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.

 

[Zaukrie]

I love how they blur the sample pages sometimes, cracks me up.

 

[Shardstone]

The art alone is worth the new book. I would pay just an art book that contains these pieces, so to get a bunch of rules with them is just a bonus for me.

I think the backwards compatibility argument is nonsensical if you examine it at all. If it was truly 100% backwards compatible, you are just paying for a change in layout + new art. They have also maintained from day 1 that backwards compatible means you can use adventures from the last 10 years with the new PHB. Let's be reasonable here.

On top of that, look at A5E. A lot of people in this thread love A5E, which claims to be backwards compatible. Yet its a way bigger rules shift than 2024 PHB. Seriously, the moment you examine the "backwards compatibility" argument, it evaporates. It has no logic to it, and thus no merit.

 

[Baumi]

Interesting Backgrounds are fixed. The Design-your-own Background ist now in the DMG instead of the Default from the Playtest.

What I never understood is why the just drop the Ability Score improvents and increase the base points/default array. That would be much easier.

 

[overgeeked]

I suppose a better example would using AD&D Magic Spells.

Me: "I cast Moldvay's Basic edition Sleep."
DM: "Okay what's the save?"
Me: "No save, they are just asleep. I proceed to instantly slay them via Moldvay Basic rules, no need for any rolls."

There are some rough edges here and there, but you can easily play multiple editions at the same time.

 

[Horwath]

PHB Interiors from Amazon



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weapons designs are again terrible,

could they get like one person that had more than 27 seconds of HEMA training to tell them that swords, axes and hammers do not look like that. Or a professor of medieval history?

 

[Weiley31]

I wonder if we'll get an arcane fighting style. Or perhaps UA fighting styles that didn't make it in before or updated versions for like Tunnel Fighter/Mariner.

 

[Zaukrie]

I eagerly await the DMSGUILD PDFs with dozens more backgrounds......dozens more....

 

[Retreater]

The first video was a good hype promo, but I want to see more of a delve in how they "glowed up" the game.
I suppose I could wait for the new SRD.

 

[Zaukrie]

The first video was a good hype promo, but I want to see more of a delve in how they "glowed up" the game.
I suppose I could wait for the new SRD.

There are already more videos....that go into much more detail.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

weapons designs are again terrible,

could they get like one person that had more than 27 seconds of HEMA training to tell them that swords, axes and hammers do not look like that. Or a professor of medieval history?

I don't think d&d wants to be historically correct there...

I have seen original weapons and I can honestly say: for d&d I prefer the fantasy ones.