D&D (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #1: "Everything You Need To Know!"

Each day this week, Wizards of the Coast will be releasing a new live-streamed preview video based on the upcoming Player's Handbook. The first is entitled Everything You Need To Know and you can watch it live below (or, if you missed it, you should be able to watch it from the start afterwards). The video focuses on weapon mastery and character origins.

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There will be new videos on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week, focusing on the Fighter, the Paladin, and the Barbarian, with (presumably) more in the coming weeks.

 

[darjr]

Top Amazon Result for: Player's Handbook 2024

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It’s not ranked yet. So it might not mean much.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I had a hard time listening to the first video because I was too busy looking at the art!

 

[Cadence]

My favorite is the final bullet for the Character Sheets...

 

[Cadence]

DMG screen art:

 

[DarkCrisis]

It was always an update to the core game system. Backwards compatibility means you should still be able to use older options with the new system, not that everything designed for the new system will work if you try running it using the old system.

In other words, the goal is something akin to being able to run a piece of software designed for Windows 95 on modern systems, not being able to run modern software on Windows 95.

Yea like 1E and 2E.

I’m not saying people can’t fit the square pegs into round holes all they want I’m simply saying via even WotCs mouth (who people always give a pass to “What he said and what he means….”) is only use the new stuff it’s barely compatible with the old and probably underpowered

 

[Blue]

I mean, the only people who are acting surprised Pikachu face are the ones who could not parse that a rules update was going to be broadly compatible but individual rules or options were going to need conversion.

It's not the surprised Pikachu face - few are actually surprised by it. It's vindication from all of those who had disbelief when they said "it's the same edition", now with them finally admitting "but core books for that edition will not be errata'd and no longer work, so really it is another edition even if we continue to mislead. Because it does not work with 5e."

Well, maybe there's people with surprised Pikachu face who in good faith bought books with character options in since this has been announced.

 

[Zaukrie]

If you pre-order on Beyond you get a free mini for the upcoming VTT. Not sure if anyone has spotted this yet.

oooooooh. Nice.

 

[Zaukrie]

So not backwards compatible in any real sense. It’s almost 3.5 all over again.

Except you can use the MM and magic items and the rules are the same......effectively. I don't get why we need to litigate this every thread.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Weapon Mastery video - not from the earlier 1-hour overview.

All of this correlates to what we have seen in the playtest documents. I didn't notice any changes compared to what was in PT 7.

 

[DarkCrisis]

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That’s good stuff