This article outlines what has changed between the 2014 and 2024 versions of the Player’s Handbook. For an update on changes to the D&D Beyond toolset, see the D&D Beyond changelog.

• Classes
• Origins
• Feats
• Equipment
• Spells
• Stat Blocks
• Rules
• New Terminology

Using This Book with Older Books

When you play D&D with the 2024 Player’s Handbook, it replaces all rules, classes, subclasses, spells, feats, equipment, species, and backgrounds in the 2014 version of the book. There are a few exceptions; the following options don’t appear in the 2024 book and are still usable from 2014:

• Knowledge Domain (Cleric subclass)
• Nature Domain (Cleric subclass)
• Tempest Domain (Cleric subclass)
• School of Conjuration (Wizard subclass)
• School of Enchantment (Wizard subclass)
• School of Necromancy (Wizard subclass)
• School of Transmutation (Wizard subclass)
• Half-Elf (species)
• Half-Orc (species)
• Dungeon Delver (feat)
• Linguist (feat)
• Martial Adept (feat)

Any subclass, spell, or feat from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything or Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything that appears in this book replaces the version that appears in the Everything book.

Classes

The 2024 Player’s Handbook includes twelve classes for player characters, and each class includes four subclasses.

New Subclass Names

The Updated Subclasses table lists new names for some subclasses.

^*First appeared in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

^†First appeared in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

Barbarian

The Barbarian class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Seven new class features and seven revised class features, which are listed in the Barbarian Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Barbarian subclasses include the following updates:

1. Path of the Berserker: Three revised features
2. Path of the Wild Heart: Three revised features
3. Path of the World Tree (New): Four new features
4. Path of the Zealot (New): Imported from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything with one new feature and three revised features

Bard

The Bard class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Revised spell list
• Two new class features and seven revised class features, which are listed in the Bard Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Bard subclasses include the following updates:

1. College of Dance (New): Four new features
2. College of Glamour (New): Imported from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything with one new feature and three revised features
3. College of Lore: Three revised features
4. College of Valor: Two revised features

Cleric

The Cleric class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised spell list
• Six new class features and four revised class features, which are listed in the Cleric Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Cleric subclasses include the following updates:

1. Life Domain: Three revised features
2. Light Domain: Five revised features
3. Trickery Domain: One new feature and four revised features
4. War Domain: Five revised features

Druid

The Druid class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Revised armor training
• Revised spell list
• Six new class features and six revised class features, which are listed in the Druid Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Druid subclasses include the following updates:

1. Circle of the Land: One new feature and four revised features
2. Circle of the Moon: Four new features and one revised feature
3. Circle of the Sea (New): Five new features
4. Circle of the Stars (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with one revised features

Fighter

The Fighter class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised skill proficiencies
• Six new class features and three revised class features, which are listed in the Fighter Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Fighter subclasses include the following updates:

1. Battle Master: Three revised features, four new maneuvers, and five revised maneuvers
2. Champion: One new feature and three revised features
3. Eldritch Knight: Two revised features
4. Psi Warrior (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with one revised feature

Monk

The Monk class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Seven new class features and eight revised class features, which are listed in the Monk Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Monk subclasses include the following updates:

1. Warrior of Mercy (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with one revised feature
2. Warrior of Shadow: One new feature and two revised features
3. Warrior of the Elements: Five new features
4. Warrior of the Open Hand: One new feature and three revised features

Paladin

The Paladin class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised spell list
• Six new class features and six revised class features, which are listed in the Paladin Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Paladin subclasses include the following updates:

1. Oath of Devotion: One new feature and four revised features
2. Oath of Glory (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with four revised features
3. Oath of the Ancients: Four revised features
4. Oath of Vengeance: Three revised features

Ranger

The Ranger class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised spell list
• Eight new class features and six revised class features, which are listed in the Ranger Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Ranger subclasses include the following updates:

1. Beastmaster: Three revised features
2. Fey Wanderer (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with one revised feature
3. Gloom Stalker (New): Imported from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything with four revised features
4. Hunter: Two new features and three revised features

Rogue

The Rogue class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Revised skill proficiencies
• Six new class features and five revised class features, which are listed in the Rogue Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Rogue subclasses include the following updates:

1. Arcane Trickster: Three revised features
2. Assassin: One new feature and three revised features
3. Soulknife (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with two revised features
4. Thief: Four revised features

