Dungeons and Dragons will get a significant rules update in 2024. Today, during the “Future of D&D Panel” at D&D Celebration, a board of the D&D configuration group’s top figures reported that Wizards of the Coast was intending to release new versions of the center Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks in 2024 for the game’s 50th anniversary.
While declaring the new items, specialists Jeremy Crawford, Chris Perkins, Liz Schuh, and Ray Winninger specifically didn’t allude to the books as the opening shot of a new “edition” of the game. Truth be told, they noticed that the new center rulebooks would be in reverse viable with existing Fifth Edition books and were “new evolution” of the game.
Many fans are comparing the declaration with the release of revised rules for Dungeons and Dragons Third Edition back in 2003. These rules (known as 3.5 by fans) rebalanced existing rules however were generally minor in scope, with many principles totally untouched.
The current Fifth Edition ruleset of Dungeons and Dragons has been around since 2014, which implies that players will have utilized the game’s rules for 10 years when the new “evolution” comes out. That is generally tantamount to the time span that past D&D editions were in active use.
Progressed Dungeons and Dragons saw its Player’s Handbook delivered in 1978 and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Second Edition turned out in 1989. Prisons and Dragons Third Edition had its Player’s Handbook released in 2000. D&D fourth Edition began in 2008 and went on until the arrival of Fifth Edition in 2014.
The Future of D&D panel likewise teased the release of two “classic” settings in 2022 and a third “classic” setting on the schedule for 2023. Likewise planned are more adventure anthologies and a book featuring Boo, the miniature giant space hamster featured in the Baldur’s Gate series of games.
D&D is likewise planning streamlining some of its monster statblocks, with spellcasters getting a significant design revision to make them simpler for DMs to utilize.