D&D (2024) 2024/5.2 - Release of Basic Rules?

[Raguile]

Wondering if there has been any announcement or clarification about this that I might have missed.
At or around the time of the PHB release will there be a Basic Rules update/new release too?

My thinking is the PHB may not contain every rule modification necessary to fully play 5.2 (in the absence of new DM and MM for a few months) so there would need to be some underlying base rules somewhere.

 

[overgeeked]

The only info we have is “after the core three are out.”

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The only info we have is “after the core three are out.”

Sounds like a New Starter Set for April 2025 to me!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Sounds like a New Starter Set for April 2025 to me!

D&D Starter Set, The Community Edition!

Six Seasons, a Movie, and a Starter Set.


....we will push the whole Chang/Drow thing down the memory hole.

 

[Parmandur]

I wouldn't bet on a PDF release like in 2014: yhe equivalent now will be the free portion on D&D Beyond.

 

[Chaltab]

The only info we have is “after the core three are out.”

Think that was the SRD. Don't recall anything said about a Basic Rules doc.

 

[Parmandur]

Think that was the SRD. Don't recall anything said about a Basic Rules doc.

Yeah, I suspect they won't do one, not with an SRD and Beyond having a free option.

 

[dave2008]

I wouldn't bet on a PDF release like in 2014: yhe equivalent now will be the free portion on D&D Beyond.

The most current Basic Rules PDF was released in 2018. Not sure if what is on Beyond has been updated further since the 2018 release.

 

[Parmandur]

The most current Basic Rules PDF was released in 2018. Not sure if what is on Beyond has been updated further since the 2018 release.

Most recent errata for the older PHB and DMG are from 2021, so yes.

 

[Yaarel]

I wouldn't bet on a PDF release like in 2014: yhe equivalent now will be the free portion on D&D Beyond.

Maybe the 5e 2024 SRD can merge with the Basic, hence be available as a document via the CC.