D&D (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal: Feats/Backgrounds/Species

[SkidAce]

The solution to standardized stat distributions is 3d6 down the line.

4d6 drop the lowest down the line.

 

[Charlaquin]

Sailor, Solider, and Wayfarer are the only three backgrounds after Sage, so there has to be one more here to match the four backgrounds per page.

You can also see what the art is in the Origins video around 8:50. It’s a large room with a black rock that has glowing writing on it and a bunch of desks. So my guess is the missing background is “Teacher” or “Student.”

Probably “Scholar”

 

[Micah Sweet]

4d6 drop the lowest down the line.

That works too. The point is, you don't get to decide everything.

 

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

4d6 drop the lowest down the line.

This is chargen for cowards who are afraid of having 3 con.

 

[SkidAce]

This is chargen for cowards who are afraid of having 3 con.

I did roll 4 ones one time. My fighter had a 3 int. Sirhc smash.

 

[Micah Sweet]

This is chargen for cowards who are afraid of having 3 con.

I support that too. I'd be happy to play that way.

 

[cbwjm]

I don't even know their hit points most of the time.

I'm the same, I might know that the halfling barbarian in my party has the most hp and the bard the least with others somewhere in-between but I never knew the actual numbers. I did go back to the campaign and check, at level 7 the 10 Con bard has 38 hp vs the 18 Con barbarian's 91, but the difference was never considered by me in the creation of encounters or the deadliness of traps, etc.

 

[Maxperson]

you couldn't pay me to play a 10 CON character.

I once played 8 CON in 3.5e, 4th level fighter, archer, an Orc came into melee, one attack, crit with greataxe, -10 HP, Dead.
learned my lesson...

In 3.5e the bonuses and hit points mattered. In 5e not so much.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

This seems to be what WotC thinks new players (their primary concern) want: species as primary an aesthetic choice, like $5 DLC for a video game. I imagine they'd push that harder if they thought they could get away with it.

Heck, maybe they're right, I don't know.

I'm almost 100% certain that in 6e, species will be purely aesthetic with all mechanical features removed. Quite a few people seem to want that to be the case as well.

 

[cbwjm]

I'm almost 100% certain that in 6e, species will be purely aesthetic with all mechanical features removed. Quite a few people seem to want that to be the case as well.

How many want that really though? I've seen it mentioned maybe a handful of times, I've seen more people asking for ASIs to be removed from race but otherwise keep the mechanical differences between them.