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

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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[Oofta]

I feel like the argument in favor of racial ASI fails either way you cut it. If racial ASI are mechanically powerful features that help define the character, they're incredibly limiting to what classes a PC of a given race can effectively play and should be removed to give players more freedom. If racial ASI are minor traits that are drowned out by assigning/rolling your ability scores, then all they are is a nuisance for bookkeeping and it doesn't matter if they're removed because it's the other traits that are what matters.

Some people, like me, liked playing against type now and then. Dwarven wizard is obvious but I also had a half-orc monk, an Elven strength based paladin* and so on. Sometimes I played to the racial strengths, sometimes I didn't. Heck, I had a friend with a Dwarven sorcerer in 3.5 when they got a -2 penalty to charisma and no significant benefits. Because it can be fun to play the oddball.

The writing is on the wall for the generification of species, personally I think it's kind of too bad. But, the king is dead, long live the king and all that.

* they died quickly of course because all my Elven PCs die quickly.

 

[Remathilis]

I see we have left the martials vs casters part of the debate and found ourselves in racial ASI. Like the 24 PHB, we're playing all the hits.

 

[Umbran]

I must have missed a post where you actually made an argument. My apologies for that.

Mod Note:
Your digs are not nearly so witty or cool as to justify their existence... or your continued participation in the discussion.

So, maybe leave the digs out next time. Thanks.

 

[TwoSix]

I see we have left the martials vs casters part of the debate and found ourselves in racial ASI. Like the 24 PHB, we're playing all the hits.

"As the length of a ENWorld thread increases, the chance that it mentions disassociated mechanics tends towards 100%."

 

[Aldarc]

"As the length of a ENWorld thread increases, the chance that it mentions disassociated mechanics tends towards 100%."

Oh. It's time to rehash the Edition Wars.

 

[Shardstone]

Has this thread talked about the Sorcerer yet?

 

[Hussar]

Oh. It's time to rehash the Edition Wars.

I thought we already did that once. Or was that in the other thread?

 

[Corinnguard]

"As the length of a ENWorld thread increases, the chance that it mentions disassociated mechanics tends towards 100%."

An EN World thread is like a river, it meanders all over the place, branches off into tributaries and reconnects further downstream. No straight and narrow canals.

 

[Maxperson]

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.

If it's replacing one of the base PHB subclasses, I would guess Arcane Trickster. I doubt that they will take what is primarily a mundane class and give two out of three subclasses magic by removing Assassin.

 

[Clint_L]

Some people, like me, liked playing against type now and then. Dwarven wizard is obvious but I also had a half-orc monk, an Elven strength based paladin* and so on. Sometimes I played to the racial strengths, sometimes I didn't. Heck, I had a friend with a Dwarven sorcerer in 3.5 when they got a -2 penalty to charisma and no significant benefits. Because it can be fun to play the oddball.

The writing is on the wall for the generification of species, personally I think it's kind of too bad. But, the king is dead, long live the king and all that.

* they died quickly of course because all my Elven PCs die quickly.

I don’t understand the problem. You can still play a Dwarven sorcerer and give them suboptimal charisma if you want. You’re just not forced to. You have more options, not less.