D&D 5E New playtest packet available.

[I'm A Banana]

Iron hide is weird. AC is there to stop you getting injured, right? So our typical LV 1 barbrian literally has abs of steel that cannot be injured?

The # of rages/rest is a little fiddly. "Once per short rest but no more than X per day." I think it's just an awkward wording thing.

I don't really like the drawback for raging. Being in a whirling fury is an EXCELLENT opportunity to leverage reactions -- instinctive, fast, without thought. The fluff works really well there.

I think the barbarian feels a little more "hardy" than the fighter. Most of the rage abilities are actually defensive abilities, which...I dunno. They make sense, but it's not the "RARGH SMASH!" kind of unstoppable rampage I think of.

I think Rage should be more extreme. Bigger bonus, bigger penalty. Make it something a little risky, or at least that feels a little risky.

 

[Blackwarder]

Anyone managed to find the new exploration rules?

Warder

 

[babomb]

In case anyone else is wondering about what specifically was clarified for cleric and monk, here's what I found, with the help of a pdf-diffing tool:
Cleric:

• Fixed a formatting error that resulted in placement of "Level 1: Spellcasting" subheader and first three sentences of the following paragraph appearing at the top of the second column, as well as the word "prepared." in the paragraph starting with "Casting a spell" appearing at the end of the first column instead of in the second.
• Text for Words of power added (or copied/moved from somewhere else?).

Monk:

• One instance of "path of stone's endurance" was accidentally written as "path of storm's endurance".

There were also a few minor formatting changes, but that's it.

 

[FireLance]

Iron hide is weird. AC is there to stop you getting injured, right? So our typical LV 1 barbrian literally has abs of steel that cannot be injured?

Iron hide? "Such heroic nonsense."

 

[Evenglare]

Iron hide is weird. AC is there to stop you getting injured, right?

Not at all. AC was always an amalgamation of several different things.

 

[DonAdam]

Anyone else disappointed that so much of the stuff discussed in the Google hangout (weapon dice as martial damage dice, etc.) didn't make it in?

 

[Warbringer]

Iron hide? "Such heroic nonsense."

For less heroic games refluff as " tough arse"

 

[Obryn]

Not at all. AC was always an amalgamation of several different things.

Just like hit points. And damage reduction. And saving throws.

Really, D&D is a mess.

-O

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Iron hide is basically a justification for Chainmail Bikinis and Loincloths of Steel, that many Barbarians seem to have.

 

[Warbringer]

Iron hide is basically a justification for Chainmail Bikinis and Loincloths of Steel, that many Barbarians seem to have.

I thought that was cha as a bonus to ac for chain mail bikinis