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

[GMforPowergamers]

Does the wording of Weapon Mastery allow to combine it with weapon cantrips like the Booming Blade, the Green-Flame Blade or the new True Strike?

are those cantrips in the new PHB?

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Sort of. The initial grapple attempt (an Unarmed Strike) has a DC that the opponent must make Str or Dex save against. Trying to escape a grapple on subsequent actions is Athletics or Acrobatics (against the same DC).

WTF! Why? That is so confused and stupid!

 

[DavyGreenwind]

are those cantrips in the new PHB?

Alas, no Booming or Green Flame

 

[Azzy]

WTF! Why? That is so confused and stupid!

Because Grappling rules tend to always suck—why buck a tradition?

 

[mellored]

No one answered this so I will, it literally uses branches and roots of the World Tree to extend their range with attacks. Like swinging your great axe with branches to slash them.

 

[mellored]

Alas, no Booming or Green Flame

Which means you keep using the old ones.

I.e. no changes.

 

[Nefermandias]

Do we still have the option to play a game without feats and multiclassing, or is it mandatory now?

 

[DavyGreenwind]

Do we still have the option to play a game without feats and multiclassing, or is it mandatory now?

Feats seem to be baked into the rules now, and multiclassing is the same (optionality-wise).

 

[Azzy]

Do we still have the option to play a game without feats and multiclassing, or is it mandatory now?

They are not listed as optional, but I'm sure that a group could decide not to use them.

Multiclassing can be ignored (same as always), but feats are more baked in. Backgrounds give an Origin Feat (instead of a bespoke background feature), humans get an additional Origin Feat (Like V-Humans in 5.14e), Fighting Styles are now feats. But when you gain a feat, you have the choice to take an ASI Feat (which is the default choice).

 

[Plaguescarred]

The same

I just read elsewhere that they're not the same and wording was changed. Could you share an image of Vision & Light rules and Heavily Obscured ? I'd like to compare with 2014 text if you can thanks.