D&D (2024) One D&D Cleric & Revised Species Playtest Includes Goliath

"In this new Unearthed Arcana for the One D&D rules system, we explore material designed for the next version of the Player’s Handbook. This playtest document presents the rules on the Cleric class, it's Life Domain subclass, as well as revised Species rules for the Ardling, the Dragonborn, and the Goliath. You will also find a current glossary of new or revised meanings for game terms."

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WotC's Jeremey Crawford discusses the playtest document in the video below.

 

[Faolyn]

This, exactly. Because most players aren't going to want to engage on thst level, nor should they have to.

Have you checked out reddit? Because the posters on the D&D subreddits are all about balance.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Have you checked out reddit? Because the posters on the D&D subreddits are all about balance.

And yet, all the data we have seen from wotc and ddb about what people play suggests most people don’t care about optimization, to the point that the most popular options are often ones that internet discourse insists are garbage.

Most telling, IMO, is that the class and subclass rankings from DDB didn’t change when only viewing people who had unlocked all supplements and PHB.

“people who discuss D&D on twitter and Reddit and various forums” is a tiny portion of the player base.

And IME, those discussions have a lot more people who care about fair play and basic stuff like making sure homebrew isn’t broken, than people who care about the nitty gritty of balance.

not to mention all the people who always pop up to say, “this doesn’t matter” in some form or other in nearly all of those threads about balance.

 

[Incenjucar]

A number of players are aware of balance problems but suck it up because optimized builds are often boring in execution or feel bad to play. Some DMs will also ban it, including myself.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Have you checked out reddit? Because the posters on the D&D subreddits are all about balance.

They're also all about posting fake horror stories and adding that the 'villain' liked anime, videogames or furries to mine karma, so let's not ever listen to what reddit has to say.

Edit: And I say this a someone who does value balance and dislikes the attempts to demonize basic game design principles.

 

[Greg Benage]

Have you checked out reddit? Because the posters on the D&D subreddits are all about balance.

For that matter, they may have run across the stray balance discussion on enWorld (ENworld? not sure how to write it...) over the last twenty years.

 

[Scribe]

“people who discuss D&D on twitter and Reddit and various forums” is a tiny portion of the player base.

We all are. I know this has been mentioned in various discussions, but by virtue of even being on this site (or reddit, twitter, whatever people have run away from twitter on) we are a dramatically small, hyper invested, almost myopically focused sub group of the "D&D Players" group.

 

[Xamnam]

We all are. I know this has been mentioned in various discussions, but by virtue of even being on this site (or reddit, twitter, whatever people have run away from twitter on) we are a dramatically small, hyper invested, almost myopically focused sub group of the "D&D Players" group.

And then, on top of that, if we're discussing things like how classes compare, we can't bring in our personal experiences in a meaningful way, nor house rules or table etiquette, which, to a degree, only leaves white-room math as something that we can at least all agree on the structural premises of (and not even always then).

 

[Faolyn]

So, what I was specifically reacting to, and should have singled out in the post, was this: “and if someone wants to play, I dunno, a psi knight, they may not be able to do so easily with the One version of the fighter.”

And judging by the UA and dev statements they absolutely will be able to play a psi knight or any other supplemental fighter subclass with the revised version of the fighter.

They can do a lot with the fighter without chanlging the subclasses.

I said "may not be able to do so," not "definitely won't be able to." Because we don't know what the fighter is going to look like.

 

[Faolyn]

They're also all about posting fake horror stories and adding that the 'villain' liked anime, videogames or furries to mine karma, so let's not ever listen to what reddit has to say.

Edit: And I say this a someone who does value balance and dislikes the attempts to demonize basic game design principles.

But listen to EnWorlders?

 

[Bill Zebub]

You would confidently be incorrect: the overwhelming majority don't care about that sort of thing, per WotC and Beyond numbers cited over the years, and that matched my experience and observation. A small percentage pay any attention to any bit of that "discourse," which is why WotC usually just ignores it.

Yeah I agree with this. I personally am into 'balance' and geek out on mechanics and math. The people I play with? Not so much. There's one member of my group who has pretty good system mastery, but the rest of them mostly just go for flavor and don't really seem to care how mechanically effective they are, nor how they compare to others. (As an optimizer myself it sometimes drives me crazy.)

I am also the only one who reads Enworld or follows the news. I've tried to talk about the One D&D stuff and they all kind of look at me blankly.