When do these happen? Will it be Friday?
When is the next actual update?
I think that the only way to be sure is to constantly spam download the Basic PDF every few minutes, all day, every day and check it each time.
Let us know when it's finally updated.
Thank_Dog wrote:
The Basic Rules PDF will be updated as soon as it can be.
The important thing is the definition of "as soon as it can be" in regards to the update. It means as soon as the design team have finished the rules content, polished it up, and inserted it into the basic PDF, corrected any layout snafus caused, and then uploaded it - but also means at some point after people can buy the PHB in their friend local wizards play network store.
That means the 8th at the earliest, but it could take some time past that point since the developers have told us some DMG contents are being added as well, and the DMG is still in finishing so those parts might not already be done and ready to add.
Last, but probably most important:
They WILL make an announcement once the file is updated because it is important to them that everyone knows about it.
Has it been updated already?
kanageddaamen wrote:
I'm pretty sure it will be the 8th or the 9th (barring some sort of unforseen setback on their end), because the plan was to have the content there for people to run a complete campaign as soon as they have a PHB.
Hrm... that would have been a good L&L topic. Oh well, maybe this coming Monday will have details.
To Twitter! This is pretty much what it's made for after all.
I just had no idea they were even doing updates to it.
An update of the basic rules ? Do we know what will be added ? I didn't saw problems with it and i am curious to know what will be the changes.
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Sturmunddrang wrote:
I think you guys need to take a hit of this jeffrey, it will calm you down until the update comes out.
masterfat78 wrote:
If it's not updated on the 8th I'm going to be very unhappy. I'm going to be feverishly working to run a campaign on saturday. They claimed that I won't need the DMG and MM because when the PHB comes out I will be able to run a full game. I'm counting on that. Im counting on having monsters, at least a basic framework for creating monsters and NPCs and basic stuff like that. If not, then why released the PHB, I don't need it. It's pointless if I can't do anything with it. I've already ran the starter set.
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Azzy1974 wrote:
Where was it announced that they were going to be adding these things?
kanageddaamen wrote:
Azzy1974 wrote:
There are also a few other corrections needed in the Basic Rules, such as the Wizard's cantrip issue, and some terminology surrounding d20 roll results.
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Evenglarexi wrote:
I was thinking it would include some Monster Manuel stuff. My group Is playing through the starter set, and I preordered the Hoard of the Dragon Queen, but I have no urge to run it. I'm basically using it to plan how adventures should go, (and for some monster stats.) I don't have Forgotten Realms-philia that everyone at WOTC has. I started playing in 4E's Nentir Vale and my world is sort of a combination of that and Greyhawk.
If D&D is really about freedom and options, I'm chomping at the bit for the option to play anything other than Forgotten Realms.
(I don't mean to sound super anti-FR, but I never really liked the idea of giant, eon-spanning histories I'd need to at least be familiar with to run a setting. Being a newish DM with oldish players, I'm at a huge disadvantage with most prepublished worlds. I liked how 4E did Eberron and Dark Sun where they started the story where the original ones started. For FR, the Adventurer's League gives links to a bunch of, (roughly $5 each,) PDFs for each chunk of the setting. When most of your group has all the details filled in for the setting ahead of you, it makes it way more effort forme to keep up.
It does seem like a cool setting, but I dislike the years of history I know very little about.)
*Also, I have read about eight of the Drizzt books and like them, but for some reason, liking the Drizzt stories is also flamebait.
Merl's said he hoped he could do it on the 8th.
But no promises, because the DMG is taking alot of his time.
The basic update that we are awaiting, will consist of content drawn verbatim from the MM and the DMG. The MM has already been finalized, so that's not a problem. But until the text of the DMG is finalized, the extracts from that can't be finalized. So things have to be done in that order.
The time pressure arises because the HotDQ adventure releases tomorrow and the updated PDF is required to play it.
Meanwhile, we can all get impatient but it won't make any difference 
It's required? How? What does the Hoard of the Dragon Queen have going on that needs the new PDF?
If I purchase the PHB tomorrow, the basic rules will certainly be updated immediatly after, because in that case I won't have time to look at them since I'll be distracted by my shiny new book.
If I fail to purchase a copy of the PHB tomorrow, then there will undoubtably be a delay, and the basic rules update will not occur until the 19th.
