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.

 

[Blue]

We've gotten glimpses of possibilities from UA mostly for the PHB, and byt the last few they seemed to be focusing in on what the majority was looking for from a revision perspective.

Here's good info on the MM and DMG, and I'm excited for these changes as well. Example dungeons so new hobbyists can leap right in without buying anything outside the core books is great, really lowers the barrier of entry if you aren't joining an existing group. Information about creating a setting, and using Greyhawk with enough information to run it, hits on several cylinders.

With more videos promised I bet we get even more teasers about these other books. Looking forward to it.

 

[rooneg]

I personally would love for someone to explain to me how a Wizard has less complexity than a Warlock.

I mean, the Warlock class has a lot of fiddly moving parts, the Wizard's complexity is all in the spells. I don't know that I totally agree with the argument that Wizard is less complex, but I could at least see the sort of argument someone would make for it.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Okay so it listed overview, Weapon Master, and Origins seperately because they are seperate videos. Now barely touching upon origins in tje Overview video makes sense.

Yeah, it was mentioned in the YouTube chat that we're getting three more videos today, one of which is presumably the Weapon Mastery video linked above.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Needs more polearms.

Someone is channeling Gary's spirit!

(But I do like how they are illustrating all the weapons).

 

[Zaukrie]

Watching the video.....they actually planned out all three books at once....as ONE BIG BOOK that is too big to put in one book. Which has not always felt true, IMO, in the past.

 

[Zaukrie]

They wanted to put more psionics in in 2014, but couldn't....but I wonder what psionics means, really, other than a bit of fluff?

 

[bedir than]

I personally would love for someone to explain to me how a Wizard has less complexity than a Warlock.

I think it's about Tier 1 choices.
Wizard just picks a subclass and spells
Warlock picks a subclass, a pact, invocations and spells.

 

[Blue]

Been following along all throughout the playtest, so yes, I am well aware of what WotC has said on the matter.

They're giving the 5e system an update. That's what they were always doing, and what they've always claimed they were doing. It's still 5e and they're designing it in such a way that older options (and in particular, adventures) should still be compatible (albeit with a bit of tweaking, perhaps), but the expectation has always been that most people will upgrade to the new system and that everything they publish moving forward will likewise be designed to use it.

Edition has a specific meaning in the context of RPGs, and has been used since TSR times and across the industry. A new set of core books that invalidate the previous core books does not match that definition of "same edition". We have an established term, establish by the very company publishing this, for what they did. A half edition. Like 3ed to 3.5.

We've just been boggled by the fact that they weren't honest that was what they were doing. It fits the definition. But... do sales drop off, especially of new material, when a new edition is announces? We saw that with 3.5 to 4e and 4e to 5e. I don't know if that's why they haven't used the proper terminology for the change, but the terminology that they did use - it's the same edition - is not upheld by what they did. This is not industry usage of "the same edition".

Again, we all knew that it was an update. If it's truly "5e:, then like every other 5e book that came out you can mix and match. You can't. And again, the problem isn't that you can't, the problem is that they have been insisting by their choice of terms that you can.

 

[Nadan]

I think it's about Tier 1 choices.
Wizard just picks a subclass and spells
Warlock picks a subclass, a pact, invocations and spells.

I think is more like when wizard prepare a spell they don't like they can just change it out after a long rest; warlock they need to stick with the spells and invocations until level up, or beg DM let them change it.

 

[Weiley31]

PS1 games run on the PS2.

And all models of the PS3 can play PS1 games too.