D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

WotC's Jeremy Crawford has announced a new Unearthed Arcana article today with redesigns from the prior Heroes of Krynn UA based on feedback, and in the following video he discusses that feedback and what's in the article:

• New iteration of Kender based on feedback survey, due to mixed response. This time is a back to basics, aiming to capture 1E AD&D fearlessness, curiosity and taunting skills. Delve into their origins from Gnomes in deep history.
• Kender are no longer fey creatures who grab objects from the Feywild
• Tweaked Feats from prior article
• Tweaked Backgrounds from prior article
• Brand new rule giving a list of free Feats for ANY Background
• Free Feat rule for Level 4 for all characters that doesn't take the ASI away, based on a curated list
• Reveals that in the Adventure, healing magic is already back.

Heroes of Krynn Revisited | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore updated character options from the Dragonlance setting! This playtest document presents revised races, subclasses, backgrounds, and feats.

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[Maxperson]

So by this logic, there's no point in having expanded definitions in the books, either, because the average person isn't going to get up and grab their books to look it up, since it seems like most people use online tools and pdfs at least some of the time.

Wow. False Equivalences are false. By the above twisted logic, there's no point in writing books, because no one reads them.

Plus--as I said in an earlier post--alignment could easily be replaced by a short motive for a monster, like in Cypher System or Fate. "Likes killing people" is much more useful than "chaotic evil."

Then do that. There's no need to screw up those of us who find great use in alignment for monsters and NPCs,

You, and Mistwell, seem to be confusing AC with armor.

Maybe you aren't talking about D&D, because armor increases AC in 5e.

But it makes using the label of Neutral Evil useless as well.

To you, not me. You don't get to tell me something that I find very useful is useless.

When you label a creature as Whatever Evil, you are basically saying that no matter what the creature does, it does so while being evil. It has Evil breakfast and takes Evil showers and teaches their children Evil ABCs. It's why the books go into detail about how awful orc or goblin day-to-day life is.

No. That's not only false, it's bonkers.

This isn't a debate as to what AC 20 is, though. AC 20 means one thing: that you need to roll a 20 or above to hit. It literally doesn't matter to the game how you have AC 20.

And your example still isn't a debate about armor; it's a debate about what hit points actually represent. And the answer is, it's an abstract tool, not a single thing.

And neither hit points nor AC determine how a character is played, which is what alignment is supposed to do, but generally doesn't.

You can dodge the point, but it still remains that plate mail increases AC and causes misses on things that don't actually hit, yet still hit.

 

[Scribe]

When you label a creature as Whatever Evil, you are basically saying that no matter what the creature does, it does so while being evil. It has Evil breakfast and takes Evil showers and teaches their children Evil ABCs.

No...lol that isnt what it means at all but I am chuckling at the idea of sitting down for my Evil tea, while wondering how I will go about my Evil day, without getting fired from my likely Evil job.

 

[Maxperson]

No...lol that isnt what it means at all but I am chuckling at the idea of sitting down for my Evil tea, while wondering how I will go about my Evil day, without getting fired from my likely Evil job.

But......................but......................tea IS evil.

 

[Scribe]

But......................but......................tea IS evil.

Ahem...

 

[Maxperson]

Ahem...

I despise both coffee and tea. You can put me firmly in the cocoa camp.

 

[Faolyn]

Fine, well, all, I'm bowing out. I don't care anymore.

 

[Scribe]

I despise both coffee and tea. You can put me firmly in the cocoa camp.

My tea drinking sensibilities are offended...but I do have a hot chocolate when its cold and damp here...

 

[Weiley31]

But......................but......................tea IS evil.

Ahem...

I despise both coffee and tea. You can put me firmly in the cocoa camp.

I'm a Snapple/McDonald's Sweet Tea person myself.

 

[Maxperson]

Fine, well, all, I'm bowing out. I don't care anymore.

Can't handle a tea hater?

 

[Maxperson]

I'm a Snapple/McDonald's Sweet Tea person myself.

I used to drink Snapple lemonade. Haven't had it in a few decades, though. I'm really not sure why I stopped.