D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

[overgeeked]

Anyone able to answer the resting and healing variant question? Seems to have been lost in the shuffle.

 

[pukunui]

Anyone able to answer the resting and healing variant question? Seems to have been lost in the shuffle.

It's been confirmed elsewhere that all optional and variant rules are gone.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

There's an Ability Checks section (page 27), how do skill descriptions compare to the 2014 PHB? (The 2024 PHB hardly has any.) Are they more detailed, or less?

My impression is that it's about the same.

Does it list DCs?

It does not.* It gives pretty good advice on why you'd call for checks (as a DM) though.

'* I mean, it has the DC chart, you know, with groups of 5 described as to what they mean. Nothing specific, though!

 

[Zaukrie]

Ah yes, good question. They're with Curses, and list Cackle Fever, Sewer Plague, Sight Rot. They each have their own mechanics (involving the usual Exhaustion, Con Saves, and Long Rests. They have their own way to spread and to fight them off. They apparently share a "Three Day Rest" where if you do "nothing that would interrupt a Long Rest" for 72 hours, you have Advantage on all Saves against them. (Take it easy, man, you don't look too good.)

They honestly look pretty good to me.

Intrigued

 

[dave2008]

It doesn't work fine. For the one fight to be any sort of challenge, it needs to be insanely overtuned. And even then the casters still cannot burn through significant portion of their spells, so still have a ton for utility, thus skewing the balance. And of course if there are no several fights per day, there cannot be short rests between them so short rest classes get screwed.

I guess if your players know they are only fighting one battle a day it could be an issue. As a DM, I never let me players feel that safe. So it has not been an issue for my groups in 5e.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ah yes, @FitzTheRuke, is there anything in the DMG to clarify how stealth/hiding is supposed to work?

I don't think so.

 

[overgeeked]

It's been confirmed elsewhere that all optional and variant rules are gone.

That sucks. But thanks for the reply.

 

[Parmandur]

Personally I have 0 familiarity with Greyhawk so I was excited for it as a sort of blank canvas to run games in.

Ah, nice! Did you find the division into six regions made sense, and provide good hooks for different campaign styles?

 

[Yaarel]

It's been confirmed elsewhere that all optional and variant rules are gone.

I guess the future variants will simply be new products that mention a variant.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

That sucks. But thanks for the reply.

Sorry if I missed it, but yeah - I don't think there's any mention of any mechanical alternatives, though it goes over quite a bit of "what you'll get" when you make choices within the mechanics.