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

[rooneg]

I'm generally pleased. The level of backwards compatibility they're showing here is pretty much what I was hoping for. They're clearly willing to make changes, but not so much that they'd prevent you from going back and running old adventures, which is the level of compatibility I wanted.

A few specific comments:

I wish they'd changed Race to Ancestry, basically every other similar game is doing so, and for good reason.

Not in love with Crits not working for Spell Attacks.

I will miss Half-Elf and Half-Orc as options with explicit rules. It seems weird that you can't make a version of Tanis Half-Elven that has darkvision but doesn't have magic, for example.

Ardling is a stupid name.

Making "build your own background" the default is brilliant and I love it.

 

[Weiley31]

Also: The terms Arcane, Divine, and Primal are being used. Nice to see that 4E power source types are still being somewhat usedish.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Aaaaand dragonborn still suck.


D10+level save for half isnt worth an action.

It's an AoE, so yeah, it is.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Yeah, while some randomness is nice, just icing someone randomly as a DM becuase you rolled a 20 can just feel... not good? Sometimes it works, but I'd rather that be the result of something I did instead of just "will of the dice", so to speak. Designing monsters to hit hard and their rechargeables be their "criticals" would probably help make that feel better, and it allows you to strategize a bit around those situations: a monster is much more dangerous when they have their rechargeable, but you go in on them if they don't have it back up.

OMG, THEY COULD BRING BACK BLOODIED AND ALLOW MONSTERS TO GET A FREE RECHARGE OFF IT!

Which again, isn’t an “accident”. It’s the DM preventing character death/consequences. Which is fine. Some people want to tell a story over a game with stakes and threats and that’s absolutely valid. No wrong way to play. But there is no such thing as an accidental death of a player.

 

[Cadence]

No more half-elves and half-orcs. Feels weird.

Half everything!

 

[MockingBird]

D20 test? Can someone explain what I'm missing, or sure it's obvious.

I figured inspiration just went away, always forget about it.

Are feats not considered optional? I assume if I want to ignore feats I just make a character from my 2014 PHB?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Yup. They are going place with this. I can say its a good start. Not perfect, but a step in the good direction.

 

[plisnithus8]

It seems like dragonborn should have gem and other new dragon types.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

A chunky errata, probably is in our future.

how is errata any diffrent in this context form NOT back compatable?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Also: The terms Arcane, Divine, and Primal are being used. Nice to see that 4E power source types are still being somewhat usedish.

now if only martials get some love