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.

 

[Remathilis]

How about 1 page.

There is plenty of art showing combat. It's PG-13, but I'm sure you can find lots of art that's R rated from other sources instead.

 

[Scribe]

There is plenty of art showing combat. It's PG-13, but I'm sure you can find lots of art that's R rated from other sources instead.

What I quoted is very far away from "R rated" lol

 

[David R. Murrell]

On the vaguely ridiculous idea that no one ever had apprentices, squires or raised monsters. I have had one character, a very LN fighter, who after accepting the surrender of the goblin, decided to train him as his squire. Because he was obviously a goblin, he was made to wear a sack over his head when in town. Another character, a CN wizard has been trying to hatch a dragon egg for ages, keeping it safe and warm, because he wants a dragon. By the way that's just two of my characters, I quite often have kept pets, had servants and companions (including Nigel who was the butler for my necromancer).

Now I have only been playing for the last 40 years, and the GM for both characters only GMing for again about 40 years. I guess us kids, just don't understand the gritty nature of the game. I mean i did start playing when I was 10, in 1984, so that might explain it, they really shouldn't have tried to make D&D appeal to children. What ever next a cartoon, with a small unicorn that one of the characters decides to keep as a pet!!!!

 

[Parmandur]

On the vaguely ridiculous idea that no one ever had apprentices, squires or raised monsters. I have had one character, a very LN fighter, who after accepting the surrender of the goblin, decided to train him as his squire. Because he was obviously a goblin, he was made to wear a sack over his head when in town. Another character, a CN wizard has been trying to hatch a dragon egg for ages, keeping it safe and warm, because he wants a dragon. By the way that's just two of my characters, I quite often have kept pets, had servants and companions (including Nigel who was the butler for my necromancer).

Now I have only been playing for the last 40 years, and the GM for both characters only GMing for again about 40 years. I guess us kids, just don't understand the gritty nature of the game. I mean i did start playing when I was 10, in 1984, so that might explain it, they really shouldn't have tried to make D&D appeal to children. What ever next a cartoon, with a small unicorn that one of the characters decides to keep as a pet!!!!

50 year olds these days.

Why, back in my day, 50 year olds were born in the 1940s! None of this 1970s nonsense.

 

[Cadence]

On the vaguely ridiculous idea that no one ever had apprentices, squires or raised monsters. I have had one character, a very LN fighter, who after accepting the surrender of the goblin, decided to train him as his squire. Because he was obviously a goblin, he was made to wear a sack over his head when in town. Another character, a CN wizard has been trying to hatch a dragon egg for ages, keeping it safe and warm, because he wants a dragon. By the way that's just two of my characters, I quite often have kept pets, had servants and companions (including Nigel who was the butler for my necromancer).

Now I have only been playing for the last 40 years, and the GM for both characters only GMing for again about 40 years. I guess us kids, just don't understand the gritty nature of the game. I mean i did start playing when I was 10, in 1984, so that might explain it, they really shouldn't have tried to make D&D appeal to children. What ever next a cartoon, with a small unicorn that one of the characters decides to keep as a pet!!!!

Had a character who had to find and hire folks to train and look after the street urchin they adopted...

 

[Hussar]

50 year olds these days.

Why, back in my day, 50 year olds were born in the 1940s! None of the 1970s nonsense.

Sigh, back in my day, a 50 year old was born in the 20's. :sad:

 

[Kurotowa]

There is plenty of art showing combat. It's PG-13, but I'm sure you can find lots of art that's R rated from other sources instead.

It's not a matter of rating. Of the female players I know, having chainmail bikinis in the book would be a major disincentive to buy for many of them. Not all, but many. Horny 14 year old boys (in body or in spirit) are competing with them for setting the tone, and it's clear who's winning.

 

[mamba]

It's not a matter of rating. Of the female players I know, having chainmail bikinis in the book would be a major disincentive to buy for many of them.

I was about to joke that that is ok, we have AI to generate those images now, but then they probably do not....

EDIT: decided to give it a try and got 'Your image generations are not displayed because we detected unsafe content in the images based on our content policy' when using 'chainmail bikini', once I removed 'chainmail' it was fine

 

[Remathilis]

It's not a matter of rating. Of the female players I know, having chainmail bikinis in the book would be a major disincentive to buy for many of them. Not all, but many. Horny 14 year old boys (in body or in spirit) are competing with them for setting the tone, and it's clear who's winning.

D&D art has been fairly tame for many years now. I see no reason for that to change. People making a big deal about this are just looking for another outrage to get mad about.

 

[Asisreo]

As one who just finished scrubbing down the bathroom, I would like to know what my XP reward is.

Best I can do for you is heroic inspiration.