Dungeons & Dragons celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, an anniversary that was almost scarred by scandal, greed and irate customers. Wizards of the Coast had to walk back plans last year to tighten control on the brand and restrict third-party developers. The new-for-2024 D&D Player’s Handbook arrives in the wake of this — is a half-centennial birthday celebration and a newly revised rulebook enough for people to forgive and forget?
Gen Con 2024 is a couple weeks away, and it’s at this event that WOTC will premiere the D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook, with the first-ever copies to go on sale. These editions will be branded with a commemorative “Gen Con 2024” bookplate and only 3,000 will be sold.
You’ll be able to find the 2024 Player’s Handbook at Lucas Oil Stadium, Northwest Concourse, in a shared sales area with a promotion for USPS D&D Stamps (if you didn’t know that would be a thing, you do now). The book will only be sold at specific times, on August 1 from 3 PM to 6 PM and August 2/3/4 from 9 AM to 12 PM. The price will be the same as the regular edition — $49.99.
“The energy at Gen Con is always electric. Being able to put copies of the 2024 Player’s Handbook, fresh from the printer, directly into players’ hands on the floor of the convention is something truly special,” said Jess Lanzillo, VP of D&D Franchise and Product at Wizards of the Coast. “We can’t wait to see the excitement as our fans dive into the possibilities contained within!”
If you can’t attend Gen Con, you can wait one more month….the 2024 D&D Player’s Handbook officially goes on sale September 17. You can preorder it through the D&D Beyond website.
