D&D (2024) 3,000 Player's Handbooks Available At Gen Con

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At Gen Con (August 1-4), there will be 3,000 copies of the Player's Handbook available. These copies will include a gold foil D&D logo and a commemorative bookplate.

RENTON, WA – July 18, 2024 – It’s a banner year for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS! Coming off the acclaimed film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and the smash hit video game Baldur’s Gate 3, D&D is celebrating 50 years of the WORLD’S GREATEST ROLEPLAYING GAME. More than 64 million D&D fans love rolling dice, slaying monsters, and envisioning themselves as the amazing heroes they all are inside. This year at Gen Con 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS will be debuting the 2024 Player’s Handbook making D&D more accessible than ever before. Wizards is bringing 3,000 copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook hot off the presses to Gen Con 2024 – each of which features the 50th anniversary logo in gold foil, along with a commemorative "Gen Con 2024" bookplate making it even more exclusive and distinguishing it from other first-run copies.

"The energy at Gen Con is always electric. Being able to put copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook, fresh from the printer, directly into players' hands on the floor of the convention is something truly special,” said Jess Lanzillo, VP of D&D Franchise and Product at Wizards of the Coast. “We can't wait to see the excitement as our fans dive into the possibilities contained within!”

The Player’s Handbook goes on sale everywhere on September 17, 2024, and fans can pre-order the D&D Beyond Digital edition and/or bundlenow for character sheet bonuses: 10 frames, 5 backdrops, and 12 digital dice sets—one for each class!

Pre-order the core rulebooks bundle now on the D&D Beyond Marketplace to receive the Dragons of D&D digital art book, D&D BEYOND Gold Digital Dice set, and a 50th anniversary digital Gold Dragon mini in the upcoming 3D sandbox. Fans will learn how to sign up for the closed beta at Gen Con!

How to Purchase the First Publicly Available 2024 Player’s Handbooks

Gen Con attendees will be the first fans to have an opportunity to purchase the 2024 Player’s Handbook. Here’s how:

Where to Buy

The 2024 Player's Handbook will be available at Lucas Oil Stadium, Northwest Concourse. It will be in a shared sales area with the USPS D&D Stamps.

Sales Dates

August 1: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
August 2/3/4: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Pricing

The 2024 Player’s Handbook is $49.99 plus tax. Credit card sales (Discover, Mastercard, Visa) only.

At 7:00 AM EDT on each sales day, tickets to reserve an opportunity to purchase will be released in the Gen Con event ticketing system as an event. The event will be listed as a free ticket and will be titled “D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook Early Release Sale.” A Gen Con attendee may claim one digital ticket for that day, subject to availability. The digital ticket serves as your access to purchase for that day only.

Once you have your digital ticket, you will show up at the sales location during the sales hours listed for that day. Sales will not be processed outside of those hours. You must be in line by the end of the sales window to ensure you are able to purchase for that day.

Rules and Restrictions

Only one digital ticket will be redeemable per person per day. Upon redemption, we may issue a wristband to denote that you have been checked in for your purchase, even while in line - this means you no longer need to show your digital ticket. There will be no sales to non-ticket holders (e.g., no "walk ups"). One book per redeemed ticket only; all sales are final.
 

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I expressed zero rage and I'm not on any crusade.

The OGL situation will continue to be mentioned, even by people who are ride-or-die WotC superfans.

It's not something that just gets mentioned by the people who go nuts whenever they think of WotC. (I have a lot those people on ignore, for the record, along with their counterparts.)

I was trying to help you out, since this subject appears to make you upset. But you do you.
I'm not upset at all and it may not seem like it but I appreciate your input on the matter.
Now i'm going to go play 4e and drink my last few cans of New Coke. ;)
 

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They're doing so knowingly and should have been better organised. It's not a wild expectation that they might have had enough copies. The only valid excuse is that the planning might date back to the covid time when it wasn't clear whether Gen Con would be happening or not. If that's the case, I can't fault WotC. They couldn't be expected to know when the pandemic would end.
WotC was still collecting data for the PHB and making final decisions as recently as a few months ago. I can assure you that getting a book like this printed is not an overnight thing, and companies don't sit on stock if they can help it. This book wasn't nearly far enough along to make any plans for it "back in Covid times;" I think the main issue here is that you don't understand the logistics involved in getting 3000 copies a month ahead of what already looks like a very tight print schedule.
 