Sorcerer

The Sorcerer class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Revised spell list
• Two new metamagic options and six revised metamagic options
• Four new class features and five revised class features, which are listed in the Sorcerer Class Features table
• A revised Wild Magic Surge table with new options

Subclass Changes

Sorcerer subclasses include the following updates:

1. Aberrant Sorcery (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with two revised features
2. Clockwork Sorcery (New): Imported from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything with two revised features
3. Draconic Sorcery: Two new features and three revised features
4. Wild Magic Sorcery: One new feature and three revised features

Warlock

The Warlock class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised spell list
• Ten new eldritch invocations and thirteen revised eldritch invocations
• Three new class features and four revised class features, which are listed in the Warlock Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Warlock subclasses include the following updates:

1. Archfey Patron: Two new features and three revised features
2. Celestial Patron (New): Imported from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything with four revised features
3. Fiend Patron: Five revised features
4. Great Old One Patron: Three new features and two revised features

Wizard

The Wizard class includes the following updates:

• Revised starting equipment
• Revised weapon proficiencies
• Revised skill proficiencies
• Revised spell list
• Four new class features and three revised class features, which are listed in the Wizard Class Features table

Subclass Changes

Wizard subclasses include the following updates:

1. Abjurer: One new feature and three revised features
2. Diviner: Two revised features
3. Evoker: Three revised features
4. Illusionist: Two new features and two revised features

Origins

The 2024 Player’s Handbook lists sixteen backgrounds and ten species for player characters, including the following new options:

Backgrounds

1. Farmer
2. Guard
3. Guide
4. Merchant
5. Scribe
6. Wayfarer

Languages

1. Common Sign Language

Species

1. Aasimar
2. Goliath
3. Orc

Feats

The 2024 Player’s Handbook contains seventy-five feats, including thirty-seven new feats and thirty-five revised feats. Feats are divided into four categories: Origin, General, Fighting Style, and Epic Boon.

Equipment

The 2024 Player’s Handbook provides the following changes to equipment:

• Two revised weapon properties: Heavy, Light
• Eight new weapon mastery properties: Cleave, Graze, Nick, Push, Sap, Slow, Topple, Vex
• Two new weapons and three revised weapons
• New crafting rules for nonmagical items, Potion of Healing, and Spell Scroll.
• New options for using all Artisan’s Tools when taking the Utilize option
• Revised adventuring gear, including three new items
• Descriptions for all items of adventuring gear

Spells

The 2024 Player’s Handbook provides 391 spells, including thirty new spells. The 2024 Spells table lists new, redesigned, and revised spells.

Stat Blocks

The 2024 Player’s Handbook includes an appendix of fifty-one stat blocks: twenty-one new stat blocks and twenty-six revised stat blocks. There are also three stat blocks for Rangers who can summon beast companions and twelve stat blocks related to spells.

Rules

The Rules Glossary in the 2024 Player’s Handbook explains the following new and revised rules:

New Rules

• Ally
• Attitude
• Bloodied
• Burning
• Curses
• D20 Test
• Dead
• Dehydration
• Emanation
• Enemy
• Expertise
• Friendly
• Hazard
• Hostile
• Illusions
• Indifferent
• Influence
• Magic (action)
• Magical Effect
• Malnutrition
• Object
• Occupied space
• Passive Perception
• Per day
• Possession
• Round down
• Shape-shifting
• Simultaneous effects
• Study
• Target
• Teleportation
• Unoccupied space

Revised Rules

• Area of effect
• Armor training
• Attack action
• Blindsight
• Breaking objects
• Cylinder
• Dash
• Difficult Terrain
• Exhaustion
• Falling
• Flying
• Grappled
• Grappling
• Help
• Heroic Inspiration
• Hide
• Improvised weapons
• Incapacitated
• Initiative
• Invisible
• Knocking out a creature
• Long Rest
• Monster
• Nonplayer Character
• Opportunity Attacks
• Petrified
• Proficiency
• Ready
• Search
• Short Rest
• Speed
• Stat block
• Stunned
• Suffocation
• Surprise
• Telepathy
• Tremorsense
• Unarmed Strike

New Terminology

The 2024 Player’s Handbook uses some new terms, as shown in the Updated Terminology Table.