D&D's Most Controversial 2024 Player’s Handbook Change Is Actually One Of Its Best

The upcoming 2024 for is filled with exciting gameplay additions and changes that revolutionize old mechanics. Having years of development from its early access edition of One D&D, Wizards of the Coast is incorporating fan feedback to hopefully make the best update to yet. Aimed at both new and veteran players alike, the 2024 plans to be more accessible while adding new detailed mechanics at the same time.

Without removing any core elements from the game, this update acts as a companion to the ever-popular fifth edition of, featuring full backward compatibility. Beingthe largest change to a in history and practically a whole new edition of the game, it makes sense that long-time players may have a mixed reception to it at first. But there's one mechanic in the 2024 that, despite its controversial reception, opens up a whole new path of roleplay options and character customization.

One of the biggest changes to the 2024 is races being changed to species, with species no longer offering racial stat bonuses. Players will get their additional ability score modifiers from their background instead, making the player's choice all the more vitalwhen creating a character. With this change, character backgrounds are becoming more important than ever, with a focus on a character's life path over their origin.

Racial benefits have always been a somewhat limiting factor to class creativity.

An aspect of that always gets players the most excited about a new session is thinking about all the interesting characters they could bring to life. Despite all the possibilities for character species and class combinations, racial benefits have always been a somewhat limiting factor to class creativity. There's nothing stopping players from making an orc wizard or an elvish barbarian, but with the old system, they missed out on valuable stat bonuses that discouraged players from trying more unique combinations for storytelling.

The only thing being removed from species in the new is the