Lecarde wrote:
Karnos wrote:
I'll know when Basic is updated because I check here almost every day. It's not like some of you won't post it and start discussing it.
I wonder if it will be a 2nd PDF, or the same PDF, but with some more pages added.
BoldItalic wrote:
Published adventures have always had their monster stat blocks in them, as well as DM 'eyes only' tips/rules. It is pretty cool that apparently all you need for playing published adventures is Basic and the purchased adventure (and dice, paper, and pencils, of course). To really enjoy D&D, IMO, you'll need all 3 core books minimum, and WotC knows that.
I hope us Basic people, and on the fence people, like me, will at least get 15-30 monsters in the Basic PDF update that is supposed to come out when the PHB hits shelves. I don't want to buy adventures set in FR just for a handful of magic items (which I can easily make up on my own) and a handful of 5e monsters (of which I'd need at least 15 very different* stat blocks to feel comfortable making up more).
*Casters, melee and ranged humanoids, a dragon, demons, abhorrant creatures, intelligent and uninteligent undead, constructs, natural tooth and claw and magical tooth and claw creatures, etc.
To SETI,
They're going to revise the PDF to make it longer. It will replace the current PDF. (At least, this is what they've implied.)
I've got a 12-hour car ride on Saturday and I'd love to have it by then.
seti wrote:
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Grazel wrote:
https://twitter.com/Wizards_DnD
seti wrote:
rexartur2 wrote:
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Nautilus wrote:
Just checked out the HotDQ supplement. Looks like some interesting stuff, I'm considering throwing an adventure together using it (not sure if the Basic update would be out before I can finish it...)
Just picked up Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Looks good, only complaint (and kind of a big one) is no monster stat blocks for normal creatures. I know it will be in the basic update (it kind of has to be to run the adventure) but I would have just assumed the stat blocks would be in the adventure.
Stat blocks are in a Dragon Queen supplement already available online.
the stats are here for the monsters
http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/HoardDragonQueen_Supplement1.pdf
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BoldItalic wrote:
I'm noticing that it feels like the opposite of what we usually see. In the past, we got "free fluff, buy the crunch". Now it's a lot of "free crunch, buy the fluff".
Interesting...
EDIT: Stoopid autocorrect "fixed" both my uses of the word, buy.
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On their twitter feed, WotC has just confimed we will NOT be seeing the update to the Basic rules today. It is planned for next week.
Hours and hours of clicking the refresh button, all wasted! 
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AaronOfBarbaria wrote:
Are they ever going to make a PDF of the GaleForce9 spell cards? (The ones the guy could not be more excited to announce.) I run my game in my friend's bar and I like to be as low tech as I can.
I was hoping it would be out before I left for camping so I could load it to my tablet and read while on the Mountain.
Drat. Double drat.
Oh, well... I'm on my way to pick up my PHB so I don't need their dumb 'ol update anyway...
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kill_the_wiz_first wrote:
MechaPilot wrote:
I'm happy having the Hoard of the Dragon Queen appendix to look over today. It means the update to Basic is going to be more polished when it comes out next week.
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DMBobo wrote:
Fertility domain is a great idea too. I don't want to see another 'nature' domain, with that as an implied 'fold in'. Besides, druids have the encompassing 'nature' covered.
seti wrote:
I hope Wizards posts on their homepage and news page that the Hoard of the Dragon Queen monsters and spells are available for free in the PDF. A lot of people don't visit the forums or may have missed the tweet.
Edit: Also, the Tyranny of Dragons page really should have a link not only to the online supplement, but also a blurb about the first book (the name of the first book isn't mentioned in print anywhere on the page), and a store locator for people to buy the book.
kill_the_wiz_first wrote:
Ramzour wrote:
There was an entry on the Community page earlier today. They released the PDF supplement for the Horde's of the Dragon Queen book and said the Basic Rules update will be next week.
seti wrote:
Go to the link they provide for Tyranny of Dragons update. You can grab extra monsters and magic items there.
Being an American company with a standard US Corporate attitude I am not sure WoTC could find Australia on a map. No early release stores in Australia at all.
"Being an American company with a standard US Corporate attitude I am not sure WoTC could find Australia on a map."
