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.

 

[Horwath]

I don't think d&d wants to be historically correct there...

I have seen original weapons and I can honestly say: for d&d I prefer the fantasy ones.

design can be fantasy one, but dimensions should be fixed in reality.

warhammer looks like 30+ Kg lump of useless iron.

No one under 30 STR can fight with that.

 

[Scribe]

And now the video's out: Nothing on the half-elf/orc at all, or mixed-ancestry characters in general.

Oh well, I wasnt going to be playing core 5.5.2024.Revision anyway. Someone will fill the gap for Wizards.

 

[Yaarel]

Wow, it only took them ten years to catch up with the community?

The book is sure going to be pretty. Going to have to go back over the Xanthar crafting rules, but I thought we already had crafting rules?

These will be core rules for crafting, thus a fundamental aspect of almost every game.

 

[Parmandur]

And now the video's out: Nothing on the half-elf/orc at all, or mixed-ancestry characters in general.

Probably nothing much to say.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

weapons designs are again terrible,

could they get like one person that had more than 27 seconds of HEMA training to tell them that swords, axes and hammers do not look like that. Or a professor of medieval history?

I'm not playing a medieval game. I'm playing a fantasy game. With fantasy art.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Gnomes making a Warforged? Works for me!

Shield Guardian actually.

 

[Mirrorrorrim]

The thing I learned most is that the first syllable in aasimar is "ah". (I assume this means I don't watch enough videos).

Awesome-ar.

 

[DarkCrisis]

And now the video's out: Nothing on the half-elf/orc at all, or mixed-ancestry characters in general.

I bet they pop up in an expansion book for $50

 

[Yaarel]

Can the Inspiration reroll help casters by imposing a reroll on a target successful save?

 

[Weiley31]

@Whizbang Dustyboots - if you go to the actual video it scrolls up and down a little...

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Gnomes making a Warforged? Works for me!

Wait wait hold on with what I just said: I like it. THAT'S how I'll explain Warforged in the Forgotten Realms. They were made of Gondian design by the Rock Gnomes as protectors and for everyday common use. Which is important for Gnomes, especially after their enslavement by the Fomorians of the Feywild.