D&D (2024) First playtest thread! One D&D Character Origins.

[Parmandur]

Or Far Realms origin?

Although technically, Cthonic means "underground".

They've used "Cthonic" for Yugoloths in the past.

 

[dave2008]

Yeah. They can't honestly think two weeks is sufficient time to actually playtest these things. Either that or they've already decided and the "survey" is just PR smoke and mirrors.

Well you will have many opportunities to comment on it. Feats are going to be in several playtests it seams.

Also, some people can definitely playtest these in 2 weeks. Not me, but some definitely can

 

[Parmandur]

The fact that they're getting a strong spotlight on the official announcement makes me feel their exclusion is pretty unlikely.

Also that they seemed to design the Rave to appeal to Tumblr fan artists (not a knock at all).

 

[Parmandur]

Seems like a mixed bag of ideas. Am I hearing that right in that ability scores are no longer a function of race but rather your background? The video seems to plant that flag solidly. They never say race doesn't give you ability scores bonuses, but they repeatedly say that background does now. Unless you're getting two sets of +2/+1...which would make sense with the auto success on a 20 and no more monster crits.

ETA: Is it a bit of a red flag to anyone else that the playtest material drops today and the survey opens on Sept 1st? Literally two weeks from now. That doesn't fill me with confidence that 1) people will actually playtest these things, or that; 2) feedback will actually matter.

Yes, the ASI is entirely relates to Background now, not Race.

 

[Kurotowa]

I'm going to lay a long term bet on something we'll see when the Classes UA comes out in a month or two.

Two things struck me about the new crit scheme. One is that crits are smaller; limited to only PCs, only weapon users, and only double the weapon die. The other is that in talking about why they took crits away from monsters, he said they were emphasizing recharge abilities, that have the burst damage potential of crits and retain some uncertainty but are triggered at the DM's choosing and aren't as wildly unpredictable (and likely to gib low level characters).

So what if the new model is that PCs get burst damage capabilities that aren't tied to crits? Which spellcasters already have, really, when they choose to break out their high level spell slots. But what if this means that martial classes are going to get more impactful burst damage class features? Something that lets them break out the big guns for dramatic moments without having to crit fish.

Anyway, that's my crazy prediction.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They've used "Cthonic" for Yugoloths in the past.

Probably to try and make them sound less boring.

 

[overgeeked]

Around 19:40 he says pretty explicitly that the bonuses will instead be in the background section.

"Where those bonuses now live in this playtest material is in the background section."

So for this playtest, backgrounds give you ability score bonuses.

Doesn't say anything about races not giving bonuses nor anything about there they will be in the revised PHB.

You could be 100% right. But it's not as explicit as you seem to think.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

aren't as wildly unpredictable (and likely to gib low level characters).

Where's the fun in that?!

 

[darjr]

I've added the full transcript to the OP in a spoiler block.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Yeah. They can't honestly think two weeks is sufficient time to actually playtest these things. Either that or they've already decided and the "survey" is just PR smoke and mirrors.

This set of materials JUST covers character creation. Even HERO doesn't take two weeks for chargen.