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Yeah, I think it's mainly that second one - mystic and mystery derive from a Greek word for secret, usually used with secrets related to religious rites etc, just like you describe (in modern Greek it's spelt μυστήριον and pronounced mistEErion). Seems a good fit for the group

I'm also not keen on Priest/Divine/Clergy as the name of that group. Devout does seem broader, which is good. I saw someone suggest Favoured in a different thread, which would be good if included the warlock too. Spiritual? Mystic?

Class groups might end up being useful for multi-classing etc where you want to gate a feature on how many martial levels or caster levels a character has.

I would prefer for AC to also be affected (simply "-1 penalty to any D20 test you make, or is made against you") and a hard limit on 1 exhaustion level recovered via long rest and 1 via other means per day (suggest limit spells to Hero's Feast, Heal, Regenerate, Life Transference) unless via...

If it's about being able to do something with your lower level slots, why not just allow 2 slots at a given level to be used as 1 slot at the level above? So if you had 2x 1st level slots, you could use them to cast a 2nd level spell (that you have prepared). And if you have 2x 1st level slots...

Agree, needs the +1 AC to be worth taking now. An interesting idea that fits with historical use would be to routinely allow you to omit the second light weapon attack to gain +1 AC until the start of your next turn, or +2 AC if you have the feat.

This is a big plus and I've also seen people get given out an Inspiration d20 in the same way. Your Hero Dice is similar to the Hero Points option in the DMG so should work well (we have a variant, Heroic Effort, which uses your Hit Dice instead). I wonder how much of a playtest we'll get for...

The 10 level exhaustion track is the one in this latest One D&D UA (although exhaustion levels above 5 are pretty tough going!), although it's similar to what Horwath has championed for a while and to what I've used in my own homebrew. I liked Blue's comment about Inspiration being used more if...

Agreed, it's a huge improvement. It has a much smoother progression and it's meaningful: every level of exhaustion is like getting a -2 on all your ability scores. It makes exhaustion much easier to use as a mechanic. Dropping to 0HP, maybe failed saves, and maybe even as a another source of...

Ah, because it's the next casting duration step up from 1 round. Good

Why does Magic Action say 1 minute - are we going back to the 1 minute rounds of earlier D&D versions? "If you cast a Spell that has a casting time of 1 minute or longer, you must take the Magic Action on each turn of that casting, and you must maintain Concentration while you do so."

Is "surprised" gone? Seems to have been replaced by advantage/disadvantage on initiative rolls

I really like the new exhaustion rules. Similar to a variant I've used since @Horwath posted it here. Agree it seems to give lots of scope to pick up exhaustion from going to 0 HP or failing death throws (which we certainly do) but I'd like to also see you being able to buy Inspiration (i.e...

Inspiration grants a reroll. And you can take a level of exhaustion to gain inspiration (esp with the new 10 levels of cumulative exhaustion)

You called this one - looks like the new playtest agrees with you!

I'll take those odds :)

Any chance of seeing these as add-ons with the Dungeon Delver's Kickstarter?

How many kobolds (in a trenchcoat) count as a swarm? Asking for a friend...

I'd have no problem with adding full Strength / Dexterity bonus - they may be Tiny but if their Strength is 20 they can really get some force behind that toothpick and the big folk get to add just as much Strength bonus to their dagger attacks as their greataxe attacks. And I don't think they...

Yeah, had to be done :) Thanks for the feedback in developing it