D&D (2024) Have the 2024 PHB Reveals changed your intentions re: purchasing D&D 2024/25?

[briggart]

Voted "Undecided". Given our pace, I don't expect our current campaign will be over before end 2025, and I was not planning to buy it before late next year, if at all. The reveals did not change my plan.

 

[Parmandur]

The vague possibly false hope there will be any actual improvements worth the effort to bring into my games, and a long-standing philosophical preference for running games--especially if I open my tables to new players--that are in print.

I would refer you to Treantmonks first video from yesterday: as a reference tool at the table, this is a pretty big improvement, and wordings if the rules are more efficient and tight.

 

[Charlaquin]

I had been planning to get it and still am. But I’m going to stay mad about the ranger class and the stealth rules being terrible.

 

[prabe]

I would refer you to Treantmonks first video from yesterday: as a reference tool at the table, this is a pretty big improvement, and wordings if the rules are more efficient and tight.

A) I don't like watching videos, especially for things like this--I read so quickly that reading is practically always quicker for me; and B) nothing I've seen from the new book is really an improvement.

 

[Parmandur]

A) I don't like watching videos, especially for things like this--I read so quickly that reading is practically always quicker for me; and B) nothing I've seen from the new book is really an improvement.

OK, he does a pretty good job of keying I'm on the changes to the rules themselves, aside from Class retrofits which most of the press has been about.

 

[Remathilis]

As of this post, 50% of the responses were going to buy this and still will, but the comments are majority negative/no. I'm sure that's called a reverse ratio and explains the current state of conversation in D&D circles.

 

[vagabundo]

Undecided. I don't think there are enough changes here to make me enthusiastic about running 5e.

My current schedule is to run Temple of Elemental Evil in 2025 for my group and I've had a request from a player to use 5.5e for this, so I might just have to bite the bullet and make it work.

 

[Arilyn]

As of this post, 50% of the responses were going to buy this and still will, but the comments are majority negative/no. I'm sure that's called a reverse ratio and explains the current state of conversation in D&D circles.

And plain old human nature. We are more likely to contact a business over bad service or products than reach out over good service. I called a store to praise one of their clerks and there was genuine surprise and gratitude. They were geared up for a complaint.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Just a quick poll. There is lots of information on the PHB out ther enow. Have those revelations altered your intentions?

Not really. I'm leaning slightly towards getting it but I might just borrow it via Beyond from one of my DM friends who will inevitably get it - but I guess if they don't in the first couple of weeks I probably will, so one of us has it, or I might just because I want to look at the pretty pictures or w/e lol. The reveals have shown that despite improvements, there's nothing mindblowing and some serious missteps like the lack of background customization (which is absolutely clinically insane design when they say that to use 2014 backgrounds, just pick whatever stats, skills, feat you want, as was recently revealed!).

I do think overall it's a better direction for 5E (especially re: art amounts!), but it's not like, a resoundingly better one.

I'm actually kind of more interested to see the DMG and the MM in a lot of ways.

 

[dave2008]

I'm actually kind of more interested to see the DMG and the MM in a lot of ways.

I have been more interested in those since the beginning!