D&D 5E 02/08/13 New playtest packet to released today. [Udate: PACKAGE OUT!][

[Blackwarder]

The cleric life domain channel divinity OTOH means that basically he can heal every one with impunity... Blah.

Edit: wait, how long is a short rest now?

Warder

 

[Chris_Nightwing]

I see what they're doing with classes, and it works, I think. The 'plain' fighter abilities are indeed plain, and it works, I think.

They are still obsessed with giving you d4s and d6s to roll, sometimes to add to your d20, sometimes to resolve something separately. This is very difficult to explain to players I find.

Healing is back to evocation? I'm not getting a sense of coherency from spell school assignment.

Saving throws are still dex/wis/con skewed, they're not even trying >_<

 

[Warbringer]

You need someone to give you a link to the D&D Next playtest page?

Well, OK. Here you go! http://dndplaytest.wizards.com/

Smarty pants

I went there initially and it had a 6/9 packet date ... anyway, likns are always good for SEO backlinking

 

[Gundark]

I have not gotten an email yet and the play test section on their website has not been updated

 

[JRRNeiklot]

Eh, rangers still don't have magic user spells. I didn't read any further.

 

[Morrus]

I have not gotten an email yet and the play test section on their website has not been updated

You don't need an email. Just click through to download the package. It's the latest one.

 

[Gundark]

the link worked thanks. Preliminary readings show that they got rid of dead levels. Yay!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Eh, rangers still don't have magic user spells. I didn't read any further.

Sure they do. Alarm is mage-only. Detect magic and water breathing are admittedly on both the druid and mage lists. There are some other cross overs. If you are looking for the entire mage list (to replicate teh 1E ranger) -- I don't think that will happen. I'd like to see an option for a non-spellcasting ranger myself, but I think that won't be in the core release.

 

[Warbringer]

Fighters 7 ability score increases ....

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Fighters 7 ability score increases ....

Imagine a 1/2 orc fighter with that ... 32 STR if the character skipped feats.