D&D 5E ... and we have a wizard!

[gweinel]

That is quite a list of weapon proficiencies for a wizard!

and probably all of them would be useless since the wizard has the dmg cantrips...

 

[amerigoV]

Well, it was quite bothersome to me. I remember preparing Fireball or Cloudkill or whatever and, just when I was ready to cast it, some ally got into the area and suddenly I was all "Well, there goes my striking power. Ok, I... shoot it with my crossbow -.-".

Of course, YMMV and all that.

You are just enabling their bad tactics. Go ahead and cast that spell ... they will learn

 

[Wolfskin]

You are just enabling their bad tactics. Go ahead and cast that spell ... they will learn

You know, I just can't bring myself to cast a spell on the party no matter how much I'd like to. Good Guy Syndrome, I guess

 

[Nikosandros]

3. Cantrips. As with the Cleric, there's a bonus cantrip at level 4.

I think that that's a function of the character increasing his casting stat (int or wis) to 18 at 4th level.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Apologies if I missed when this was added to the playtest, but when did Wizards start getting d6 hit dice?

Sometime between August and October 2012.

 

[Kobold Stew]

I think that that's a function of the character increasing his casting stat (int or wis) to 18 at 4th level.

That's possible, but it's not included under the benefits of Ability Score Improvement.

 

[Nikosandros]

Apologies if I missed when this was added to the playtest, but when did Wizards start getting d6 hit dice?

It was changed from the packet relesead on October the 29th 2012 onwards.

 

[Obryn]

Okay I'm confused because wizards spell lists in 4e also grew as you went up in level and as they released more splat books... I don't think you need to copy a separate list (with descriptions) of spells prepared so either way it's one list of copied spells... so I'm trying to understand what the major distinction is here...

For most characters at around 20th level, you'd have 2 at wills, 4 encounters, 4 dailies, and a slowly growing list of utilities - maybe 4-5 at this point? These get replaced as you level up. And this is a quite high level character.

Wizards have 3 extra dailies at that point and 3-4ish extra Utilities. They're an outlier.

Wizards in 5e have a larger and more variable pool of prepared spells, out of a much larger pool of spells known, with none ever being forgotten or phased out.

 

[Nikosandros]

That's possible, but it's not included under the benefits of Ability Score Improvement.

True. Well, we'll know in less than a week.

 

[Johnny Champion]

A few observations:

1. Acolyte background. For a third time, we've been given a non-obvious background. Dare we hope for a rogue who's not a guild thief? That would be brilliant. I'm so pleased that they are leveraging the opportunities of backgrounds, even in the pregens.

As I read this observation, a bigger issue always nags at me. I know it is off topic but..

Backgrounds do add flavor to a PC but isn't the age of a typical character quite young? And as Level 1 in a Class, wouldn't that have required several years foundation in study and training with a mentor? I just have a hard time putting much relevance in a background as it seems to me, IMHO, that role playing Class requirements in regard to time, trump anything of importance. Where is the time in years that can allow a worthwhile background to develop AND the specialized training to become Level 1 in a class? It seems that a mage would be studying for years before becoming Level 1? So how much time could he have had available to be a Bounty Hunter as well?

or am I putting too much thought into this?