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We'll have to see more details. Theoretically it could just require that you have HP, AC and similar for tracking. I have a DDB account and I can create custom subclasses. Can you do the same if you just have the free account? If so you could create it yourself. You wouldn't be able to share...

This actually sounds interesting, with key events determining the future and conventions being in-person and online. Makes me want to try to sign up for Gencon again, but last year when I tried every single D&D game on my wish list was gone when I tried to sign up 5 minutes after registration...

Came here hoping to get more info on the new campaign structure and found the same old same old "WotC is terrible". 😔 It would be a headache for a DM with a group of random players to have them mix and match 2014 and 2024 rules. You don't have to pay a dime for DDB, you just won't have all...

But that is not accurate. For some people, they play because they can't find a group that wants to play their preferred game. For others, D&D is their preferred game for them and their players. It's just a happy coincidence that it's easy to find other players.

It can be groan inducing for me when repeated coincidences, especially when they feel forced in order to advance a specific plot or if they happen too often in a movie or on a TV show. It's my reaction and I'm not going to deny it.

In the modern world, we regularly interact with people from around the globe. My D&D campaign world is not the modern world. It also doesn't necessarily excuse the miraculous coincidence that someone just happens to run into an old ally when they are in a city they didn't even know existed...

Some of it comes down to interpretation. Like the PC with a noble background being able to get an audience with a local noble. Where "local" was interpreted as local to wherever the PC happened to be. Even then I disagreed with it, if the lore of the world has direct conflict between two...

So now it's a failing of the DM if they can't make it work? :rolleyes:

So if I don't share your preference for how the game runs, if I prefer the way D&D has established the roles of the game, I'm somehow ... dismissing that you like something I don't like? I don't like something you like. Big deal. We don't have to like the same things. It's not about control...

I've been careful to be very clear that I'm just talking about my own personal preferences. Other people's styles and preferences are their own. We all have things we like and do not like, just because I don't like cooked carrots and don't like eating them does not mean if you like cooked...

If a piece of fiction regularly relies on extreme coincidence on a regular basis, it isn't for me. A lot of people like types of fiction I don't, it's not an insult to acknowledge that. P.S. I have never used the words "improbable nonsense".

If I really, really want to win a race, ace a test, make that sale, convince that cute girl to go out on a date with me, sometimes it doesn't really matter how hard you try. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't. There have been times when I thought I would succeed and did not, times when I...

I said I couldn't take it seriously where someone has a contact wherever they go because I couldn't. Am I supposed to lie about that? And just as important why does it matter? If it doesn't matter to you, it doesn't. Someone may have many contacts. But not absolutely everywhere you go...

And ... we're off to the races again with the 2014 backgrounds. :sleep: It all really just boils down to personal preference and style of world building. Want a contact anywhere and everywhere you go? More power to you. For me? I couldn't take that campaign seriously and it would be groan...

If something is certain, there's no need for a roll. Winning the lottery is not certain, I'd need a million sided dice to figure out if I won.

No, it just means we have different point of view. I don't understand why you keep insisting that if someone doesn't like something you do that you're being insulted. All of these issues are subjective and personal.

So if I push really, really hard I can win the lottery tomorrow?

One of the rules I dislike. Still doesn't guarantee success at the level you get it but I still think it's a poor rule. But pushing hard does not in any way guarantee success. In fact, at times it can be counterproductive.

Different does not mean lower.