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Further complicating an already complex launch calendar<\/p>\n
The 2024 revision<\/a> to the Dungeons & Dragons<\/a> Player\u2019s Handbook<\/em><\/a> will be out roughly six weeks earlier than anticipated, but only at the Gen Con<\/a> tabletop gaming convention and in extremely limited numbers. The announcement, made late last week, heaps on additional complexity to an already unconventional product launch<\/a> for publisher Wizards of the Coast.<\/p>\n First teased as \u201cOne D&D<\/a>\u201d in 2022, Wizards has pitched the revised version of 5th edition D&D as an upgrade to the core rules with loads of changes. It\u2019s also backwards compatible<\/a> with the rules first introduced in 2014. The first of three core rulebooks<\/a>, the Player\u2019s Handbook<\/em>, will still be releasing widely on Sept. 17 at places like Amazon. Local game stores will have physical copies available two weeks earlier, starting Sept. 3. That happens to be the same day the content unlocks digitally for those who pre-ordered direct from Wizards. But, in addition to that Sept. 3 soft launch, now Wizards says that roughly 3,000 copies will be available even earlier <\/em>on Aug. 1 for select attendees of Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/p>\n