D&D (2024) D&D Player's Handbook: When YOU Can Get It!

The Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player's Handbook will be officially out in the wild on Thursday, August 1st, with the first for-sale copies available at Gen Con Indy. Here's when YOU can get it!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yeah, that's fair. Like I said, I don't think anyone (WotC included) thinks that it's ideal.

As an FLGS, I'm happy to get it early, but I'm a little (not a lot, but a bit) miffed that I'm still being scooped on it - it makes it much less of a perk - but I suppose that it's still a perk. Like Morrus says: First World problems.

From a business perspective, sub-dividing perks is a great way to push higher-priced options so people avoid the dreaded FOMO.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'm sure they would love for you to pre-order the digital version

Pre-ordering anything always feels like a scam to me.

 

[Valetudo]

I'm gonna grab it off amazon, probably for 50bucks.

 

[Valetudo]

Oh yeah sorry, I try not to preorder.

 

[JDR]

Pre-ordering anything always feels like a scam to me.

Indeed, I have no reason for pre-ordering. The digital dice and whatnot have absolutely no value to me.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

So thursday the embargo on reviews lift and we will be hit with the paid reviews. But with copies in the wild ar Gencon maybe we will get some real talk reviews pretty soon. I assume some folks will be playing it at Gencon as well.

Not that the reviews matters, I'm buying the books anyway. It's D&D, I'll buy it and play it then probably go back to B/X.

The reviewers we know of have not been paid by WotC.

 

[mellored]

I don't think WotC is paying anyone to do reviews. People are happy to do so for free.

(In fact, "paid reviews" generally isn't a thing anywhere, no matter what some subreddits may argue.)

Paid review generally isn't.

But selecting reviewers who rated your products positively in the past is. So there is still bias.

They aren't giving the PHB to Pathfinder YouTubers. Or the author of LevelUp.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Paid review generally isn't.

But selecting reviewers who rated your products positively in the past is. So there is still bias.

They aren't giving the PHB to Pathfinder YouTubers. Or the author of LevelUp.

Does anyone have thoughts on which of these reviewers is likely to be the least biased?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Paid review generally isn't.

But selecting reviewers who rated your products positively in the past is. So there is still bias.

They aren't giving the PHB to Pathfinder YouTubers. Or the author of LevelUp.

That's true.

But 1) I'm not sure there would be any surprises from Pathfinder YouTubers ("it's not as good as Pathfinder, guys!") and 2) this is just the first wave. We're going to have a ton of reviews from people who bought the book all on their own/with the help of YouTube/Twitch revenue soon enough.

I don't think we're going to be starved of frank reviews, even in this first wave, based on what the folks with the books have said so far.

 

[mellored]

Does anyone have thoughts on which of these reviewers is likely to be the least biased?

Ginny Di would be my guess.

She's running on cosplay as much as anything else, and dressing up as a mermaid works for Pathfinder or DC20 just as well as D&D.