I'm not upset at all and it may not seem like it but I appreciate your input on the matter.
Now i'm going to go play 4e and drink my last few cans of New Coke. ;)
It's always funny. You say that you don't care about the proposed OGL change, it's always "Why are you so upset bro?" Especially when I dare to say things like "I'm just tired of hearing about something that was never implemented." I'm not upset. I'm bored and I get tired of it being brought up ad-nauseum. Kind of like that old girlfriend that used to remind me of a mistake long, long ago that I already apologized for and I thought it was water under the bridge. 🤷‍♂️
 

Yep. Until a major publisher like WotC makes a concerted, multi-year effort to make tabletop gaming a thing at one of these other conventions, it's impossible to prove there's a market there.

I do know that Comic-Con attendees tend to throw around a lot of money. A $50 PHB isn't terribly high-priced compared to a lot of other limited releases available each year in San Diego (and which, frankly, offer far less value -- my wife has a $50 A-Team van Hot Wheels, still in its original box that we bought for ... reasons).
Purely anecdotal, but the six people I know that go to ComiCon, only one is a D&D player. I used to live in SoCal, so I knew four that would always try to go. And I have a friend (from a distant state) who goes every year he gets a ticket. He's a D&D player (well he used to, just hasn't found a group in years), and he brings his wife, who is not a D&D player.
 

Actually, I was never one of those who harboured ill feelings towards WotC even during the OGL debacle. As someone who focuses almost entirely on WotC content, what was going on in the third party world wasn't very salient. I wasn't very aware of what was going on.
Then you might be the exception here.
I agree, he is the exception here. But, in the normal world, no one really cared about the OGL debacle. My school's D&D club, most of the players at my table, my old groups in Chicago. One or two people out of all those cared. The others didn't even raise an eyebrow when told.

The reason I think there was such a response from WotC is that they understand it is a communal game. It needs people to teach others how to play. It needs people to organize playtime like clubs, small conventions, local gaming stores, and home groups. In effect, it needs salespeople. And many of those people salespeople are people like us on these forums. That is the reason they responded.
 

I agree, he is the exception here.
Ok. Maybe it did not carried well what I meant with this statement. I did not meant this statement when I called him an exception.
But, in the normal world, no one really cared about the OGL debacle. My school's D&D club, most of the players at my table, my old groups in Chicago. One or two people out of all those cared. The others didn't even raise an eyebrow when told.
Same here.
The reason I think there was such a response from WotC is that they understand it is a communal game. It needs people to teach others how to play. It needs people to organize playtime like clubs, small conventions, local gaming stores, and home groups. In effect, it needs salespeople. And many of those people salespeople are people like us on these forums. That is the reason they responded.
Probably.
 

Hasbro's been very open about moving D&D from tabletop to digital. So the 3k release makes sense: sprinkle the community with a limited offering to maintain interest but behind the curtain keep working on the digital edition.

IMO, this new update/edition will probably be the last collection of physical books we see from WotC.
 

Hasbro's been very open about moving D&D from tabletop to digital. So the 3k release makes sense: sprinkle the community with a limited offering to maintain interest but behind the curtain keep working on the digital edition.

IMO, this new update/edition will probably be the last collection of physical books we see from WotC.

They are providing digital tools. They've stated that they will continue to publish books for the foreseeable future. I see no reason they would lie, the cost of printing a book is relatively minimal compared to the cost of development.

It's possible that at some point printing a book may not be profitable for any publisher, I see no reason for it to be any time soon. I really don't get why people keep repeating this.
 

Hasbro's been very open about moving D&D from tabletop to digital. So the 3k release makes sense: sprinkle the community with a limited offering to maintain interest but behind the curtain keep working on the digital edition.

IMO, this new update/edition will probably be the last collection of physical books we see from WotC.
More conspiracy theory. I cast invisibility.
 

Hasbro's been very open about moving D&D from tabletop to digital. So the 3k release makes sense: sprinkle the community with a limited offering to maintain interest but behind the curtain keep working on the digital edition.

IMO, this new update/edition will probably be the last collection of physical books we see from WotC.
Im okay with that. I plan on continuing to run 5e for a long time (been playing since 1e). Id be sad, but Id keep using the books I have.
 

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