D&D 5E Mike Mearls Dungeons & Dragons 5e interview, 6/26/14

[Remathilis]

This is the kind of derailing that I like

And now, a post about hobgoblin fighters.

 

[Thaumaturge]

And now, a post about hobgoblin fighters.

[video=youtube;Gxmoyidrfro]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxmoyidrfro[/video]

THAUMATURGE.

 

[GravyFingerz]

[video=youtube;Gxmoyidrfro]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxmoyidrfro[/video]

THAUMATURGE.

I watched the entire thing. People need to put the frogs down. Pretty sure that sound means that the frog doesn't like being touched.

 

[Thaumaturge]

I watched the entire thing. People need to put the frogs down. Pretty sure that sound means that the frog doesn't like being touched.

I turned it on, let it play, and walked away for a minute. My wife came home to the sound of screaming.

Thaumaturge.

 

[GravyFingerz]

I turned it on, let it play, and walked away for a minute. My wife came home to the sound of screaming.

Thaumaturge.

What, she's not used to screams of frustration after reading 20+ pages about second wind?

 

[Thaumaturge]

What, she's not used to screams of frustration after reading 20+ pages about second wind?

Sadly, I don't even think she noticed.

Thaumaturge.

 

[GravyFingerz]

Sadly, I don't even think she noticed.

Thaumaturge.

Normally I would XP you for this post but there is more than one reason that I can't. Also I can't XP [MENTION=7635]Remathilis[/MENTION] but I can't, gotta spread them around and yadda yadda yadda.

 

[Evenglare]

I'm surprised at you guys. In the interview Mearls pulled up the PHB PDF and no one has extracted the image from the reflection on his glasses!?

 

[I'm A Banana]

This makes me very sad, so the only choices for a sorcerer are going to be overpowering monstrous flavour (with hopefully non intrusive mechanics) or negligible flavour with highly intrusive mechanics.

Well, there's going to be SOME sorcerer archetypes not served in the PHB. What was the archetype you were hoping to play?

What happened to simple flavour with simple mechanics? Why do I have to be forced to play an extra minigame just because I don't like wizards?

(a) nothing.

(b) You don't?

If what you want out of a sorcerer is "just like a wizard, but with the spells known pool limited and innate, and the spells/day pool jacked up," then this could be achievable from a LOT of different angles that are not necessarily "Be a Sorcerer."

I'd start with the Wizard class, and modify it to have something other than a spellbook. That should be pretty easy to do.

 

[Agamon]

Don't forget, the Player's Handbook must be everything for everyone all the time.

Except me. I can't be half-thri-kreen. I may need to turn my back on this game for good.