D&D In 2024 – Core Rules, Adventures, and More Coming this Year
As we stand on the precipice of the game’s 50th anniversary, here’s everything we know is coming for D&D in 2024.
D&D turns 50 this year, and how far the game has come since the humble days of a store in Lake Geneva. Now that it’s more popular than ever, WotC is hoping 2024 will be a big year for D&D. But what lies in store?
Well, we can’t know everything that lies in store. Few could have predicted WotC’s attempt to deauthorize the Open Gaming License. It swept both the industry and community into a fervor, resulting in the launch of a new open license and several new competitors. And with many jumping ship for other games, the year has got to be a good one to win back goodwill.
With all that in mind, here’s what we know is coming for D&D in 2024.
D&D In 2024
The year kicks off with a reminder of WotC’s 2023 with the physical release of the Deck of Many Things. The product was delayed owing to manufacturing defects that have, hopefully by now, been addressed. This boxed set is a pricey one, weighing in at around a hundred bucks. But it comes with the Book of Many Things and an actual card-based Deck of Many Things.
Not long after, D&D’s 2024 planned releases kick off with Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Described as “a distilled version of the classic Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth” meant to be played in a single session of play. This is a classic 64-page “tournament adventure” that comes complete with its own scorecard. It’s part of WotC’s plan to “celebrate play” in the coming year.
Then we have the new edition and the new adventure that comes along with it. Vecna: Eve of Ruin, a multiverse-hopping adventure that features characters from D&D that “haven’t yet been in 5th Edition.”
Alongside Vecna, or at least not long after, the big D&D 2024 Edition. This new core rulebook comes with all new art and updates that take the game from 5th Edition to something like 5.5. Or maybe 5.25, depending on how granular you want to get/how true WotC’s “no trust us, everything is totally backward compatible” turns out to actually be.
In the early Summer window is Quests from the Infinite Staircase. It’s another adventure anthology that, like Tales from the Yawning Portal, ports classic D&D adventures over into 5e.
Of course, that’s just the earliest part of the release schedule. If WotC accidentally leaked and then retracted release dates are to be believed, the September and November slots are wide open. Anything can happen in the latter part of the year.
For now, though, 2024 is shaping up to be a pretty big one for D&D.
