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.

 

[Nadan]

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Let's do a quick counting of species we know will be inside : human, elf, dwarf, halfing, gnome, dragonborn, tiefling, aasimar, goliath, orc. It is 10 already. Looks like no more half-elf/orc then.

 

[DarkCrisis]

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.

I mean, you can use AD&D magic items in 5E games. Nothing really stops you.

 

[KYRON45]

And why would you when the new stuff is new and shiny…sorry, “glowed up”…and everything is better and more powerful now.

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.

Who in their right mind would ever believe that the revision wasn't replacing the thing its revising? Can you use the old stuff...sure. Why? Because that gives people something to complain about. Like we were lacking things for people to complain about.

 

[Zaukrie]

I mean, you can use AD&D magic items in 5E games. Nothing really stops you.

except it isn't the same rules chasis.....sure.

It's the same game, just like ToV is the same 5e game. Some differences, yes. And those that actually play 5e will use the new versions, because their better/improved/fixed. As one would hope they'd do over time.

 

[Osgood]

I think some people were always just waiting to pounce on compatibility because it means different things to different people. I always assumed that the backward compatibility meant that you could more or less use adventures form the past 10 years with the new rules--just insert new versions of monsters, spells, magic items, etc. But others expected compatibility means everything would be seamless and you could interchangeably use every rule and mechanic from any book.

And of course some figured they could use this to exploit the system to their advantage (Oh, we are fighting goblins? Well I insist you use the 2014 goblins because while they have a higher AC, they have few hit points… what's that, they are led by a bugbear? Well we demand you use the 2024 bugbear because its attacks are weaker. Don't worry team, my 2014 Melf's acid arrow paired with 2024 mage armor should make this fight go smoothly!).

 

[TwoSix]

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.

Yea, definitely no surprise here. My position hasn't changed in the past year; there isn't enough innovation here to be worth the purchase for me. (Three new subclasses? Three!) If some of my players at my 5e tables want to use characters using some 2024 material, that's fine by me. It doesn't appear that any rules are actually changing besides some character creation options, so it can all just go in the option pile along with my large collection of 3pp.

If you're heavily invested in the official/D&D Beyond ecosystem this is probably a noticeable change, but I have to say it's nice to be finally be out of the "upgrade" loop.

 

[MockingBird]

The important bit, for me anyways, is that all the adventures I have bought are still usable. I feel like that aspect is getting glossed over. WotC has said that from the beginning.

 

[Kurotowa]

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."

The Revised Core books are the errata.

 

[Weiley31]

I LOVE how mural like it looks.

 

[bedir than]

PS2 games were compatible on my PS3. That didn't mean I could mix and match Assassin's Creed 1 with AC: 3

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.