D&D (2024) New One D&D Playtest Document: 77 Pages, 7 Classes, & More!

There's a brand new playtest document for the new (version/edition/update) of Dungeons of Dragons available for download! This one is an enormous 77 pages and includes classes, spells, feats, and weapons.

Unearthed Arcana Playtest

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In this new Unearthed Arcana document for the 2024 Core Rulebooks, we explore material designed for the next version of the Player’s Handbook. This playtest document presents updated rules on seven classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue. This document also presents multiple subclasses for each of those classes, new Spells, revisions to existing Spells and Spell Lists, and several revised Feats. You will also find an updated rules glossary that supercedes the glossary of any previous playtest document.

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[mamba]

Feats are core rules, now, anyway, that's another change. They're no longer "optional".

yes they are, apart from the one you get from your background, the ASI just is a feat now too

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Yup, the Rules Glossary represents the changes to the core engine of the game, and it has gotten progressively smaller over rthe test, and anything that doesn't appear in the latest Rupes Glossary isn't happening (some of the critical weirdness from the first few packets, for example). Anything not in those 6 pages is coming from 2014 into 2024. And those Glossary changes aren't written in stone yet.

Which is why we really need another pass at feats before we can know if the light weapon/Nick property is going to work for TWF.

If the intention is to just not change the dual Wielder feat more than strictly necessary, great, I can still take it and fight with two rapiers like they’re short swords. If not…I guess that’s one more thing my group won’t update, which isn’t great.

 

[mamba]

It's never too late for superior nomenclature.

I am not sure it is superior given the history... Imagine calling it '6e but compatible with 5e', that is so much worse than simply '5e'

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

* Obviously they are aiming for new players too

I just imagine the new people who saw the DnD movie and are like 'yeah, I wanna play a tiefling Druid who turns into all these animals!' then get to be greeted with 'alright, here's 500 pages of spells, cross-reference which ones are relevant to you, and here's a whole another book that has your beast statistics somewhere in there'.

I don't know what smiley would fit in here.

 

[Parmandur]

yes they are, apart from the one you get from your background, the ASI just is a feat now too

It's legitimately a change, but in terms of game math basically basically meaningless. A 2014 PC can just roll in and take a 1st Level Feat, per Crawford, and just go. Heck, many 2014 PCs already have Level 1 Feats, since Theros in 2020.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

However, that 40 page small type document represents some really gnarly changes, like those to Skills.

Uh-huh, but that's not the equivalent document to the "core rules" update, is it?

That's the 8-page "core rules" booklet.

The 40-page booklet contains all the changes to the:

PHB
DMG
MM

40 pages for everything, absolutely everything in 3.5E, and a lot of it is wasted space.

I guarantee you will not be able to fit the changes to the

PHB
DMG
MM

In 1D&D into less than 40 pages, absolutely everything, in a similar format.

 

[Parmandur]

Which is why we really need another pass at feats before we can know if the light weapon/Nick property is going to work for TWF.

If the intention is to just not change the dual Wielder feat more than strictly necessary, great, I can still take it and fight with two rapiers like they’re short swords. If not…I guess that’s one more thing my group won’t update, which isn’t great.

Yeah, I imagine they wanted to fully process the Playtest 5 response before getting back into Feats that involve Weapons, so I think we'll see that in 7.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It's legitimately a change, but in terms of game math basically basically meaningless. A 2014 PC can just roll in and take a 1st Level Feat, per Crawford, and just go. Heck, many 2014 PCs already have Level 1 Feats, since Theros in 2020.

Who are you even arguing with here? It's like you think people are saying 1D&D is "not compatible".

No-one is saying that.

Pointing out changes doesn't mean it's "not compatible".

 

[Parmandur]

Uh-huh, but that's not the equivalent document to the "core rules" update, is it?

That's the 8-page "core rules" booklet.

The 40-page booklet contains all the changes to the:

PHB
DMG
MM

40 pages for everything, absolutely everything in 3.5E, and a lot of it is wasted space.

I guarantee you will not be able to fit the changes to the

PHB
DMG
MM

In 1D&D into less than 40 pages, absolutely everything, in a similar format.

Well, hopefully not. More bang for the buck. Bit as long as compatibility is maintained, that's gravy.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

yes they are, apart from the one you get from your background, the ASI just is a feat now too

Nope, lol.

They're non-optional. Before you could only take Feats if the DM allowed it. That is no longer the case.