D&D (2024) One D&D Cleric and Species playtest survey is live.

[UngeheuerLich]

I actually chose subtype as 1st place. This makes it purely a specific game term for character creation. Kind is something you can ask for: "what kind of person/creature/humanoid was it?", so I put it on 2nd place.

 

[Scribe]

Respect the poll, ANCESTRY.

 

[aco175]

I guess if Type is humanoid or Fey, then Subtype is something I can come around to.

 

[Scribe]

• Species
• Kind
• Subtype

I can live with any of the three.

"Species" is the most self-explanatory.

"Kind" is Medieval and Ancient, and equates to Species.

"Subtype" can work but hurts my ears and gives the impression that the Type itself is "super" important.

Dont like any of these, and I told them to just go with Ancestry. lol

 

[tetrasodium]

after the spending habits reveal during the fireside chat it's surprising that these surveys are still not asking if responders dm & what percentage. I wonder if that info is still linked & cross indexed from past surveys where it was asked.

 

[Shiroiken]

When it asked me to rank my preferred replacement term for "race," I chose Subtype as my favorite and put Species in last place. I wasn't going to comment further but I couldn't skip the next question, "Why did you rank that term as your favorite?" I hope my answer wasn't too snarky to be useful, but it's the honest truth:

"I picked 'Subtype' as my favorite because 'Ancestry' wasn't an option."

I responded with "they all suck." I then proceeded to explain why, and then added Lineage and Ancestry as my preferred options.

 

[Yaarel]

I guess if Type is humanoid or Fey, then Subtype is something I can come around to.

For me, as a 4e-ism,

"Fey" is moreso a Planar Origin.

For example, when Find Familiar summons a Fey Beast, the pet is both a Beast and Fey.



The Planar Origin means something like "what the creature is made out of".

For example, a Material creature is made out of matter.

An Ethereal creature is made out of spirit.

An Astral creature is made out of thought.

Thought is sometimes called "aster", and spirit is sometimes called "ether", especially in the sense of a medium that something is made out of.



From this, Celestial is aster under the influence of Positive Energy, and Fiend is aster under the influence of Negativity.

Similarly, Fey is Positive ether, and Shadow is Negative ether.

 

[Charlaquin]

So, I discovered something interesting. You can string any number of words together with hyphens in the “additional comments” boxes and they’ll all get counted as one word. I think if you were to use this to type a several-hundred-all-hyphenated-word-response you’d probably just get your response thrown out without it ever being read, but it might be useful if you’ve hit the 200-word limit and just need to squeeze an extra couple of words in there.

 

[tetrasodium]

So, I discovered something interesting. You can string any number of words together with hyphens in the “additional comments” boxes and they’ll all get counted as one word. I think if you were to use this to type a several-hundred-all-hyphenated-word-response you’d probably just get your response thrown out without it ever being read, but it might be useful if you’ve hit the 200-word limit and just need to squeeze an extra couple of words in there.

Bypassing form validation on order to submit a longer entry does not guarantee that the database field it is probably getting written to won't simply limit the IMSERT to the number of characters the form tried to benforce. There is a good chance the excess goes away or even that it simply fails to store the entire text box depending on how the code is written to at re it when you click next

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Does anoyne else think it is a bummer that the survey is open till Jan 20th...
I hoped to get a new packet earlier next year...