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.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Yeah, this worries me as well. I'm hoping that the free-form is still there in the front, and they just focused on the part that is easier to talk about and show art for.

Guidelines for creating custom (i.e. freeform) backgrounds are in the DMG.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Yeah, this worries me as well. I'm hoping that the free-form is still there in the front, and they just focused on the part that is easier to talk about and show art for.

Rules are in the DMG.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Do we know if the Blade Pact is in the PHB?

Why wouldn't it be? It's been in every Warlock playtest packet.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

SO
MUCH
AWESOME
ART!!!

I love how magic is very prevalent in the art. They showcase fantasy civilizations populated by magical races embracing magic as part of their structure and cultures. And it doesn't look like it is all magitech, which I appreciate.

 

[KYRON45]

Yes, as long as the home brew is positives without conditions or consequences or downside. That was my point.

My point was that warlocks are all about conditions and consequences. You've never made a deal with a devil, fey or great old one have you?

 

[mamba]

Are you not aware that WotC has insisted, time and time again, that it was the same edition?

I am aware

this is the first actual confirmation that the earlier books will not get errata,

was anyone seriously expecting that?

which is how you update within the same edition.

sounds like it is the same edition still, even according to you…

 

[overgeeked]

My point was that warlocks are all about conditions and consequences. You've never made a deal with a devil, fey or great old one have you?

In the fiction, yes. But unless you can point to a sentence or paragraph specifically detailing those things, you will have players arguing with you and rage quitting games if you try to impose them.

 

[overgeeked]

The previews are going to be on these channels, plus Treantmonk and a few others. About half of them already have new videos up.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1747-where-to-find-2024-players-handbook-previews

 

[EzekielRaiden]

was anyone seriously expecting that?

Probably not.

sounds like it is the same edition still, even according to you…

It is as much the same edition as 3.5e was the same edition as 3e. You can still use all the old adventures, but class design has been altered in various ways, new monsters work somewhat differently, the spell list has been slightly overhauled, and a couple core mechanics (e.g. advantage) work differently but not radically so. The expectation is that prior rules will be left behind. They can be brought forward, albeit with a meaningful effort of conversion, but there is little reason to do so in most cases unless you just have to have a subclass that hasn't been updated yet or the like.

 

[KYRON45]

In the fiction, yes. But unless you can point to a sentence or paragraph specifically detailing those things, you will have players arguing with you and rage quitting games if you try to impose them.

I wouldn't game with people that didn't choose fun over specific details. Were telling stories about hero's saving the day and stealing mountains of gold from monsters who no doubt earned it legally. Let go from time to time and loosen up on the specific details.