D&D Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (2024)

The one book everyone at the table quietly wants their own copy of.

You are about to become someone else for a few hours a week — a soldier who talks their way out of more fights than they finish, a wizard with a discipline problem, a cleric whose god has become increasingly difficult to read. This is the book that turns that idea into a character sheet, and then into someone your friends will still be quoting in four years.

The 2024 revision keeps everything compatible with the fifth edition material already on your shelf, then quietly fixes the parts that had started to grate. Weapon mastery gives fighters and rogues something to decide on their turn rather than just a number to roll. Backgrounds now hand out a feat at first level, so your character arrives as a person instead of a stat block. Twelve classes, forty-eight subclasses, ten species, a substantially rewritten spell list, and 384 hardcover pages reorganised so that you can actually find the grappling rules while four people watch you look for them.

Perfect for: The person who has been borrowing somebody else's copy for two years and has recently started referring to it as "ours".

3–6 players | Ongoing campaign | Age 12+