D&D (2024) Unearthed Arcana Playtest Packet 6 Video

[bedir than]

3 Priests, 3 Experts and a Monk walk into a playtest ...

This will be my next set of pregens

I continue to be annoyed by references to a single "D&D Multiverse" with canonically established cosmology. One of D&D's greatest strengths is that it can support an infinite variety of settings, yet the developers seem intent on pushing as many players as possible into the same one.

the D&D multiverse is the infinite variety of settings where people play D&D. No one is getting crammed into a single one.

 

[michaeljpastor]

i see where you are coming from but a long standing excuse is still an excuse.

If in 2003 I told you "I run late because my clocks are always off" and every time we meet and I am late I repeat that, in 2023 if you call it an excuse I can't go back and say "nah, I have been saying it since 2003"

Actually, yes you can. After a certain point, if you know I am perpetually late, you just have to build it into your expectations of my behavior.

 

[Amrûnril]

Nothing in the rules says "regardless of what the DM says." That's made clear in the books.

"Regardless of the setting the DM describes", not "regardless of that the DM says". Of course the DM is free to tell the players they're ignoring the "standard" cosmology, but this shouldn't require a specific disavowal of statements by the developers. A homebrew setting should simply imply the possibility of a homebrew cosmology.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

But I agree that some time the requirement for passing has left interesting ideas in the cutting room floor. I just don’t think the new exhaustion mechanic was one of those

It definitely wasn't interesting, but it was a mechanic that was much easier to use than the old 'hold on let me check the table for which exhaustion level did what', and was equally balanced regardless of your role/class.

So it works as a better mechanical base, but something like this, which is just doing mechanical clean-up to a sub-system that was never used by people in the first place, is never going to get the survey crowd to go OMG I LOVE THIS WHOOOOO... which they should know.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

It definitely wasn't interesting, but it was a mechanic that was much easier to use than the old 'hold on let me check the table for which exhaustion level did what', and was equally balanced regardless of your role/class. So it fits in as a better mechanical base, but something like... doing mechanical clean-up to a sub-system that was never used by people in the first place is never going to get the survey crowd to go OMG I LOVE THIS WHOOOOO... which they should know, but they still applied the same criteria.

I don’t disagree that everything shouldn’t be subject to the whims of a survey, but I disagree that the UA version was a better base.

 

[ZetaShift]

Funny, we have played in both (tier 3 right now) and never had more fun playing D&D. Not sure why you think it is unplayable

Power to you. It's playable in the sense that yes you can play it rn, but it's clear the game becomes very unbalanced around that tier due to how the game is built. T3 and T4 is just window dressing, something to look at for alot of people but nothing more.

 

[michaeljpastor]

I hope cleric gets a Domain of Beauty, but have be less of a manipulator, and more of a Muse, like dabbling in Bard, but with a more visual and religious angle, then auditory

A cleric of the Arts and Sciences would be able to add bonuses to anyone's skill checks, guarantee others, and given that their mother is Mnemosyne, have the ability to (grant) recovery of spell slots (but only spells that have already been cast that day). A fighting style involving dancing could be involved, and a rage-like Dionysian ecstasy mode would round it out. The Hellenistic muses are listed below for reference.

• Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (flutes and music), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Terpsichore (dance), Erato (love poetry and lyric poetry), Polyhymnia (hymns and sacred poetry), Urania (astronomy)

 

[Parmandur]

Wait -- I haven't been following the development for a couple months. Did they drop the new 10 level exhaustion and go back to the clunky, punishing 2014 version?

Yeah, they've whittled down the core rule changes to about 6 pages in the last packet, probably a little smaller tomorrow: each Rules Glossary overwrites the prior iterations, and anything not explicitly covered there assumes the 2014 PHB rules instead.

 

[jerryrice4949]

Smite + Shillelagh + Weapon Mastery meta?

Yup and at low to mid levels Paladin seems the most powerful in current 5E.

 

[Minigiant]

I find my enthusiasm waning with the rollback of the exhaustion and uniform subclass progression changes.

Are the new exhaustion rules going?

I thought they were widely beloved.