D&D (2024) More People Test One D&D Origins Playtest Than D&D Next

WotC has announced that more people have playtested the first One D&D playtest than the number of people who playtested the entirety of the D&D Next playtest 10 years ago, which led to the release of D&D 5E. The number of people who playtested D&D Next, according to the credits in the 5E Player's Handbook, was over 175,000 people.

In the first week alone, more of you have playtested One D&D than in the entirety of 5e playtesting!

Thank you to everyone who has helped shape the future of Dungeons & Dragons!

 

[Zaukrie]

I beat them up on still having learned things in races, inspiration being so much worse than lucky, and a few other things. (the combat based feats are so much more powerful than the others, for example)

 

[dave2008]

When you’re done let us know how long it is.

It took me a long time as I had to stop to respond to some work emails. My advice - don't do it at work!

For me it was 28 questions (include write in responses) about the playtest and then some demographic questions. I will post my answers when I get home from work

 

[dave2008]

I told them I didn't test anything, and was still asked about them all. Maybe there were more undepth questions for you?

Not sure, i will post my questions and answers when I get home. I took screenshots of everything

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Isn't there more people playing D&D now than before? That just makes sense. So celebrate every victory, no matter how small or meaningful, eh? That's cool.

 

[Weiley31]

I'm not going to lie: I've taken stuff from this playtest and added onto the previous versions of certain races because I love it so much.
That Tremorsense via Bonus Action? Yup, adding it to the previous 5E Dwarves.

 

[Parmandur]

It took me a long time as I had to stop to respond to some work emails. My advice - don't do it at work!

For me it was 28 questions (include write in responses) about the playtest and then some demographic questions. I will post my answers when I get home from work

I was lucky enough thst it dropped as I started my Coffee break.

 

[Nikosandros]

I live in California. I'm not sure almost 9am qualifies as early morning. My 6:45 wake-up, though...

Well, early as in "first half of"...

 

[Nikosandros]

Have to "claim" it on D&D Beyond to get access to the page with the download link.

Yes, but I was talking about the Next playtest in 2012.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I mean, with the Beyond sign-up they have much more solid data on who is downloading stuff than they did with just a hosted PDF.

but as we see here more people downloaded it then tested it... so the number still isnt' right

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I live in California. I'm not sure almost 9am qualifies as early morning. My 6:45 wake-up, though...

yeah some people 'early' and other peoples 'early' don't always line up... in general I have been told not to call or assume to get a call before 9am the local time