The 2024 rules give your turn twelve named actions. Seven are old friends: Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide and Ready. Five are new or renamed: Influence, Study, Search, Utilize and Magic. They cover the things players did all along (talk someone round, remember a fact, look for a trap, pull a lever, cast a spell), and now each one…
The Ruins of Castle Greyhawk comes to D&D Beyond in November 2026: four adventures for levels 5 to 10 from Baldman Games, built on the 2024 rules, "featuring the iconic three towers and the dungeons beneath them" [1]. It is the fifth published go at a dungeon Gary Gygax started under his own house rules in 1972, and the owlbear's…
Two kittens in the picture above. The ginger one is mid-leap, claws out. The tabby has its head on the floor. It looks like a fight. It isn't. In ten seconds the tabby leaps and the ginger one rolls over. Every D&D table plays at fighting. Characters argue, steal from each other, insult the paladin's god. Most of it is…
In 2014, Inspiration gave you Advantage. You had to say so before you rolled, and if the die came up 19 anyway, you had spent it for nothing. So players sat on it, waiting for a moment that deserved it. The 2024 rules rename it Heroic Inspiration and turn it into a reroll. You roll, you look at the die,…
The 2014 rules called them races. The 2024 rules call them species, and the change is more than the name. A 2014 dwarf got +2 Constitution and walked at 25 feet. A 2024 dwarf gets no ability score increase at all, walks at 30 feet, and sees twice as far in the dark. The free System Reference Document 5.2.1 [1]…
Legends of Greyhawk: Heralds of the Old One comes to D&D Beyond in October 2026: three adventures for levels 5 to 10 from Baldman Games, set in the Land of Iuz and the Horned Society. The Ruins of Castle Greyhawk follows in November with four more. Both run in the Legends of Greyhawk organized play campaign, or as one-shots at…
The Magus class for D&D 2024 (5.5e) lands on D&D Beyond on 29 September 2026. It is a sword-and-spell class from Sterling Vermin: 22 pages, one class, six subclasses and 31 spells, already sold as a $15 PDF on the publisher's own store. On D&D Beyond it is partnered content, so it plugs straight into the character builder. Rohan read…
In the 2014 rules a greatsword and a maul were the same weapon with different paint: 2d6 damage, Heavy, Two-Handed. In the 2024 rules they play differently. The greatsword Grazes: it hurts even when it misses. The maul Topples: it knocks the target flat. That difference is weapon mastery, the biggest change the 2024 Player's Handbook made to martial characters,…
