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Running my first post 24 release session tonight in a QFtIS campaign using DDB. Have 2 players updating to 2024 characters and one sticking with 2014 for now. Will be using 2024 Unarmed Strike rules and the new Hide rules as well. Will report back on how everyone felt the conversion of their...

On your first point, I'm talking about the bad luck of rolling your damage die any particular round or combat. It can be a 4 point difference each individual attack. And that's the whole point, two handed weapons already have a great top range, with GWF you now also have the best floor, at 4...

Because you want to lift the floor of your damage, ensuring a run of bad luck in any individual combat doesn't bring your DPR down in that encounter while still having the potential to do the highest damage of any weapon on any individual attack. It also ensures that a crit will never get the...

Because by Tier II you couldn't roll enough HP to actually put the spell caster to sleep. By changing it to a Wis save, you've got pretty good odds of doing so.

Yes, and works great! Another small bug, the dice roller doesn't automatically account for your exhaustion level using the new rules. One thing I did just notice that I haven't seen anyone mention yet, is that because the new Sleep spell gives the incapacitated condition, and the new...

Got in and boy is that Rules Glossary great! Got started building a Monk character (based on my first BG3 character) and the new character creation process does feel nicely streamlined. Only issue I ran into is a bug where my grapple and shove DCs are calculating off of Str instead of Dex. I...

Exactly this. WotC is the only company pouring significant resources into expanding the TTRPG market through advertising, and as such, they reap most of the rewards from doing so. And with 2024, they remained focused on bringing a new generation of players into the hobby, as seen by the focus...

I enjoyed S1 and am loving S2 so far. My only real gripe is that they need to resolve who the Stranger is sooner rather than later. The Sauron twist last season worked well because it was important to show Sauron the deceiver, so the reveal worked with the characterization (and boy oh boy a...

If any fellow Souther Californians want to plan a day to meet at Universal for this, I'm down!

Because she also said it's releasing for PCs, which does not mean Windows only. If she had said the beta was Windows only, and they will get to Macs eventually, I wouldn't have asked for clarification.

I've asked for clarification because, again, PC can mean Windows, Mac and even Linux.

I asked in the General Discussion Forum on DDB yesterday but no answer as of yet. Fingers crossed. Edited to add: Also worth noting that the Unreal engine (which they're building on) is designed to output to both Mac and Windows. While some tweaking needs to be done for each OS, there's no...

I went by mine last weekend fearing the same thing, but was able to get one held for me!

I'm not arguing with the math, I'm arguing with the feeling. Never being able to roll less than a 6 on the die with a great sword is cool. Being able to roll a 15 damage with a single attack at 1st level is cool. The math isn't felt at the table. The floor increase is. I doubt any player...

Perhaps a 'sequel' to Dad:HAT?

We are 1 freaking week from being able to get the 2024 PHB on Beyond or from our FLGS (I'm getting from both). Even with all we've seen in previews from reviewers and hype from WotC, I can't wait to get my hands on the product and start to dig in! What are you most excited about for the new...

The fighting style is about raising your floor. It may not seem powerful in a white room, but I suspect it's pretty good in actual play. A 1st level great weapon master with a Great Sword is now doing a range of 9-15 damage per hit instead of 5-15. And remember that on a crit, the min is...

I don't want to sound overly optemistic here, but if the DM UI for this is AAA quality, Sigil could do a lot to close the DM shortage gap. For one, if it intuitively handles most of the combat bandwidth for DMs, making it much easier, that's one huge benifit. And if the dungeon designer UI is...

I think this is very unlikely. Lootbox monetization doesn't really fit a cooperative play game like D&D, so even if for some reason they tried it, I don't think people would buy, the product would fail, and whoever thought to implement it would be looking for work. I think it's much more...

Perhaps Demiplane becomes the Android of WotC's Apple? If this new marketplace is as successful for WotC as they hope, there will almost certainly be a competitor who enters the market to provide an alternative, and Demiplane is already supporting non-d20 based systems. If they could land an...