D&D (2024) More D&D 2024 Tidbits: Aasimar, Goliaths, Town-Eating Gelatinous Cubes

Here are a few more tidbits from Game Informer's magazine coverage of the new edition's rulebooks.

• Iconic characters like Bobby the Barbarian, or Raistlin and Caramon Majere feature in the art.
• Each class and each subclass has its own piece of art.
• Species now include Aasimar, Goliath, and Orc.
• Bastions are in--player built bases.
• Greyhawk is the sample setting in the Dungeon Master's Guide.
• Each book is 384 pages.

Monster Manual

• 75 new monsters in the Monster Manual; over 500 in total.
• Challenge rating remains the same.
• There are some new lower challenge vampires, and a higher challenge one called the Nightbringer.
• Blob of Annihilation is a gelatinous cube that can eat towns.
• Elemental Juggernaut, Archhag.

 

[Morrus]

I'm sure Crawford said they were gonna fix this?

I dunno what to tell you.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I'm sure Crawford said they were gonna fix this?

I think they said challenge ratings for existing monsters were going to stay the same, but that they'd be reworking the monster statblocks to bring them more in line with the ratings they have, where needed.

 

[Yaarel]

I hope they fixed some of the issues with Bastions as seen in the playtest.

The main critique seems to be, the Bastions didnt integrate well enough with the normal economy, as seen in the Equipment section of the Players Handbook.

If the Bastions are part of the Players Handbook now, it might be the low level characters can do things like own shops, and live in homes. A kind of normal "bastion". Then later at higher tiers, the special benefits come from do this.

 

[bedir than]

I hope they fixed some of the issues with Bastions as seen in the playtest.

The main critique seems to be, the Bastions didnt integrate well enough with the normal economy, as seen in the Equipment section of the Players Handbook.

If the Bastions are part of the Players Handbook now, it might be the low level characters can do things like own shops, and live in homes. A kind of normal "bastion". Then later at higher tiers, the special benefits come from do this.

I don't think they indicated that Bastions are in PHB '24

 

[Yaarel]

I don't think they indicated that Bastions are in PHB '24

The original post of this thread mentions it. It is in the news from Game Informer.

 

[Nikosandros]

I don't think they indicated that Bastions are in PHB '24

The article says that bastions will be included as player bases.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I'm sure Crawford said they were gonna fix this?

The Challenge Rating for each monster will be the same. So a CR 12 monster is still going to be CR 12, but they are all being rebalanced to more accurately match those CRs.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

The original post of this thread mentions it. It is in the news from Game Informer.

In the DMG the article says.

 

[Parmandur]

The article says that bastions will be included as player bases.

In the DMG.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

The original post of this thread mentions it. It is in the news from Game Informer.

Says Bastions are in the '24 core rules, not that they're in the PHB.

Seems more likely to be an optional system in the DMG to me.