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

[Haplo781]

I like that everyone gets a feat at level 1. I'd like even more choices. I like my pcs to feel unique more.....

Maybe a feat at levels that end with 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 0?

 

[Li Shenron]

Wow! So many dealbreakers for me

This is actually the first good news about the new edition. I am starting to consider I should fake flying colours on my feedback to lessen the chances of having them pull it back to a version that could make me undecided again

 

[Charlaquin]

Tremorsense and other things....seem kind of backgroundy to me. Some of the cantrips also. I'm clearly not in the majority here, but I'm unsure yet how I feel about the various racial traits.

I’m not sure what you mean by that?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Ardlings are currently my least-favorite part of the UA. I just don’t get them. Feels like they wanted a general anthro race in the PHB and also wanted an upper-planes counterpart to Tieflings in the PHB and used the existence of animal-like celestials to try to justify killing both birds with one stone. But the end result feels incohesive to me. Why does my catgirl character have the ability to grow wings? Something, something, upper planes. Meh. Just put Aasimar in and make a new general anthro race.

I mean, I totally get where you're coming from, but like, the sort of people who want a rando anthro are definitely going to be pretty okay with the "angelic wings" deal, because it fits with so much of that stuff. Especially the catgirl types.

So I think this is a stroke of evil genius myself. As soon as they said Ardling my brain said "Here comes some kind of planar Furry...".

 

[cbwjm]

Then say so in the survey? That is the point of a playtest!

But the surveys are so long! And honestly, I don't feel that strongly about it.

 

[Retreater]

Just got through the video.
You have to use Inspiration now. It's tied to feats and racial powers.
You have to do Initiative the way they say. It's also tied to a feat.
But the worst. The absolute worst. Monsters can't crit. Damage is a static, predictable number.
Do these designers even play the darn game?

 

[Medic]

I mean let's hope. Maybe this tells you about how much we studied WW2 in history but when I saw "One D&D" I immediately though "Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer!", and a lot of right-wing parties worldwide like "One X" messaging ("One Nation" Tories in the UK for example). Whatever, that's probably just me, but it's definitely a bad name. whereas even DNDNext was an okay name.

It's a perfectly reasonable connection to make. "D&D One" is a name that could accidentally convey an idea of "This is the ONLY D&D! D&Deviants will not be tolerated!"

 

[Charlaquin]

I skimmed past dragonborn because I thought they were the same, not sure how I feel about this change and think I prefer the replace an attack version of Fizban's. I really don't think they need to Revise dragonborn again.

Does the Fizban’s version have Darkvision? If not, I disagree that they don’t need to be revised again.

 

[Zaukrie]

I’m not sure what you mean by that?

I am not sure how to "fix" it at all.....but here and in Level Up, I feel like some of hte things that are racial traits should really be in backgrounds. It isn't a big deal at all, and really doesn't change much once the game starts, frankly.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

As opposed to being cheesed off that psionics effectively don't exist?

This is an opportunity to fix that issue, so yeah, they will be cheesed off if WotC actively decides not to fix the issue by simply making some spells "Psionic", especially if this is "Forever D&D" as they imply. If you can delete races that have been in the PHB since the 1980s, add Angel-Furs, and so on, you can put in a Mystic/Psion class, frankly.