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Read and enjoy! Brave New World #72: D&D Next: I Played D&D 5th Edition - RPGnet

I have a rough draft of a "meta-mechanic" in my head for "out-of-combat situations". Roughly an equivalent to skill-challenges, but radically, deeply different. It could be used in Exploration as well. I'd call it "effort-based problem solving", and it would basically work like this. - DM...

From EnWorld's "D&D 5e Info" page: Class list: "The goal at the moment is to include all the classes that were in the first PH style book for each edition." With the Question being: Q: Will some of the non-traditional classes like the Ninja appear early in the next edition? (Taken from the Class...

Are you aware they already stated they're going to make all the classes from all the first PHBs of every edition and make them available from the start? At least all those (many) core classes will be... Core. Then you can still add others through subclasses and such, and have others be themes...

Half-Elf most of the times, then Human, Eladrin, Hobgoblin, Half-Eladrin (yes), Genasi, Githzerai, Dragonborn, Shade, Vryloka and then custom ones to mimic Zendikar (MtG) ones such as Merfolk |<edition change>| Lizardfolk, Gnome, Aasimar, and who knows what else...

I wrote extensively about my ideas for the Sorcerer in 5e in this thread... Basically, I'd like them to have a completely different spell-casting system, focused on "free-form spellcasting" (aka making spells on the fly through simple and few components, mainly element and form). I'd like to...

I hadn't seen the replies to the thread, not accustomed to EnWorld yet... I wanted to link here a custom 3.5 class that rocked my D&D world in 2007 when its author posted it in the Gleemax/WotC forums... This could be a foundation for a Chaos Sorcerer or non-elemental sorcerer. It is based on...

Of course, I stated the maximum number of feats, those you'd get with the "advanced modules". It will be the "most granular method of character creation/advancement". Or as Mearls put it "Take the 10 dollars and head for the market to buy each ingredient to make your own meals as you want". Want...

I think I have an argument-ender here, though i take no credit for it. The version that was playtested, besides being pre-alpha, was also the "core" version. They stated that by "core", they don't mean much "the only official one", or "the only one you get to play without splatbooks". No, they...

Class Feats at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th Racial Feats at 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th (also, "level swap" features -> in racial splatbooks) Theme Feats at 1st, 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 18th (also, advantages/features at some levels) The less competition you...

As I commented, I think this system would be very cool, but then they said that Magic Item bonuses are not going to count a lot, and at the same time mentioned items giving bonuses to stats. An item giving even just +1 Str becomes very desirable in a system like this, and they mentioned a cap on...

I compiled and (I hope) polished my ideas for a good Next multiclassing, leaving it 3e-styled like the devs want... It's getting good feedback on twitter, hope you can comment too! :) Blog at Wizards Community: "My Ideal Next Multiclassing"

I'll try to state my opinion. It's difficult, because it's a "liquid" opinion, even if Multiclassing is one of my top priorities for the game (all my characters have been MCs more or less), and I usually have very clear ideas on game design... I'm going to say 4e Hybrid is my favorite type of...

The latest seminar did slide in the first doubts about the mechanics, but all in all, I think I figured out the whole design philosophy and quality, and I'm appreciating it very, very much. The greatest attraction for tinkerers as myself is the modularity and the openness, compared to the...

Strange news for 4e Sorcerers and this thread: Heroes of the Elemental Chaos features an essential-ized Sorcerer called Elementalist (I swear I didn't know before!) and hear hear: it's Cha / CON! I hope this Con inclusion may be a sign of things to come. Anyway, it sadly doesn't provide any...

BREAKING: From today's seminar live transcript: Q: Any plan to bring back Oerth and Greyhawk? A: (Mearls) With dndnext we want to bring all these things back together, the stories and worlds are just as important to us as mechanics, we want to embrace these things but can't say specifically...

Sorry if this was pjublished already in the thread, but I think the best gameplay tweets belong to ChattyDM! Here pasted in reverse order: chattydm Philippe A. Ménard The science of Rogue bluffing: Hey goblin, guess what? Goblin: Wha? Rogue: Chicken Butt (clatter clatter, wins) Goblin: Ha ha...

Well, It can indeed be terrible, but it doesn't have to be. You'd only have two spell seeds for that reason. And you could also have a list of all the most common combinations. Then if you see the need of something different, you'd just try that and if it stays within your power limit, you could...

I suspect that because in one of the latest Rule Of Three articles they said that with some hindsight, powers could have been organized separated from classes, with some classes drawing from the same list. Also, have you guys noticed that as of now they're planning to cram A LOT of classes in...

Thanks for the feedback guys! I'll try to pitch this thing to WotC when the playtest starts, if I don't like what I see about the Sorcerer... In some way, I'm confident that they managed to differentiate it a bit (for example with bloodlines that never overlap warlock's pacts...), but still...