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Dodge tanking is a thing!From the article:
“Fighters, Barbarians, and Monks offer three different approaches to being the party tank (…)”
Monks are tanks now?
Dodge tanking is a thing!From the article:
“Fighters, Barbarians, and Monks offer three different approaches to being the party tank (…)”
Monks are tanks now?
They are now...if you are using the 2024 UA.From the article:
“Fighters, Barbarians, and Monks offer three different approaches to being the party tank (…)”
Monks are tanks now?
Booms??? Or books...?
I started to think there was some new thing called "booms" going on.
Considering I will never believe them, infinite.
Belief is pointless. You and they are just using a different definition of "edition". They're not trying to lie to you (in this case). They have spent a LOT of effort in explaining what THEY mean by "not a new edition" - it doesn't obsolete the majority of 5e books. That's pretty much all that's important to them.
Clearly, you're more concerned with how it obsoletes the 2014 Core Books. That's fine! But by that definition it's 9th Edition. Now, they're clearly not going to call it that.
It's not some nefarious plot (this time) - they appear to have chosen, out of a whole lot of (mostly bad) choices to just call it D&D. Apparently. Possibly 2024 D&D. We haven't actually seen their full marketing yet.
We can agree with that choice or not, it's not a big deal.
People, OK. But if a game designer refers to a Melee DPR class as a a Tank, then I'm concerned about the game. Did they just give the monk a new role, or is he simply clueless?People use "tall k" pretty imprecisely now: a Monk's shtick is Frontline combatants, which I imagine the writer meant with that comment. He seems to be going off of the "Class Groups" from the UA Playtests (as they also group Paladin, Druid and Cleric together as "support") which while they stripped out the rules part over the playtest may still be in the PHB as an organizational grouping.
All they need to do is put "6e" on a leaked cover image, and the fanbase will be equally vocal about how it's totally 5e still and how dare they think they can call this a new edition.How many times and in how many different ways can they say it’s not a new edition before people will believe them?