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A gold dragon faces down a band of adventurers, alongside an image of a green dragon looking down at small figures at its feet

More specifically, digital miniatures for Astarion and Karlach were shown off in Project Sigil.

In fact, it was pitched as a way to go on new adventures with them.

Naturally, this is just one option.

Digital models of Karlach, Astarion, and other adventurers stand in a dungeon in D&D Project Sigil

So at least your D&D content should play nicely together.

When the system does eventually come out, it’ll be available on PC, mobile, and consoles.

Actually, every single monster from the 2014 MM has been revisited and given something new here.

A two-page spread of a dragon in the new Monster Manual

So you’re going to see more mages, more priests, whole new NPC groups.

If you ever needed ready-made pirates, we now have a whole section of pirates.

These NPCs have also been organized in with the rest of the monsters.

A band of adventurers surrounded by a horde of skeletons

Monster ‘families’ have been given a boost too.

OK, so I’m kidding about it being a crucial development.

But the reason behind the change tickled me.

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That kind of streamlining is very much par for the course with these new rulebooks.

And that is going off on adventures and doing cool stuff."

“This setting is complete,” he says.

An armored woman with a shield casts a spell from her outstretched hand as other adventurers fight monsters in the background, all taken from D&D artwork in the 2024 Player’s Handbook

“It’s everything you should probably basically just pick it up and play it.

But it’s also been designed so that it is eminently customizable.

We chose Greyhawk for a number of reasons.

Greyhawk map displaying the city itself in a medieval style

One, this is [D&D’s] 50th anniversary.

And Greyhawk was the first published campaign setting.

And so [there’s] a little bit of nostalgia.

Dungeons & Dragons weapons from the 2024 Player’s Handbook

but also… one of the things we were struck by was how easy it is to customize.

It is actually, in its original incarnation, very bare bones.

Finally, another noteworthy change highlighted in the panel was the book’s 100+ pages of magic items.

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This includes loot tables which have been divided into thematically appropriate sections like ‘religious artifacts.’

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