{"id":186081,"date":"2024-06-26T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=186081"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:16:12","slug":"dnd-2024-phb-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/26\/dnd-2024-phb-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the D&#038;D 2024 Player&#8217;s Handbook release date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost 50 years in the making but now the first book in the newest trilogy of <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> rulebooks, formerly titled <em>One D&amp;D<\/em> (or informally <em>D&amp;D 6e<\/em>), the <em>2024 Player&#8217;s Handbook<\/em>\u00a0is releasing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dndbeyond.com\/posts\/1660-dungeons-dragons-turns-50-see-how-were-celebrating#2024-book-releases\">September 17, 2024<\/a><\/strong>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.dndbeyond.com\/category\/3709000?pid=DB3709000\">pre-orders already underway<\/a>. The base price for pre-ordering the physical edition is $49.99, and the digital edition is $29.99, but you can get the digital edition for $10 if you buy both (select the digital + physical bundle or just add the physical edition to the cart first). You can also pre-order a <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.dndbeyond.com\/category\/core-rulebook-bundle\">bundle of all three upcoming 2024<\/a> physical manuals and digital editions for $180, or just physical or digital bundles for less.<\/p>\n<p>The revised <em>PHB<\/em>\u00a0promises a better table of contents and index pages for at-a-glance reference in the heat of battle &#8212; though personally, in a lot of those instances I&#8217;d rather go with a digital edition and search it up that way. There are a ton of new options for things like weapons and feats in this book, so it will likely serve just as invaluable a reference book as its predecessors. Of course, then I don&#8217;t get the pleasure of idly paging through all that phenomenal new art, which might be technically min-maxing.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>PHB<\/em> serves as a guide geared specifically to players, featuring updated rules for character creation with a larger focus on your character&#8217;s background rather than race (which are now called species). All of the classes have gotten a glam up, and the book features <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/21\/dnd-players-handbook-2024-subclasses\/\">four subclasses for each<\/a>, including a few new subclasses and many heavily revised subclasses \u2014 though you can still use old subclasses in the new system, at least with a bit of tinkering. And while the Artificer class isn&#8217;t in the new <em>PHB<\/em>, you can play 2014 characters alongside 2024 characters. We&#8217;d conjecture that many of those slightly older faves may feel underpowered due to the nature of power creep, but sometimes the vibes are just worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost 50 years in the making but now the first book in the newest trilogy of Dungeons &amp; Dragons rulebooks, formerly titled One D&amp;D (or informally D&amp;D 6e), the 2024 Player&#8217;s Handbook\u00a0is releasing September 17, 2024, with pre-orders already underway. The base price for pre-ordering the physical edition is $49.99, and the digital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":186206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60354,325,60355],"tags":[78608,48418,78624,78626,34110,78625,48422],"yst_prominent_words":[8585,11003,56407,8340,11873,29078,32079,59446],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186243,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186081\/revisions\/186243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186081"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=186081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}