Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Good. More news, more news. Anyone else got some news? I've got a couple of bits of D&D news. Yeah, yeah.

Should we talk about some D&D then?

There's only bad news. Is it good and bad? Okay. One of them isn't great. The other one is just neutral, I think. neutral and bad let's start with neutral okay let's go on the sliding scale so neutral so next week on August the 27th that is next week isn't it that is next week on a Tuesday what is it today I don't even know what it is today Thursday It is next week. Okay. It's Tuesday then. Okay.

On Tuesday. Okay. There's going to be an event called D&D Direct. They did this last year, I think. It's an official live streamed event.

Taking place at 9am PDT, which is 5pm for us. Mm-hmm. And they're going to talk about two things. Well, they're going to look at the Player's Handbook, which is kind of out now, so I think people know what's in there. But for those that haven't seen the Player's Handbook, they're going to look at that. But they're going to talk about the future of Dungeons & Dragons.

And they're going to talk about the Project Sigil and or Sigil 3D virtual tabletop. Ooh. Which is going to be unveiled very, very soon, I think.

Yeah, yeah. We saw them using it.

But the beta itself is coming soon. So what they say, so for the future of D&D, they say they'll be unveiling an outline for the future of D&D, the 2024 core rulebooks, and what awaits your heroes in addition to those core rulebooks. So I guess we're going to hear about some more releases later.

I like Owlbear Rodeo.

It's just really simple.

I've seen bits of it. I didn't sit and watch the entire thing because it was long.

It's basically a stage actual play in a theater. Oh. It was at Gen Con. They're playing the 2024 core rules. Okay. And then for the first half, they do it the traditional way, just, you know, they're sitting around and rolling dice and using books and pens and paper. Then the second half, they bring out laptops.

I assume that must be your adventure then, I guess.

Yeah, they say it's coming soon. There isn't a date yet, but they say it's coming soon.

I haven't. I just wouldn't have the time, to be honest.

Okay, well, the less well-received news, shall I say, shall I put it like that? Yes. That's what most put it. The more discussed news is how D&D Beyond is going to be implementing the 2024 rules and how it will handle access to the 2014 rules. Wow. So they basically posted a roadmap. Is that the right word term? Yeah. Something like that.

Yeah. About what they're going to be doing. Yes. So the short version is you will still be able to access the 2014 basic rules and core rule books if you have them. So they won't disappear from your library if you have them. Yeah. And you will still be able to make characters using the 2014 player's handbook.

And existing homebrew content won't be impacted. So that's kind of the three good things. So the 2014 rules will be marked with a legacy badge. But the only things that are going to be staying there with this legacy badge are classes, subclasses, species, background, feats, and monsters. So, no spells. Yeah.

Well, unless they accidentally missed that out, but it seems unlikely that they did. So there's a few bits and pieces that aren't included, which basically means if you're playing a 2014 game using a 2014 character, using a legacy class and subclass and species, but things like your spells and certain other elements of the game that aren't in that list. Yes. are still going to be updated.

Whether you want to or not. On your character sheet. Your spell's going to change.