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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9486338" data-attributes="member: 277">Players Handbook 2024 reviewTLDR, a new edition with the marketing lying about not being a new edition. Being an old gamer, and remembering the changes between all the editions. This is a new edition like the change between 1E and 2E. Just enough where players will get confused if they don’t remember which book they read from. And yes you can still play the 2014 adventures with little headache but this was true back when the 2E rules came out.At 384 pages it is only 94 pages shorter than the 3 books of the original Advance Dungeons and Dragons first edition pages. The layout out is great. The art work varies from okay, good, great, and oh my gawd I only have one shade of paint.Chapter 1 is totally great for new people.Chapter 2 is great too. It is written for totally new people. Minor grip on the languages changes. Thumbs up for the Standard Array by Class. But Multiclass Spell caster chart on page 45 has me going hmm.Chapter 3 is where the major changes start. All subclasses now only get their abilities at level three. This is a great change if you are going to programing software. The good thing is spell lists for the class are in the class section. Each subclass gets one page of information if the art was properly cropped.Chapter 4 Backgrounds just moves the deck chairs around. Where in 2014 races excuse me species gave stat bumps, now your background gives you stat bumps. And now humans just get an extra feat for being human. So instead of people choosing a species to be the best build for class x, it is now going to be background y is the best build to for class x. Gripe there more art that substance in this part of the chapter.Species again changes because why not. The good part is one page one race. Gripe in just fifty years Orcs go from green pig nose (see Return of Jedi guards) to grey skin Spanish elf eared fang dudes.Chapter 5 Feats are now mandatory. And occasionally level locked. Some help with role playing; the others are just dice play options.Chapter 6 rewrites the equipment lists with the additional complication of weapon mastery where you can now do damage on a miss using the graze property. The pictures of weapons and armour are nice. Tools get a light update with expanded definition on how to use or craft items with them. Some light crafting rules for equipment, healing potions, and spell scrolls are included but not much detail.Chapter 7 Spells has some major, minor, and editing changes. An addition spell type Emanation is added but not explained to page 366. The major change is one spell per turn if it uses a spell slot.Appendix A The multiverse is one page and one picture with a very light description of the planes. This continues WOTC tradition of showing lore to the door.Appendix B Creature Stat Blocks give a look at what the monster manual stat blocks will be like. They just tighten up the description block.Appendix C Rules Glossary is a welcome needed addition.Index is great as only few cases of See something else. Everything else points to the page needed.Problems. There are already day one errata on the electronic version. So somehow updates were needed even before it went to press, and the print copy was not delayed.Final thoughts. Get someone to buy you the first printing copy and wait till the second printing has all the current errata before laying down your hard earn cash.</blockquote>

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