D&D (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

[Ruin Explorer]

Dehydration: certain amount of water is needed each day, based on size (1 gallon for medium). If you drink less than half for the day, you get 1 level of exhaustion.

Bring back Dark Sun! This is literally the first time I've seen D&D mention requiring specific amounts of water since the the 1990s lol.

 

[Scribe]

There's a lot of small nerfs to Bladelock, compared to the UA builds. Blade Pact no longer enables Mastery traits. The third attack costs yet another invocation. Lifedrinker is limited to once per turn. There's no easy and economical way to get Medium Armor or Shields.

It's enough that the next time I want to play a gish, I'm almost certainly going to go with Eldritch Knight Fighter instead. I'm not saying that Bladelock is dead, but it's been narrowed down considerably into something I personally am less interested in playing.

Weird that they would go to all that effort, instead of just removing the 3rd attack...

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

Bring back Dark Sun! This is literally the first time I've seen D&D mention requiring specific amounts of water since the the 1990s lol.

Agreed. But my favorite thing with DS was definitely the material used to make weapons and armor - like, omfg, a metal sword! I'm a god now!

 

[Scribe]

Bring back Dark Sun! This is literally the first time I've seen D&D mention requiring specific amounts of water since the the 1990s lol.

Considering 5.5 will probably be the edition where the water wars really start to take center stage, maybe someone wanted to sneak something in that could be a bit prophetic.

 

[mellored]

There's a lot of small nerfs to Bladelock, compared to the UA builds. Blade Pact no longer enables Mastery traits. The third attack costs yet another invocation. Lifedrinker is limited to once per turn. There's no easy and economical way to get Medium Armor or Shields.

It's enough that the next time I want to play a gish, I'm almost certainly going to go with Eldritch Knight Fighter instead. I'm not saying that Bladelock is dead, but it's been narrowed down considerably into something I personally am less interested in playing.

Magic Initiate lets you use Shillelagh as Int, Wis, or Cha.
Along with goodberry.

So hexblade dip has some competition.

Straight hexblade with 3 attacks is looking potent though.

 

[mellored]

What's Produce Flame like now?

Bonus action, 10 minutes (no concentration), and the light doesn't go out when you attack with it.

 

[ECMO3]

Hey folks, I'm sitting here in a stadium in Indiana with a little time to kill. AMA about anything you want to know, and I will look it up!

Also, yes, we have an index!View attachment 374940

Two big questions:

1. Any changes to the Shield spell?

2. Any changes to Cantrips scaling with multiclassing?

I just want to make sure the broken parts of the game are still broken.

 

[ECMO3]

Magic Initiate lets you use Shillelagh as Int, Wis, or Cha.
Along with goodberry.

So hexblade dip has some competition.

Straight hexblade with 3 attacks is looking potent though.

I believe any Warlock gets Charisma on attacks with pact of Blade (could be wrong). I would think this would make Hexblade obsolete, especially since you would not get Hex Warrior until level 3.

 

[Charlaquin]

@DavyGreenwind could you please post the exact wording of the invisibility spell? Greater Invisibility would be appreciated as well if you don’t mind, but at least the former. I think it may be crucial in clearing up some ambiguity about the stealth rules. Thank you very much!

 

[Nightfly]

1. Any changes to the Shield spell?

Not OP and do not have the book, but I have been told that Shield has not changed.