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

[Charlaquin]

Don't really see it. Only as a part of incapacitated. Maybe an oversight.
I alos mean not only the status, but also how it is resolved.

I don’t think Surprised going to be A Thing. I think imposing disadvantage on initiative rolls will just be the standard mechanic for expressing that a creature was unprepared to be in combat.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Nope.

Wow really? That blows. I can still use my Twitch account but I guess that's grandfathered.

I did predict (repeatedly lol) that WotC would lock playtest materials for this edition behind Beyond access, but I assumed Beyond didn't require to use such personal accounts.

 

[Cadence]

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

I'm just reporting how the threads on it have seemed to go...

Iirc a variety of folks would rather no WotC psionics than spell psioncs. (I kind of like the Occult flavoring instead, and am interested to see what A5e does in their outerspace book).

 

[MarkB]

Unintended consequence: The character with the Crafter feat will quickly find themselves becoming the Party Shopper, sent out to make any and all purchases for the group, from getting a round in at the tavern to purchasing huge tracts of land.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Has Draconic been portrayed as instinctual before? None of the other races came with a language unless I missed one (which makes sense if it's just genetics and the like).

I want to say it has been, but I can't like find an exact reference. But I was thinking about some flavour text a couple of weeks ago from something that implied it was. Like, a creature that scares people, but it doesn't if you speak Draconic or something. That sort of implied it was different to other languages (and the creature might not even have been sentient). Might be something in MotM.

 

[Haplo781]

I'm just reporting how the threads on it have seemed to go...

Iirc a variety of folks would rather no WotC psionics than spell psioncs. (I kind of like the Occult flavoring instead, and am interested to see what A5e does in their outerspace book).

Those people can choose to not use it then.

 

[Charlaquin]

So, I didn't do D&D next. Do I understand right that all the best things will be cut anyway?

;-)

I don’t think so. As JC alluded to in the video, the D&D Next packets were vertical slices of a completely new ruleset, which we were given large chunks of time to playtest, ruminate on, and argue about in the forums before any surveys went out. This looks to be packets of what almost look like house rules to a particular element of the existing rules, which we will be shown and asked to give our impressions on after only a few weeks. This says to me that they already know what they want the rules to look like, and are just running them by us to do a quick vibe-check and make sure the community isn’t strongly opppsed to. Of this packet, I would bet on the changes to critical hits not making it to the final printing, but otherwise I think this is all seems very likely to stick.

 

[Havrik Stoneskimmer]

Is this the first instance of sign language in D&D? That's cool.

There was a deaf child NPC in Dragon Heist who used a sign language she had invented to talk to her friends.

 

[Zaukrie]

Unintended consequence: The character with the Crafter feat will quickly find themselves becoming the Party Shopper, sent out to make any and all purchases for the group, from getting a round in at the tavern to purchasing huge tracts of land.

How much does this matter in most games? I don't know, but if you clear out a few dungeons, you have more gold than you know what to do with, IME.

 

[SkidAce]

We who were around for 3.5 remember. WotC: "Its not a new edition." Yeah it basically was.

No one wants to have someone show up and be like "I'm using a 2014 Fighter with these 2014 Feats/weapons/whatever."

We remember.