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

[Cadence]

The name 'Ardling' doesn't really bother me, because it's about time the Guardinals got re-introduced into the game. They're the one Great Wheel extraplanar alignment-based creature that's never really been highlighted since like 2E. All the other ones have shown up in the game much more often:

I was kind of wondering if it was because of how the aas in aasimar was being pronounced...

 

[cbwjm]

I'm glad they're going the way of pathfinder with spell lists organised by type target than class.

 

[Teemu]

Apparently classes will still have class spell lists, the new categories are for feats and races. Mentioned in the accompanying video by Crawford.

 

[Kurotowa]

Also: Lucky got buffed in that now you can potentially have 6(!) of them once you Prof Score gets that high.

It's still a net nerf with how it can no longer stack with Advantage or invert Disadvantage into Mega-Advantage. That was the really atrocious part.

 

[overgeeked]

I was kind of wondering if it was because of how the aas in aasimar was being pronounced...

Don't worry. It took us about 10 seconds to mispronounce the "ardling" as "nardling" and start making "Wolfman's got nards" jokes.

 

[Justice and Rule]

wow a feat that makes you do math... this long sword cost 15gp what is 20% of 15?

Finally we have a use for silvers and coppers!

More realistically... are they finally going to make up some rules for crafting, given this feat?

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.)

Variant Human looking back at the 5E Base Human:

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Aaaaand dragonborn still suck.


D10+level save for half isnt worth an action.

Tell them to change it to be more like the Fizban Dragonborn on the 1st is what I recommend.

 

[Weiley31]

More realistically... are they finally going to make up some rules for crafting, given this feat?

Nothing worthwhile I expect. It still feels like they are just gonna have the "DMs" do those details. I guess we'll see.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Celestial planetouched having easily mockable names is tradition.

It's pronounced closer to Awesomer, and not Ass-i-mar.

 

[Steampunkette]

I like some of the changes, of course...

But I'd still like to see just a -tiny- bit more done to the spell lists:

Arcane, Divine, Occult, Primal

Split out the "Dark and Questionable" magic to be it's own thing, rather than giving Wizards and Sorcerers the Warlock's unique and interesting spells.