Planescape.

I really have to wonder what else they can provide after the "not a reset" that I will care about at all.

 

[Greg K]

I just want to see real classes in the new D&D. Like, understandable classes that don't pigeonhole people and force them into neat stereotypes. That's why I just want the following four classes in the next D&D:

• Dwarf
• Elf
• Halfling
• Human

Every day we stray further from Gygax's holy light...

Technically, Gygax not have race as class. Race as class started with Holmes' Basic D&D

 

[Minigiant]

I do wonder about this. If the goal (stated) is met, and we are already getting another Options book, the Giants, and Planescape.

I really have to wonder what else they can provide after the "not a reset" that I will care about at all.

The Giants Option book is half an options book because it will likely have less than a dozen feats, no new races, 2-3 subclasses, and under 50 monsters.
That's half a "true" options product.

Hence my point. The design team are traditionalists.. 95% the traditional D&D stuff are already printed in 5e. They are at the edge of their imagination. There's almost nothing left that they want that they can make.

How can you go 5 more years when you are at the edge? You only have 3 options.

1. Reprint stuff you've already sold
2. Search for and recreate popular stuff you personally don't care about
3. Breaksome of the rules you put on yourself and create new classes, freaky races, and non-spellslot subsystems

 

[Clint_L]

The thing I would remind the OP is that you don't need the Psion (or whatever) to be in the new PHB for it to be in OneD&D. All of the current books are in OneD&D...and so are all the books being released in 2023. Including Planescape. Which could well include that class. So you have a decent shot of getting to play a psionic-based character even before the new PHB comes out.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Technically, Gygax not have race as class. Race as class started with Holmes' Basic D&D

Sure. In OD&D, if you wanted to be a dwarf, you just wrote "Dwarf" on your sheet for your fighter, cleric, or wizard! That's the best way to do it, all flavor, no bloat.