New D&D Player\u2019s Handbook has the most subclasses of any book \u2013 but there\u2019s a catch Wizards of the Coast\/Evyn FongThe new Dungeons & Dragons Player\u2019s Handbook is going to have more subclasses than any other official book, but some classic ones didn\u2019t make the cut. The original D&D 5E Player\u2019s Handbook from 2014 had subclass options heavily skewed in favor of the Cleric and Wizard. While all the other classes received 2 or 3 subclasses, the Cleric had 7, and the Wizard had 8. The new D&D Player\u2019s Handbook that\u2019s being released on September 17 will give characters far more options, as it will include brand new subclasses, as well as revamped versions of established ones, like the psionic subclasses from Tasha\u2019s Cauldron of Everything. Dexerto recently attended a press preview for the upcoming D&D core rulebooks, where Lead Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford revealed that the new Player\u2019s Handbook will have 48 subclasses, more than any other book released so far. There\u2019s a catch, however, as some of the subclasses that appeared in the 2014 Player\u2019s Handbook won\u2019t be returning. These are the Knowledge, Nature, and Tempest Domains for the Cleric and the Conjuration, Enchantment, Necromancy, and Transmutation Schools for the Wizard. This change aligns all classes in terms of subclass options. In the 2024 Player\u2019s Handbook, as all of them now has exactly four options to choose from. \u201cIn our effort to give all of our classes a nice selection of options and that meant giving every class four subclass options,\u201d Crawford said, \u201cSimply because of the limits of page space, it meant that the Wizard and Cleric who had way more subclass options in 2014 than the other classes had to give up a few of their subclasses at least in this book.\u201d Some of the most popular Cleric and Wizard subclasses are gone, but they should return in the future. The new iteration of the D&D rules will receive more sourcebooks in the future, so these cut subclasses will be reprinted with all new abilities. It\u2019s a shame that players who want to bring over established characters who already use those subclasses will have to wait for their updated versions. However, the new Player\u2019s Handbook not only reworks those classes but adds and revamps over 200 spells, so there is plenty of fresh content for older spellcasting heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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