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.

​

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.

 

[mellored]

Sounds like they walked back the freeform Background rules a bit. They're talking about them a lot more as if they were fixed packages, although ones with some choices involved. Not sure how I feel about that, or if freeform is still an official option.

I imagine there will still be a "custom background" option.

And it will be really easy to homebrew one if there isn't.

 

[Weiley31]

Can't mix and match character options with 2014 options. But you can play 2014 and 2024 characters in the same campaign.

Crawford and the gang gonna HATE my table then.

 

[mellored]

Crawford and the gang gonna HATE my table then.

He's not going to hate homebrew.

And there is probably some generic advice for porting something like a Fathomless warlock over.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I want it all. Right now.

GIMME, GIMME.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Not neccesarily: per the Beyond pre-order page, the new PHB has 51 Monster stst blocks.

They didn't mention a specific CR cut off, but they did say in the video that they ran out of room to include high level forms, so eventually a higher level Moon Druid is going to have to go snooping in the MM.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Same thing we said with 3.0. The more things change ...

but it's not a .5 edition... just something that replaces...

 

[mellored]

That is my sense as well.
I caught a screenshot of the Noble background, which I think gives a good idea of how they are structured.

• background gives ASI (either +2/+1)

+1/+1/+1 is also an option.

 

[Maenalis]

This might be related:

 

[Baumi]

It doesn't seem to have big changes from the UA. Brought nearly everything over like the new Backgrounds, Bastions,..

But I hoper there have been finetuning, especially with Bastions which was very unfinished (too complex,m strange rules, not balanced..)

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm not holding my breath on bastions being fixed like I want, but I'm not sure how much that matters.

Five starter adventures? Did I read that right? Let's hope they are not all about goblins....