Sure they could. It's right between Germany and Hungary.
DemoMonkey wrote:
Lady_Auralla wrote:
WotC isn't a distribution company.
Having said that, I hate that have to wait more than a week before I can get my chubby, grubby fingers on a PHB.
Youngy wrote:
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Lady_Auralla wrote:
So, will it be up about 4.5 hours later? 
Azzy1974 wrote:
Lame, it seems Australia and Canada (two places which I think are the way forward) are getting jipped.
Brock_Landers wrote:
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Brock_Landers wrote:
Lady_Auralla wrote:
I work in London - one of the greatest cities in the world. There isn't really anything that isn't for sale somewhere in this huge international metropolis...
...however, there isn't ONE shop with the advance copies of the PHB in the entire country, never mind just the city. I have checked all the links from the WotC website and other sites I know of personally such as the famous Orc's Nest and the best supplied independent shop in the country - Spirit Games.
Nada!
Obviously the world consists of the USA and 'some other people... maybe' as far as WotC is concerned.
That a crock!
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Thank_Dog wrote:
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Any news on this?
Only a couple hours left in the West Coast business day.
But, I imagine a lot of the WotC staff is off for GenCon and not available to make fixes.
They said last week, "next week." They didn't say, as of the most recent news (last Friday), "by Monday."
I tweeted the Wizards_DnD account, but got no response on the matter.
Caliburn101. wrote:
Prism wrote:
Thank_Dog wrote:
Yes we are certainly over charged and given slow service in the UK, I mean we got our PHB from our local FLGS at 16:00pm (08:00Pacific) on the 8th August and was charged GBP27.00 ($45.26USD) in the Wet and Wooly Wilds of Swansea. All kudos to The Gamer's Emporium Swansea......
mrsrockguru wrote:
Azzy1974 wrote:
Thank_Dog wrote:
MechaPilot wrote:
What the hell are you guys talking about in this topic? It was supposed to be about basic rules and the last page is about player's handbook pricing?! Shouldn't that be a topic of it's own? Any news on the update?
We were mainly talking about countries outside of America not getting access to the early release copies of the phb then it involved to US corporate attitude to foriegn countries and pricing in foriegn countries.
That's confusing to people who don't read the two pages or so of price discussions. It may have been relevant at first but it's starting to wander off topic. You can't assume that everyone reads every page of every topic.
On topic, it's still not updated. >_>
Looks like it may be updated. It says v0.2, and the .pdf is dated August 12, 2014 on the cover page.
That being said, I'm not sure how to figure out what is new in it.
Just downloaded, will start reading through it now 
New content:
- Noble character background.
- A few spells have been added.
- An appendix on FR deities.
- An appendix on FR factions.
This isn't the update with monster/DMing content they've promised is coming.
Monsters are in a seperate 'DM' pdf
creases wrote:
The magic items in the DM part seem to be a different selection from the ones in the HotDQ download so it's worth having both.
bookmarks 
Pages 7..9 of the Player's have been re-organised but it's the same material as far as I can see.
Likewise pp 44..45 and 49..55 (equipment). The tables have been moved around within the text.
OH I didn't even see the DM's document! Thank you!
Page 67, Long rest - they added (in bold):
At the end of a long rest, a character regains all lost
hit points. The character also regains spent Hit Dice, up
to a number of dice equal to half of the character’s total
number of them (minimum of one die).
New Wizard spells are
- Acid Splash & Poison Spray (cantrips)
- Shatter (L2)
- Counterspell (L3)
- Wall of Fire (L4)
ShadoWWW wrote:
pukunui81: @gregbilsland @mikemearls Any chance you could post a "change log" of what's new/different in the players' Basic Rules document?
gregbilsland: @pukunui81 @mikemearls Yeah, we're going to try to get something posted on the basic rules landing page shortly.
Orethalion wrote:
BoldItalic wrote:
For those not following twitter: on p57 of the DM document, the example is printed twice with different numbers. Both seem to be partly wrong!
BoldItalic wrote:
Well, updated lacks new classes... I don't see anythign worth mentioning (or downloading for) on the 0.2 Player Rules.
DM Update on the other hand is more than welcome.
Aldath wrote:
Where is the roc or the phoenix in the monster list?
Azzy1974 wrote: