I’ll believe it when I see it. Just because the D&D brand is attached to it, won’t mean it can rival BG3.
There are games out there that give me what I want whithout the brand.
The thing about crafting in many of these examples, is that it also requires gathering. Gathering materials is very satisfying in computer games. You see a tally go up and up, and you know that you can change all of those into valuable resources that improve your power in combat or whatever else...
It sucks as a DM to have an experience like this. You set up a boss fight, only for it to become anticlimactic as you fail an important save.
I really dislike how many spells can lock a DM out of playing with their own toys. Save or suck spells and abilities are the main problem in this. Many...
I actually think it is a very tough ability to play around as a spellcaster, having faced off against it. I would not recommend giving it to more than Rakshasa’s.
Finished the survey, pretty much gave all of it a green rating.
Also, surprise, surprise, they still give you the option to write out feedback if you give a green rating!
I was ready to dislike this UA, but I think I really like it. I can't say I have a campaign where I want the players to have access to such psionic options yet, but I'm feeling slightly inspired.
There might be some tweaks and changes, but I feel pretty confident about what they made here.
Honestly? What they did in this new UA is exactly what I wanted. I don't want them to make a new system of abilities just for one class, then duplicate a ton of spells anyway.
After our play test last sunday, I had a pretty good time.
I was not enjoying the bard multiclassing twice just to make some jank build that topped of their AC. Spirit Guardians is good enough without granting everyone half cover. I miss the out-of-combat flavor.
The Hollow Warden was cool...
So, I started out really hyped with the Dr. Frankenstein artificer finally being released by WotC, but after that I kinda soured on all of these subclasses.
Likes
The reworks overall look good and effective.
Theming is mostly good
Dislikes
Where are my ribbon features? For most of these...