D&D (2024) Are you going to buy the new 2024 D&D Core Books

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Voted yes, because I'll probably get them. All they need to do to sell me is have a far superior MM and DMG, which we haven't seen in UA yet, but that's what I'm looking for.

They seem to understand the problems with the 2014 DMG, so I would bet on a much improved one this time around.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I am a solid maybe. I’m going to wait until reviews hit. I recently picked up Monsters of the Multiverse because it was on deep sale on Amazon, and I was real surprised at how neutered the lore was for so many species, to the point of neutering some and making utterly boring others. If the new books are nearly half as boring as that, then no, I won’t be buying them.

The lore that we've seen for the Tales of the Valiant versions of classic D&D monsters is very strong, IMO. Worth checking out their sample PDFs on their site, if you haven't. One of them is basically a stripped down monster manual with a few dozen critters.

 

[Reynard]

No, but mostly because I am not interested in giving WotC money again after the OGL Debacle. If I decide that I need updated 5e rules for whatever reason, I will go with TotV.

 

[Corinnguard]

No, but mostly because I am not interested in giving WotC money again after the OGL Debacle. If I decide that I need updated 5e rules for whatever reason, I will go with TotV.

What about Level up? curious

 

[Divine2021]

The lore that we've seen for the Tales of the Valiant versions of classic D&D monsters is very strong, IMO. Worth checking out their sample PDFs on their site, if you haven't. One of them is basically a stripped down monster manual with a few dozen critters.

Cool, thx mate for the heads up, I’ll check it out. I love the Tome of Beasts books, and the Race books Kobold Press have put out (their take on the Drow is awesome.) Haven’t checked out ToV yet, so now I will!

 

[Reynard]

What about Level up? curious

I own it and use a bunch of its elements -- especially its monsters -- in 5e already, but my 5e players aren't interested in its character options, for whatever reason.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

After seeing so many people 180 from “this is obviously incompatible with the 2014 rules” to “this could have been done with errata,”

I actually wonder if there is a significant number people did that specific 180, or if we're actully seeing different groups speak up.

It makes me think of the complaint I hear "You complained about this, so we changed it, and now you're complaining that we changed it." which usually isn't accurate because it is different people speaking up who have different opinions.

Anyone here actually frustrated that the early playtest was too different from the 2014 rules and is now still frustrated, thinking that the new stuff is little more than errata?

 

[John Lloyd1]

Yes - I DM Adventurer's League, so I expect I will need to. Plus, I have lots of store credit from doing that DMing.

 

[TwoSix]

No. I said several months ago I wasn’t going to buy the new PHB if they chose not to use the book to introduce mostly new subclasses. Since their choosing to waste the space with unnecessary revisions of existing subclasses, I have no need for the book.

 

[tetrasodium]

Maybe, I don't know yet. The playtest packets have been almost exclusively player focused, even the gm facing stuff seems either a deliberate miss or was missing the other half needed to complete targeting of a gm "pain point".

As a GM I've yet to see anything worth shelling out money for, To be completely honest that's largely because I'm no more impacted by packets [1-4] &6 than a couple extra subclasses & magic items would cause. By extension that has a pretty massive impact on if my players do.