D&D (2024) Anyone else surprised they didn't do a Forgotten Realms Feats, Spells, and Circle Casting UA?

[Distracted DM]

They do have a larger internal playtest community than most TTRPGs have players

Can you elaborate on their internal playtest community?

 

[bedir than]

Can you elaborate on their internal playtest community?

Before things make a UA they've already gone through a playtest with large group of players who sign NDAs and such.
It's not like they're this weird company that only develops in public with no private work whatsoever.

 

[dave2008]

The only time I was on the D&D forums was during the D&D Next Playtest. I don't know if that was Gleemax or not, but it was really toxic during the playtest. Everyone got super divided on different things (damage on a miss and martial healing being the biggest), and if you disagreed with someone, they acted like you were literally Hitler. It was awful, and I almost stopped with the playtest until I found ENWorld.

I was on them all throughout 4e and until they closed. People always have opinions and some feel passionate about them. I never take internet chatter personally, so I guess I never felt much of a difference between the WotC forums and EnWorld.

 

[pukunui]

The only time I was on the D&D forums was during the D&D Next Playtest. I don't know if that was Gleemax or not, but it was really toxic during the playtest. Everyone got super divided on different things (damage on a miss and martial healing being the biggest), and if you disagreed with someone, they acted like you were literally Hitler. It was awful, and I almost stopped with the playtest until I found ENWorld.

There was plenty of that stuff here at EN World at the time as well.

 

[Parmandur]

They have shown some willingness to bring some small Setting specific bits in without UA testing (Wildemount, for example). I Van imagine that the Feat elements they have planned are basic enough and tied enough into established FR lore that they don't feel a need to publicly test little bits and cons like they do with Subclasses or new Classes.

They didn't test the revised Eberron Species, either.