D&D (2024) 2024 Core rule book changes

[Micah Sweet]

I know. It's just that if they were releasing 144 the overlap would be huge, and therefore I would be wasting my time with a product.

But if they only have 16 I'm confident they'll have nearly zero overlap with what I'm doing.

Maybe use Drive-thru proper then instead of DMsGuild, unless you need WotC campaign setting.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Cool. I will just show up at my FLGS with my 10th level gith battlemaster, find the first DM I see and demand he run Curse of Strahd for me. That's how that works, right?

Where did that character come from?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Unfortunately, in part because first TSR and later WotC have seen it both as a gateway to attract new players and as a means of keeping rules consistency between tables, organized play has had an outsized influence going all the way back to the early RPGA days.

This won't change until-unless publisher-backed organized play goes away, and I don't see that happening anytime soon if ever.

Or we reject it in favor of actually playing our own games. Who's with me?

 

[Remathilis]

Everyone's different, of course. The way I figure it, life makes us choose heritage first*, why shouldn’t the game?

*Of course, life actually chooses stuff like that for us.

Species is far less important than class. A human and an elf wizard play fairly similarly, an elf fighter and elf wizard do not. Further, we are long past the point race dictates your class choice, level limit, or ability score adjustment.

 

[Remathilis]

Where did that character come from?

The last DM who I forced to run a game for me.

 

[Lanefan]

Species is far less important than class. A human and an elf wizard play fairly similarly, an elf fighter and elf wizard do not.

The underlying question, of course, is whether that similarity in play between a Human wizard and an Elf wizard (and most other species of wizard) is a feature or a bug.

Further, we are long past the point race dictates your class choice, level limit, or ability score adjustment.

Not in my games we ain't.

Level limits are gone, sure, but hard-coded ability-score adjustments by species and some species being outright barred from some classes would stay in no matter what edition I ran.

 

[Oofta]

1. Yeah, emphasis mine. I don't know if they meant orc or if half-races somehow returned.
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Mixed heritage is still a thing, it's just not limited to half orcs and half elves.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Species is far less important than class. A human and an elf wizard play fairly similarly, an elf fighter and elf wizard do not. Further, we are long past the point race dictates your class choice, level limit, or ability score adjustment.

In 5e perhaps. Not the only D&D game out there, and I prefer the old ways.

Also, making species even less important is a design choice, one I don't agree with. Level Up is a 5e game, and they made heritage  more important.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The last DM who I forced to run a game for me.

Are you serious, or are you trying to make a point I'm not getting using humor?

 

[Remathilis]

In 5e perhaps. Not the only D&D game out there, and I prefer the old ways.

Also, making species even less important is a design choice, one I don't agree with. Level Up is a 5e game, and they made heritage  more important.

The underlying question, of course, is whether that similarity in play between a Human wizard and an Elf wizard (and most other species of wizard) is a feature or a bug.

Not in my games we ain't.

Level limits are gone, sure, but hard-coded ability-score adjustments by species and some species being outright barred from some classes would stay in no matter what edition I ran.

I thought this was about One D&D/2024 PHB, not Micah's/Lanefan's Special Homebrew Old School Style D&D Hack.