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

[Remathilis]

As feared nothing means anything anymore. Random racial combinations with no effect and all races being physically and mentally exactly the same.

It's weird; getting hit with a 6 foot blade if metal hurts the same as a bolt of fire to the face, and a guy wearing scale mail has the same chance of being hit as a nimble guy in leather or a tough dude in a loincloth..

 

[TwoSix]

I also wonder if this new race is being introduced because as they've now obviously been working on Planescape they realized that Guardinals have gotten short shrift these past several editions and they wanted to rectify that. And while they could have put Ardlings into the Planescape setting book... maybe they thought it would be better to just have it be in the PHB as an opposite number to the Tiefling.

My guess is that a lot of the recent animalistic races introduced have tested well and they wanted a nice catch-all way to put animalistic races into the PHB without having to do different entries for all of them.

 

[Scribe]

Yes, a disappointing step back from Fizaban.

It's wild they wouldn't just reprint Fizbans.

 

[overgeeked]

Inspiration should be changed to the way many tables use it: instead of advantage it should grant a re-roll.

Right. The only difference is having to declare before you roll or after. I think we've always used it after, so as a re-roll, rather than a possibly wasted resource.

 

[darjr]

I think the bits they are going to double down in for races are the physical inherited things like tremor sense and not the cultural things like “good at mining”

 

[Nightfly]

Math teacher here. To find 20% of a number, move the decimal one place to the left (in other words, find 10%) and then double it.

What's 20% of 450? 45.0 doubled, which is 90. Easy peasy. Great trick for figuring out the tip!

 

[TwoSix]

Also, if I'm reading right, it would seem like Variant Human has been folded into the Playtest Human. (that's a weird statement to say.)

Humans have definitely gotten a big nerf, as the 1st level feats now selectable aren't nearly as good as most of the popular 1st level feats.

 

[DEFCON 1]

As feared nothing means anything anymore. Random racial combinations with no effect and all races being physically and mentally exactly the same.

I know, right? Not like the good old days of 2014 when your party could have a Goliath with a 15 STR and a Halfling also with a 15 STR. Thank goodness the rules made sure to really differentiate those body types!

 

[darjr]

Right. The only difference is having to declare before you roll or after. I think we've always used it after, so as a re-roll, rather than a possibly wasted resource.

Yea. I think this is the biggest thing about it’s non use. However I want to see if it gets used more the old way if players can directly generate it.

 

[Ixal]

It's weird; getting hit with a 6 foot blade if metal hurts the same as a bolt of fire to the face, and a guy wearing scale mail has the same chance of being hit as a nimble guy in leather or a tough dude in a loincloth..

Unless you are weak or resistant to fire or its a touch or flat footed attack, ect. (if those concepts have not been deemed too complicated...)

But now you can be a dwarf with the "abilities" of an orc and the special ability of an elf. How are you a dwarf again?