Dungeons & Dragons’ 2024 core rulebooks get official release dates

Dungeons & Dragons three new “revised” core rulebooks now have official release dates. Updated editions of the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual will drop periodically through the rest of 2024, with the final tome not arriving until early next year. According to a press release from publisher Wizards of the Coast, D&D’s updated ruleset for the 5th edition of its massively popular tabletop RPG won’t all drop at the same time. Instead, the company will lead with the Player’s Handbook on September 17th, followed by the Dungeon Master’s Guide on November 12th. The Monster Manual, which the designers previously said would be truly massive, won’t be ready for retail until February 18th, 2025. While players would likely prefer to have the updated rules all at once, Wizards of the Coast has slotted them into a release calendar stretching the entire year and sharing space with a new adventure supplement, an anthology and a hagiographic making-of the original D&D from the 1970s. This is all ostensibly part of the tabletop RPG’s 50th anniversary celebration, which takes place in 2024. Read more