Phaezen
Adventurer
So, D20Monkey http://www.d20monkey.com/ got the bard preview:
Go for the bard preview, stay for the comic.
Go for the bard preview, stay for the comic.
D&D 5E A bard walks into a bar
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Ruin Explorer
Legend
Damn it, they cut off at the important bit - Bardic Inspiration - so we don't know if it still sucks hard (as it does in the Alpha) or is awesome (as it was in the October Playtest)!
Fingers crossed for that to have been upgraded.
If not, I'll sit around and hope for a Bard who isn't a full caster, but who has a lot more in the way of, y'know Bard stuff!
Theme/art/fluff-wise seems pretty good, at least.
Fingers crossed for that to have been upgraded.
If not, I'll sit around and hope for a Bard who isn't a full caster, but who has a lot more in the way of, y'know Bard stuff!
Theme/art/fluff-wise seems pretty good, at least.
Savage Wombat
Hero
Somebody's about to get brained with that guitar.
TwoSix
"Diegetics", by L. Ron Gygax
If nothing else, the PHB is shaping up to be a very pretty book. I loved 4e, but I was never on board with the pristine white pages. The multipage art and the colored pages are really working for me.
Still totally jazzed that the bard is finally a full caster, and it's a strong contender for my first 5e character. Plus, vicious mockery as a cantrip and thunderwave as a first level spell? Be still my 4venger heart!
Still totally jazzed that the bard is finally a full caster, and it's a strong contender for my first 5e character. Plus, vicious mockery as a cantrip and thunderwave as a first level spell? Be still my 4venger heart!
TwoSix
"Diegetics", by L. Ron Gygax
Beleriphon
Totally Awesome Pirate Brain
That bard is metal. Seroiusly, look at that lute. I totally want a legit electric lute. I'm making a half-orc bard named D'av Groll so I can have an electric lute.
Yet another preview that omits the crucial "class features" page. They sure like to tease us.
Also, I have now started applying the following mental caption any time I see a bard gripping a lute like that: "I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday! I was barely seventeen, and I once killed a boy with a fender guitar."
(Please note that I say one of the reasons, not the only reason. Vicious mockery was just the most prominent example of what I hated about the class. In early 4E, they went way overboard converting everything into a damaging attack power, whether it made sense or not. With the bard, it almost never made sense; the result was a class that needed to be completely reskinned for me to not find it absurd, and since the player wasn't deeply committed to playing a bard, it wasn't worth the effort.)
Also, I have now started applying the following mental caption any time I see a bard gripping a lute like that: "I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday! I was barely seventeen, and I once killed a boy with a fender guitar."
Ugh, vicious mockery is back? Damn it. That power was one of the reasons I banned the bard class from my 4E campaigns. Combat was a joke--literally. The bard would make fun of enemies (in character) and they'd drop over dead. It was funny the first time, but it got old real fast.Plus, vicious mockery as a cantrip and thunderwave as a first level spell? Be still my 4venger heart!
(Please note that I say one of the reasons, not the only reason. Vicious mockery was just the most prominent example of what I hated about the class. In early 4E, they went way overboard converting everything into a damaging attack power, whether it made sense or not. With the bard, it almost never made sense; the result was a class that needed to be completely reskinned for me to not find it absurd, and since the player wasn't deeply committed to playing a bard, it wasn't worth the effort.)
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Remathilis
Legend
For those of you assembling your own PHB at home, here are the pages cut into separate images.
Kobold Avenger
Legend
Things I've noticed changed from the playtest:
Bards get D8 Hit Die just like I suspected they would.
And they get 5 ability score increases, which is more than I think they did in the playtest and now seems to be the minimum every class gets.
Song of rest, is now an ability for all bards.
Magical secrets is spread out around more levels, and they get 9th level spells (old news), and more spells known than the sorcerer it seems.
Bards get D8 Hit Die just like I suspected they would.
And they get 5 ability score increases, which is more than I think they did in the playtest and now seems to be the minimum every class gets.
Song of rest, is now an ability for all bards.
Magical secrets is spread out around more levels, and they get 9th level spells (old news), and more spells known than the sorcerer it seems.
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