New D&D Player’s Handbook flips character creation on its head
Backstory is more important than ever, says lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford
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The 2024 rules revisions for D&D Fifth Edition (5E) comes alongside a fundamental rethink of how Dungeons & Dragons players make their characters in the bestselling roleplaying game.
We’ve known for a couple of years now that the D&D brand wasmoving away from the problematic term ‘race’and embracing a more neutral ‘species’ for the many fantastical creatures – elves, dwarves, tieflings – that you can play in the game. And since 2020’s …
