D&D (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook preview: "New Spells"

[dave2008]

What's a "Bastion"?

Is this a joke or an honest question?

 

[Kilimanjaro]

Not originally, but Bigby wasn't originally a Gnome.

This Evard has weird skin, but no Elf features? Could be Warlock weirdness?

I think 4th Edition made Evard a Shade.

 

[dave2008]

"[NEW] PRAYER OF HEALING boosted and gives the benefit of a Short Rest (1/day)"

Short rest? Hopefully this spell has some limits for use.

Isn't the limit right there in the part you quoted: "1/day."

 

[Charlaquin]

/small tangent

I find enforcing the touch requirement, and asking then to RP their character doing it, and reminding them its obvious spell casting (V,S) slows it down enough to be tolerable.

"Clerichand walks over to where the king is debating granting aid with the group's leader, Warstrike, and touches the fighter 'Asmodeus grant you his favor in this debate'.

Hehe.

It also helps to require the action being guided to be completed within the 1-minute duration of the spell.

 

[Stormonu]

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

Been so, all after that incident with the Giant.

Don't go asking after Tenser and his Manes days, I think he's still upset about that.
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Good to hear Blade Ward and True Strike will get some sort of fix to make them usable.

I hope, but doubt they've broken polymorph out into polymorph self, polymorph other and baneful polymorph. Or at the very least, re-assessed the "of CR = caster/target level" silliness (it should be a fixed CR, based on the SPELL level, not CASTER level at least. I think it's the only spell that got missed on the change-over from previous editions).

I think it's a bit of a shame, almost criminal that there isn't a simple elemental-damage-add weapon cantrip spell. Add like a d4 or d6 fire/ice/thunder/acid/lightning to a weapon attack, like a scaled down flamestongue/frostblade weapon for eldritch knight/hexblade/ranger/paladin types.

And I am not letting the Tasha Summon spells within 100 feet of my game, I'll stick with the old Conjure spells, even with their warts.

 

[Charlaquin]

I have to do this...

Technically, everything gets death saves by default. DMs are just advised to not bother for most NPCs.

The wording in the 2014 PHB suggests to me the opposite approach to the same destination: monsters and NPCs don’t get death saves by default, but the DM is encouraged to let some important NPCs have them as a special exception.

 

[Charlaquin]

In Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, he recounts how he had a fatal incident with a giant's club, and (supposedly) the best Mordenkainen could do was have someone cast reincarnation, causing him to return as a gnome. He very much suspects that Mordenkainen chose that option for the lolz.

That’s actually hilarious

 

[Yaarel]

Mixed ancestry, maybe? Would be consistent with the UA approach of “pick one to get the benefits from and mix-and-match descriptive traits as you like.” Mechanically a human, but got purple skin from drow heritage.

Could be, and could be atavistic with a more distant ancestor being a Drow Elf, and its traits skipping some generations before him.

Alternatively. The Greyhawk lore connects Evard with Necromancy. In context he raised an Undead army in an attempted conquest of the region of Bissel in the 500s CY. Perhaps Necromancy in the wider sense, including Fiends and Aberrations (compare Necronomicon), relates the Black Tentacles to Aberration magic whence the alteration of his purplish skin?

 

[Parmandur]

That’s actually hilarious

I honestly thought it was kind of an ingenious way to lampshade that they were intentionally diversifying the core Greyhawk cast of named mega-Mages.

 

[DarkCrisis]

"CURE WOUNDS cures more damage"

LOL of course it does. Ties in great with bonus action potion drinking.