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What I hate about the playtest, is that it gives an excuse for turning bad design decisions into the community's fault. Wizards ignores the community's wishes as it wants - as I recall, Arcane/Divine/Primal spell split got a good reception, but WotC got cold feet and cancelled that so fast...

The gear section is multiple pages, but what I wrote above is basically the gist of the combat-usable items (plus Healer's Kit, which is same old). Most of the gear list is just stuff like 'a bucket holds half a cubic foot of contents', 'you can tie a string into a knot with a Utilize action'...

It's okay. Some people like it more. I think it loses its focus once random baddies start repeatedly delivering monologues to the camera.

They're reusable (if you can spend 10 minutes to collect them after), and cost 1gp anyway. I was actually giving them the benefit of the doubt, and entertained the notion that if even just one niche subclass like Thief could make use of Crafter, then it could be worth being included as an...

Yeah, even if you were someone with an Extra Attack, it's not worth losing your normal attack to do a mere 2d6 acid dmg, let alone for a Rogue (if you want a 20ft attack, just throw a dagger). Holy Water does get doubled to 4d8 if it's against someone with radiant vulnerability, which is an...

Yep. By default, everything non-casters get, casters get as well. If this was a stricter class system, you could just say 'you trained with other things' and not let casters know how to use, say, shovels, but that's not the 'let's do 3e multiclassing again' direction they chose to go with. 2024...

I love equipment lists if they are full of useful stuff. NOT if they really want to tell you how much a leather belt costs rather than just assuming you have one. (Ideally, mundane equipment would be the spell list equivalent for non-casters, with something to make it so that casters are not in...

Grappling wasn't intended to make you pause and count pounds, though. Applying encumbrance to grappling makes dragons struggle to fly off with, say, a single cow, and people start putting up an anti-grapple defense by loading their backpack with rocks, etc.

Much as I hate the cheese-grater, I do want to point out that initiating a grapple is much less likely to land in 2024, whereas it could be practically automatic from lv1 in 2014 (all you needed was a raging Barbarian, because no monster is ever trained in any skill). It's a save, and there is...

I'm curious to see the effect of that. You can stack skill mods onto the Rogue so they don't even need to roll to beat specific thresholds (first 15, then 20), which could turn lv7+ games into a diceless experience (for skills the Rogue is trained in). Add in reactive boosts (lv2 Fighter...

I know, the true goal for Thieves is to get a wand/rod/staff out and pretend you were kicked out of the wizarding school... and plenty of this stuff is already losing its luster when you only start living your Thief life from lv3 onwards, but... it's cool.

In honor of adventuring gear having more concrete rules about their use - and Thief Rogue looking like an absolute hit - let's go through the options! (note: the save DCs to apply are in the 10-15 range, either using a static value or the default 8 + Dex + proficiency formula) As an attack...

This one's funny. It doesn't mention it, because in the rules glossary, Grappled (condition) and Grappling are back-to-back, so it'd be repeat text when reading the book in order. But when they chose to only put it under one entry, they chose to not place the escape clause in the condition...

Of course they'd leave that text in as is... I think this bothers me more than the other shenanigans.

Your choices with Unarmed Strike are... Damage: Make an attack roll. Grapple: Target rolls a save. Shove: Target rolls a save.

Look, they just fired the people who'd check this sort of stuff, what do you want poor WotC to do!

Ah yeah, it does define weapons (let's ignore 'anything can be an improvised weapon' argument, as that seems too much against the spirit of the rule). I think if you want to do it through the object interaction, that sets some other limits (and you lose effective OAs), so two-handers being able...

Yeah, but if you were to switch to the shield 'every other round' anyway, you clearly weren't worried about that. Still need a free hand for that (can only weapon-switch as part of the Attack action, not attacks). Though you could kick someone to knock them prone as an OA (or to push them next...

Thanks for linking, I love this sort of stuff! Every turn, surely. Put the shield away as part of your first attack with the two-hander lv1-4: use your free object interaction to draw the shield back out lv5+: Attack again with your Extra Attack, and take the shield back out as part of the attack

Incapacitated as the condition's name keeps catching me off-guard. 'we were chasing this guy and incapacitated him' 'so you caught him?' 'oh no, he kept running and climbed up a cliff' You're just unable to take actions, but you can move around normally. And now, Stunned also no longer...