![]() ![]() One of the many changes that have been made as they will not be making it a focus but a piece of the role creation. One of the biggest changes to the book is that Race will be eliminated from the language moving forward and has been changed to Species. ![]() Plus, every Class will come with new features, spells, weapons options, and a feat at the first level! They’ve changed a few things around, like adding some stuff to the Bard from classes such as the Wizards and others, but everything has now been balanced out so that every Class now has at least four subclass options available. This means if you were to utilize every single option at your disposal, you’d have nearly 83,000 different full-character options (82944, to be precise, and nearly $165k with split-classes, but that’s another topic) in a single book. The book comes with 12 Classes and 48 Subclasses immediately available for you to look up and play, with over 144 origins options to make unique characters. This book will be bigger and heftier than before, with more images, shortened text, and designed to be more appealing for first-time players. Going through each book as it is explained to us through a Q&A session, we’ll start with the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook. Sadly, that means we’ll probably have to say goodbye to our favorite hidden joke… Gaston. And as one last upgrade, much of the artwork in the main three books will be updated, including characters you’ll be familiar with. ![]() The key thing to remember is that the rules are coming up on being a decade old, one of the longest stretches in the franchise’s history without an update. Essentially, the team are taking all of the lessons they’ve learned from the past and making an effort to refine the game and make improvements, ensuring the content isn’t stagnant while giving it a quality-of-play upgrade. More effort on a show-and-tell aspect within the books to give players examples of what they can do. A good chunk of the changes are designed to help first-time players approach the game better and not be bogged down in items that they don’t care about immediately. New content will be added to the books for character expansions, such as Weapony Master properties and a change to Wildshape to make it easier to utilize. This includes now adding the ability to look things up in an alphabetical glossary for easier access and knowledge, so anyone at any skill level can find things easier. The primary goal of the 2024 Dungeons & Dragons Rules Update is to make the core books easier to navigate, both for current and new players. The 2024 rules are STILL 5th Edition and are compatible with all 5E content, with a conversion system in place when you get them to use on the older books, Including having old names for items cataloged for easy reference. The biggest thing to know about this change is that they are still continuing 5th Edition. You can choose to play 5th Edition with the 2014 rules or the 2024 rules it doesn’t matter much, like there are people still playing 3rd and 4th Edition. So those who were dooming over the idea that everything they own from the past decade is useless, the reality is they’re not. However, much like AD&D, if you already owned the original rules and guidebooks to D&D’s 2nd Edition, you could still play the game. This will be an entirely updated set of rules for old and new players who wish to get into the game in 2024, giving you an updated guide to the game. The best way for us to describe this to people is to think of it as when Advanced Dungeons & Dragons were introduced during 2nd Edition. Because even to us when the updated rules were announced, we were confused as hell, even with decades of playing this game under our belts. So let’s sum up what this is in the most basic terms. We already talked about everything they revealed about what’s coming in 2023, so today, we’re chatting about the new rules and what is happening to the three main books for the TTRPG. Two of the biggest subjects are what exactly is going on with the game following the OGL fallout and getting clarification on what’s happening with the updates happening in 2024. One of the biggest questions from last year’s Wizards of the Coast presentations is, “Why exactly does Dungeons & Dragons need new rules for 2024?” We were recently invited up to Seattle to participate in a special presentation where the people behind D&D chatted with media members about a myriad of topics. We do our best to give a simplified version of what Dungeons & Dragons will be doing with the 2024 Core Rules update. ![]()
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