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In 5E, in actual play, have you used any of these at all during the time that they have been published options? I will be posting several polls separately to get a feel for what people are actually doing.

In 5E, in actual play, have you used any of these at all during the time that they have been published options? I will be posting several polls separately to get a feel for what people are actually doing.

In 5E, in actual play, have you used any of these at all during the time that they have been published options? I will be posting several polls separately to get a feel for what people are actually doing.

In 5E, in actual play, have you used any of these at all during the time that they have been published options? I will be posting several polls separately to get a feel for what people are actually doing.

I like having bastard sword become part of longsword in 5e. That was OK. But I would still like to see exotic weapons. If it's called the Special Property, that's OK too. Not a game breaking change but there are weapons, particularly the Net, blowgun and flail that no one has a reason to want...

But what do you do with your net? In combat, as it is, it's a poor choice and there does not seem to be a lot of trade off for that.

Interesting. I've been against the change but I am hopeful. I wonder how other classes found the rule. How did the monsters not criting affect the encounter difficulty? Were any recharge abilities used?

Personally, IMHO the weapons are not terrible, but there are some odd things going on with some. Is there any reason to use a blowgun at all? Anyone ever used one? and fix nets to at least be usable. I don't think a strength requirement will fly. If you're proficient with a weapon and using it...

My definition of backward compatibility is if a change is usable in ongoing play. Not just changing things I don't like. I like the paladin smite, and if the smite is changed, then I can still use it as long as the paladin has a smite at all. That's not a backward compatibility issue. If...

I may be but if Crawford and his staff are serious about this not being a whole new edition, these kinds of issues are going to keep coming up. If they are being truthful about the intent, I hope they have an editor in charge of backward compatibility.

With the recent playtest and the continued express commitment to backward compatibility on the 2024 rules release, by whatever name. I'm wondering if backward compatibility from One D&D back to 5E will truly work. The changes being tested seem to indicate not. Grappling not using ability checks...

I think it makes sense for some spells to have attack rolls. You could miss with a Ray of Frost or a Greenflame Blade, but a Fireball covers a wide area. Save mechanics give a different defense against those effects. If a spell has both it's because the effect is especially potent and if it has...

I can agree that inspiration on a crit would be an interesting benefit. That assumes though that inspiration becomes a mainstream rule as well as the crit change. There's no guarantee that both will happen. I concur that Smite should just be reliable and not be expended on a miss but it it's a...

Agree, instant death isn't fun but more monsters having something special attacks or better attacks would make them a more immersive threat than they are now. CRs also need some work. 5E has few templates. I would like to see them return. A little variance in a pack of orcs or kobolds can make...

This is the only part of the playtest that I hate. If it is made a rule, it will be ignored and therefore take up book space with useless material. The expressed reason is that crits can unpredictably kill low level characters. This problem is a rare occurrence and does not need a complex nerf...

Detect Magic can find Magic Traps and tell you something about them. Maybe have Find Traps give advantage or a bonus to the character actually trying to do so. maybe make a melee strike be the somatic component of casting True Strike, and perhaps with Weaponmaster, give a +1 bonus to one weapon...

The crit killing weak characters issue could also be addressed by DMs having minions that do predictable amounts of damage. I like the idea of what we used to call 'massive damage' causing death at the end of the victim's next turn, and of only powers that specify instant death actually causing...

3e had rules for different crit values with different weapons. i.e greataxe was x3 and Lance was x4 when mounted. The language implies that only the weapon damage not sneak attack is included. Perhaps with the thousands of words spent on this the language will be clarified if this is part of the...

I'm also looking at the bard image in the book which I've heard some mention. I get the slave race turned minstral image being disturbing to someone but again, make your bard look like whatever you want. If you're DMing and someone is doing something offensive, just say no.

So if I'm reading the text in the new book correctly compared to the errata, people were offended by the story of the wizard using magic to make a slave race of the Hadozee and them escaping. If so, then everyone playing Spelljammer is free to not use the Hadozee or to alter the lore for their...