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]

They missed more than a few things in the lists, backgrounds were also missing.

 

[dave2008]

They missed more than a few things in the lists, backgrounds were also missing.

Which backgrounds? I thought all the playtest backgrounds where in the survey

 

[Haplo781]

"More people are playing D&D in 2022 than in 2012" is not surprising.

 

[Parmandur]

Not specifically, but I used the freeform "any other comments" textbox toward the end to talk about that aspect at length.

Same here, I quite like it and let them know that.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Wow.

 

[Parmandur]

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

For WotC, this is a smell test: people downloading and reading is what they want to gage reception.

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

Which backgrounds? I thought all the playtest backgrounds where in the survey

Acolyte was missing from the "have you played?" section was present on the "evaluate this background" part. Cultist was missing from both. A couple of others were missing from both as well, all had the Magic Initiate feat from above.

At first I thought it was because they may have bumped out the magic initiative feat from their consideration, but I did see at least one background with the Magic Initiate feat included in both the played and evaluate sections. (Though I think it was the Sage which could easily be refluffed with the skilled feat.)

It was slightly annoying because the Cultist was the one that I briefly playtested and there wasn't an option for.... "other."

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Until you respond and tell them you didn't actually use those rules in play. Assuming you're honest with them!

I mean if we assume people are lying that is a different issue

 

[Oncewasbenji]

Anyone else finding that stats in background leads to people picking optimal background for class, therefore being a bit uniform in decisions about characters? I fed this back as I can see it making new characters less diverse.

 

[Marandahir]

Anyone else finding that stats in background leads to people picking optimal background for class, therefore being a bit uniform in decisions about characters? I fed this back as I can see it making new characters less diverse.

What do you mean by picking backgrounds? The default assumption is that you build your own background and assign the feat and ASIs and profs that fit with it. What we have here are a handful of sample backgrounds you MIGHT build something akin to.

This is not like picking backgrounds in the 2014 PHB, where the default assumption is choose a background, and you can customize it if you'd like and the DM approves…