Player’s Handbook (2024)

Player's Handbook (2024) Cover

Release Date: Sep 17, 2024

This revised and expanded Player’s Handbook® contains rules for character creation and advancement, exploration, combat, equipment, spells, and much more. Create fantastic D&D® heroes from the wide selection of character origins, classes, and subclasses provided. Explore ancient ruins and deadly dungeons. Battle monsters while searching for legendary treasures. Gain experience and power as you trek across uncharted lands with your companions.

The 2024 Core Rulebooks provide new options for players and DMs along with updates and improvements to the classes, mechanics, items, and monsters of fifth edition. All updates are being done with care to make sure anything from fifth edition will continue to be fully playable.

The 2024 rules revisions are designed to be fully compatible with everything you’re playing today in fifth edition. In response to nearly a decade of fan feedback, the 2024 core rulebooks will offer players and DMs tons of new character options, spells, feats, monsters, items, and more in a fun, balanced, and accessible approach to playing DUNGEONS & DRAGONS.

Contents:

• The biggest Player’s Handbook in Dungeons & Dragons history, revised and expanded to reflect ten years of feedback from the D&D community.
• The perfect start to your D&D adventures, with updated learn to play and character creation sections.
• Expanded ways to create any character with twelve classes, 48 subclasses, and 10 species.
• Contains twelve class and 48 subclasses, revised and balanced to bring fun for every type of player.
• Customize your character’s origins with 10 species, 16 backgrounds, and 75 feats.
• Cover-to-cover brand new art and a refreshed look and feel make every page a joy to experience.
• An alphabetized Rules Glossary makes finding rules information a snap.
• Nearly 400 spells, including all-new additions to your arsenal.
• New Weapon Masteries that give players greater versatility in combat.
• New Tools & Crafting System that gives you new ways to utilize your tools and craft new items while adventuring.

Credits

Lead Designer: Jeremy Crawford

Designers: Christopher Perkins, Ben Petrisor, F. Wesley Schneider, Ray Winninger, James Wyatt

Rules Developers: Jeremy Crawford (lead), Makenzie De Armas, Ben Petrisor

Editors: Janica Carter (lead), Judy Bauer, Adrian Ng, F. Wesley Schneider

Playtest Analysts: Ron Lundeen (lead), Dan Dillon, Ben Petrisor, Patrick Renie

Art Directors: Emi Tanji (lead), Josh Herman

Graphic Designers: Matt Cole (lead), Trystan Falcone, Trish Yochum

Cover Illustrators: Wylie Beckert, Tyler Jacobson

Interior Illustrators: Rob Alexander, David Astruga, Helge C. Balzer, Luca Bancone, Eric Belisle, Olivier Bernard, Zoltan Boros, Michael Broussard, Ignatius Budi, Dmitry Burmak, Ekaterina Burmak, Pedro Cardoso, Kai Carpenter, Clint Cearley, Javier Charro, Jedd Chevrier, Billy Christian, Tuan Duong Chu, Conceptopolis, CoupleOfKooks, Justine Cruz, Daarken, Nikki Dawes, Jonas De Ro, Yuhong Ding, Aldo Dominguez, Olga Drebas, Tomas Duchek, Jesper Ejsing, Wayne England, Martina Fackova, Aurore Folny, Evyn Fong, Jessica Fong, Gaboleps, Caroline Gariba, Michele Giorgi, Igor Grechanyi, John Grello, Leesha Hannigan, Patrik Hell, Nathaniel Himawan, Alexandre Honoré, Ralph Horsley, Jane Katsubo, Jonathan Kuo, Katerina Ladon, Néstor Ossandón Leal, Linda Lithen, Titus Lunter, Erel Maatita, Randall Mackey, Erion Makuo, Antonio José Manzanedo, Andrew Mar, Raluca Marinescu, Marcela Medeiros, Julia Metzger, Alexander Mokhov, Caio Monteiro, Calder Moore, Riccardo Moscatello, Martin Mottet, Jodie Muir, David Auden Nash, Irina Nordsol, Hinchel Or, Hector Ortiz, Alejandro Pacheco, Mike Pape, Borja Pindado, Andrea Piparo, Polar Engine, April Prime, Noor Rahman, Chris Rallis, Joshua Raphael, Aaron J. Riley, Denman Rooke, Hocheol Ryu, Fabià Sans, Chris Seaman, Alditha Siregar, Bryan Sola, Craig J Spearing, Justin Sweet, Kamila Szutenberg, Wisnu Tan, Brian Valeza, Randy Vargas, Adam Vehige, Magali Villeneuve, Kenny Vo, Lauren Walsh, Joseph Weston, Campbell White, Richard Whitters, Daneen Wilkerson, Zuzanna Wuzyk, Lixin Yin

Concept Art Director: Josh Herman

Concept Artists: Even Amundsen, Carlo Arellano, Michael Broussard, John Grello, Tyler Jacobson, Alexander Ostrowski, 9B Collective, Noor Rahman

Consultants: Sarah Benjamin, Basheer Ghouse, Kayleigh Jones, James Mendez, Brian Powers, Pam Punzalan, Jason Schklar

Additional Consultation: Kyle Brink, Aaron Forsythe, Mark Heggen, Jay Jani, Chris Mooney, James Rose, Carl Sibley, Kale Stutzman

Producers: Dan Tovar (lead), Bill Benham, Siera Bruggeman, Robert Hawkey

Print Operations Engineer: Basil Hale, Scott West

Imaging Technicians: Daniel Corona, Meagan Kenreck, Kevin Yee

Prepress Specialist: Jefferson Dunlap

Includes revised content from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (2017) and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (2020)

Based on the Player’s Handbook (2014) designed by Jeremy Crawford (lead), Bruce R. Cordell, Tom LaPille, Peter Lee, Mike Mearls, Robert J. Schwalb, Rodney Thompson, James Wyatt

Building on the original game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and then developed by many others over the past 50 years