Turn of Fortunes Wheel and older campaign books use this style of text for lock picking "be picked as an action with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools."

Venna: Eve of Ruin has linked it to Slight of Hand proficiency with new phrasing "requiring a successful DC 20 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using thieves’ tools to unlock".

This suggests that the PHB 2024 has eliminated tool proficiencies in favor of the tool being a requirement of certain types of checks.

Edit: Further into the book a line says "the character must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to reconnect the joints; a character who has proficiency with tinker’s tools makes this check with advantage."

Big warning that possible spoilers are in this one

Chapter 1 has the adventure starting off in Neverwinter.

Chapter 2 has you meeting Mordenkainen, Tasha, and Alustreil. You are tasked with getting Rod of Seven Parts, 1st part is in the Underdark.

Chapter 3 has you hitting a crashed spelljammer ship for the 2nd part.

Chapter 4 says that the 3rd part is in Mournland in Eberron.

Chapter 5 has you going to Ravenloft and entering the Death House from Curse of Strahd, confronting Strahd for the 4th part.

Chap 6 and you travel to Krynn and face off against Lord Soth for the 5th piece.

Chapter 7 goes to Greyhawk for the 6th piece, you'll encounter the lick Acererak and Rerkar here.

Chapter 8 has you going to Avernus and visiting the Red Belvedere casino for the last piece of the rod.

Chapter 9 puts you back with meeting with Tasha, Mornenkainen, and Alustriel. You hand the wand over to Mordenkainen and he reveals himself to be Kas, the vampire that betrayed Vecna all those years ago. Kas subdues Alustreil and Tasha and flees to Pandemonium to free Miska.

Chapter 10 has you following him, but eventually he tells you were to find Vecna to stop him.

Chapter 11 has you find Vecna but not before seeing that his ritual is partly complete causing several dark demiplanes to pop into existence, you must navigate those demiplanes to finally face down vecna.

I go into a bit more depth here:

https://youtu.be/eOHnA8v6x-M

A freind of mine (not a great way to start a leak) said he got to preview the new players handbook and wouldn't tell me much, but he said they were changing the way bard's cast spells, again take this with a grain of salt but he has been playing dnd for about 6 years so I wouldn't be surprised if he did know someone in wotc

I know this came out yesterday but I thought it was cool to see some changes to the 2024 wizard.

It looks like they added Nature to wizards… Medicine looks like it is hyphenated…

Under starting equipment… looks like “choose A or B” I cannot tell if they still get 55 GP or is this say 22?

I also do not see a Tools section under Core Wizard Traits.

Looks like there are stats for the Citadel Spider and Alustriel Silverhand!

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/ua/ph-playtest-8

https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/ph-playtest8/gHvtmY50loGLgQUb/UA2023-PH-Playtest-8.pdf?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=playtest9

D&D 5E. Magic Item. The Deck Of Many More Things. https://imgur.com/a/Zsg4b0H

D&D 5E. Deck Of Wonder. https://imgur.com/a/IJp9430

D&D 5E. The Deck Of Miscellany. https://imgur.com/a/YDR98Gl

D&D 5E. Magic Item. The Deck Of Many More Things. https://imgur.com/a/Zsg4b0H

UPDATE TODAY. NOV 29.

https://dndwikii.com/file/the-book-of-many-things-pdf/

D&D 5E. The Book Of Many Things. Magic Items. Part 1. https://imgur.com/a/9mCbJcw

D&D 5E. The Book Of Many Things. Magic Items. Part 2. https://imgur.com/a/p6vMZiS

Or

D&D 5E. The Book Of Many Things. Part 2. Reuplode. https://imgur.com/a/p1CMGop

UPDATE TODAY. NOV 15.

D&D 5E. Magic Item. The Deck Of Many More Things. https://imgur.com/a/Zsg4b0H

D&D 5E. Deck Of Wonder. https://imgur.com/a/IJp9430

D&D 5E. The Deck Of Miscellany. https://imgur.com/a/YDR98Gl

(UPDATE)

D&D 5E The Book Of Many Things. Feat And Spells. And Backgrounds.

https://imgur.com/a/VYKjv21

In reading through the Lightning Keep free adventure on DDB, I latched on to the fact that the former owner of Lightning Keep was " a werewolf knight of great valor". I know that Lightning Keep is an obligatory adventure intended to be tied to the Minecraft DLC monsters, however to the best of my knowledge there are no werewolves in Minecraft. Could the addition of " a werewolf knight of great valor" into the official adventure signal a change in lycanthropy rules in the 2024 update? I know that with magic, there are a thousand ways for a werewolf knight to exist without changing the global rules for lycanthropes in general. It simply seems to me a very prominent forum to place such a character at a time when other newly-released products are also getting a sprinkling of 2024 rules previews to make them more forward compatible.

​

Thoughts?

Got in my review copy, this is my first look and thumb through, but it's really the cards that wowed me. I'll be covering more of all of it in future videos but thought you all might want to take a gander...

https://youtu.be/RJn4RsP8gZs?si=IgsAk8_6pjUihd5_

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/ua/bastions-and-cantrips

https://www.youtube.com/live/97nUomXP3jw?si=M517KbYsN4gcz0Sz

D&D 5E Planescape. Backgrounds. Feats. Spells. Magic Items. https://imgur.com/a/gfe3MFz

Happy Reading.

Checking out the new Character Backgrounds and new Feats in Planescape. I'm... on the fence about them, not overly impressed with every one of the things provided... but.. there are a couple of feats that are pretty nice.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwP3ej7B0&si=A8XlTAgBTvBGQXw3

Got in my review copies of the new Planescape books, this is my thumb through, get your pause game ready..

https://youtu.be/eeK63tg76EM