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D&D Studio Update: 2024 Core Rule Books and Survey Results (www.youtube.com)
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Update video about the upcoming revision for 2024 Some highlights:

  • Fully backwards compatible with 2014+ D&D books
  • Can have a 2014 character next to a 2024 character at the same table/game
  • Most of the classes/changes theyre keeping have high approval ratings
  • Fey warlock has something like 89% approval rate
  • All major class changes/revisions have been/will be in UA before release
  • There will still be minor changes (spells, other class changes, etc.) outside of that which won't be
  • Probably will be previews next year
  • The three new books will the largest version the game has ever had (close to 1000 pages combined)
  • treasure is different (and will be noted in the MM)
  • There will be more common magic items
  • "there should be more ways to engage with high level play, and we can address that" - not sure what this will mean, but noteworthy statement
  • world tree barbarian is in, brawler is out
  • 9 of the 12 classes are moving forward, with just the druid, monk, and barbarian needing revisions
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[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Appreciate the summary!

+10/-5 feats being removed/reworked will drastically shake up the meta for martial classes

Thank goodness. Those feats made certain martial classes crazy good at the early levels with variant human.

Baking in the Tasha's changes should help rangers hopefully.

And ya, calling a lot of the optional features in Tasha's optional when they were supposed to be straight up fixes for existing issues isn't great. It'll be annoying having to get used to a bunch of new rules but the changes do sound exciting now lol.

But too bad about the spells. The fact that wizards can replace a bunch of other classes at later levels has always been kind of an issue, or easily solve an encounter unless as a DM you were aware of the effect the most powerful spells have (like Forcecage or Wall of Force), has probably ruined many a campaign story.