D&D (2024) 2024 is out...and yet.....where are the threads?

[Morrus]

I can't think of a good reason why the books can't be shown now that the NDA is lifted and copies have been sold at GenCon. WotC gonna WotC I guess.

How do you mean, the books can’t be shown?

 

[MarkB]

Yeah, it's pretty weird too. WoTC gives the DnD Shorts Guy a copy of their new 2024 PHB so that he can look at it and post a YouTube review of it on August 1st. Which he does so in great detail. Then the review goes private.

What was WoTC expecting the DnD Shorts Guy to do? Give praise to all of the 'good' stuff that's in the new PHB and hide all of the 'bad' stuff from everybody? They should have known better.

They laid down some ground rules, which were basically you can show rules content but no direct screenshots from the book. Watch Treantmonk's videos and he has the relevant rules broken out into black-on-white text shots, retyped word-for-word. Since he already had a whole batch of videos queued up for when the NDA dropped, he clearly understood the rules well in advance, so there's no real excuse for others in the same position not to.

 

[Nijay]

How do you mean, the books can’t be shown?

I thought that's why videos were being taken down - something about showing the actual books, or the stat blocks in them.

 

[Reynard]

@SlyFlourish video deep dive is still up. I doubt there's a concerted effort to suppress the 2024 PHB by WotC or YouTube.

 

[Corinnguard]

They laid down some ground rules, which were basically you can show rules content but no direct screenshots from the book.

It was because of those direct screenshots that I started leaning toward getting the book. If he hadn't shown them, I would have been leaning the other way.

 

[MarkB]

It was because of those direct screenshots that I started leaning toward getting the book. If he hadn't shown them, I would have been leaning the other way.

I'd guess the sticking point was more likely the art than any of the rules content.

 

[Seramus]

Most of the content creators are doing small staggered releases I suspect this is to help with algorithms.

Yeah, Treantmonk has outright said he and a few other creators are intentionally staggering videos to feed the algorithm.

That said, anyone who wants to give the nice man $3 on Patreon can access 20 Treantmonk videos right now, with no commercials.

 

[Yaarel]

@SlyFlourish is a bit better.

His video hops around the bit, and he only looks at some places. But at least he lets you see the whole page, and he turns the page to give a sense of the section. It is enough that at least in places, there are things that I can see that are important to me, that he happens not to mention. For example, I was curious what the feat for the Scribe background is (Skilled). And I was curious about the narrative descriptions of the species. I got a chance to see this.

 

[Yaarel]

Yeah, Treantmonk has outright said he and a few other creators are intentionally staggering videos to feed the algorithm.

That said, anyone who wants to give the nice man $3 on Patreon can access 20 Treantmonk videos right now, with no commercials.

Heh, it really is like the Dead Sea Scroll hoarding was. It feels unethical.

Of all people, Treantmonk needs to worry about hoarding the content info the least, because even after I know the Players Handbook content, I will watch his videos anyway − precisely because of his analysis.

 

[Parmandur]

Heh, it really is like the Dead Sea Scroll hoarding was. It feels unethical.

Of all people, Treantmonk needs to worry about hoarding the content info the least, because even after I know the Players Handbook content, I will watch his videos anyway − precisely because of his analysis.

He is going to release it all, just on a Schedule for non-Patrons.