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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9394771" data-attributes="member: 93670">They said a lot of stuff, but we are exclusively seeing things like the Lead Rules Designer excited to share with us how a warlock subclass is going to be a thing that "[The DM] will hate" and that really cranks the clarity of focus overall of the excitement shown so far for things like[spoiler="Weapons Mastery"][ATTACH=full]370762[/ATTACH][/spoiler]2014 emptied so much of the GM's toolbox to strip away memeworthy complaints about golfbags with weapons that took into account the GMN's needs & such... yet here we are woth wotc themselves making jokes about it while still vcontinuing the exclusive laser like focus on the character sheet in both the hype videos/articles and every page across all nine of the UA's.Despite all of that wotc have not so much as hinted about mechanical hooks & levers or anything more concrete than vaguely hollow terms like "better" & "improved" without so much as a few seconds of discussion about how they plan to accomplish that.That remains to be seen because simply giving players the option of drinking a potion with a bonus action does not cause them to rise above the black hole of yoyo/wackamole healing's extreme incentive event horizon as long.  If it were anything but a way to grant players even more power & survivability and there was an interest in including any sort of dm advocate in the hype train we should have heard about the changes to death saves or whatever that the bonus action was meant to bookend.This is 100% my experience.  Worried that perhaps it might be a concern over availability I gave them all one of:[spoiler="these potions"][ATTACH=full]370773[/ATTACH][/spoiler]with a d8 for the die and the group doubled down to the point of even dismissing the idea of risk when I would point out how bob is actually down or whatever</blockquote>

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