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.

 

[KYRON45]

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

The games were compatible with the machine used to play them. It's not a fair comparison.

 

[Weiley31]

All I know is this: Any stuff that is a nerf to feature and what not will be ignored. And buffs or positive changes will be applied.

I've accepted whatever potential consequences this will lead to if I DM.

 

[Cadence]

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.

There are 12 figures on the DM screen (I need my reading glasses to decide what is what though from the art revealed).

 

[Baumi]

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.

Yes, seems to be exactly the same. Thats too bad there are some problematic things in it like sap which gives Enemies Disadvantage. So a Fighter or two can give a whole group Disadvantage .. that will result in some boring (and frustrating gameplay for the GM) fights where monsters just wiff every round..

I hope they will at least make topple not a save, because that will simply get annoying to make a save every time a warrior-type with a topple weapon hits an enemy.

That said, I like Weapon Specialisation as a mechanic and most types seem quite fun.

 

[Weiley31]

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

Up to a certain model. It stopped once Sony went past the 80GB PS3 model(and it was the worst mistake they ever did).

 

[Nadan]

There are 12 figures on the DM screen (I need my reading glasses to decide what is what though from the art revealed).

Extra two are a tiefling and a elf.

 

[Blue]

It was always an update to the core game system.

Are you not aware that WotC has insisted, time and time again, that it was the same edition? Saying "the 5e Core Rules don't work with it" is at a direct contradiction to that. There is no honest way to claim that it has "always" been an update to the core system, since those in the best know claimed otherwise.

Many of us strongly suspected that they were misleading the public, be it in a quest to not have sales drop off after the announcement or for some other reason, but this is the first actual confirmation that the earlier books will not get errata, which is how you update within the same edition. We've seen it, like them publishing the Triton several times and then going back and errata'ing every one of those books when they added Darkvision to them.

 

[Cadence]

PHB Interiors from Amazon

 

[Parmandur]

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.

Some weird takes on this here: what they were saying was that taking a 2024 book character to a pure 2014 game would have issues like Weapon Masteries lacking a referent in the rulebook. So, sure it can be mixed and matched. Get a grip, y'all, this is what they have been saying for years.

And, older supplements are getting errata: if you look at the Beyond pahe for any 5E book now, the content it lists all Racial options as "Species."

 

[Zaukrie]

I give up. So tedious. Every thread.