One think I found interesting is that they are planning two more Beast Companion choices. I suspect one will be able to swim and breath air and water, and the other will be venomous. Just a guess.
I remember that, and I wish they'd been able to incorporate it into the PHB. I've never liked the whole "Just use the monster stats, except for this bit and that other bit". Too fiddly.Interesting to me that he said that this style of pets/stats was something they'd done in the Next playtests.
I don't remember that version of the Druid's wildshape. I'll have to go back and look at my old playtest documents.
I think one will be water-based and the other fire-based in some way. Going just straight off Aristotle's four elements.One think I found interesting is that they are planning two more Beast Companion choices. I suspect one will be able to swim and breath air and water, and the other will be venomous. Just a guess.
I think one will be water-based and the other fire-based in some way. Going just straight off Aristotle's four elements.
I like what he says about multiclass dip prevention in the next round of development if it makes it past this round of development around 3 minutes in.
Well, yeah. He wasn’t worried about the balance of them, because they weren’t actually unbalanced. They probably simplified them simply to keep them very simple.The trouble is I'm just terrified that Jeremy Crawford will wimp out yet again. I mean, with Sidekicks, he talked an amazing game - he was like "You don't like powerful Sidekicks, you can just not use them!" and so on. And the UA looked good.
Then the actual product came out and everything he'd been saying was reversed, and Sidekicks were instead this ultra-generic-ass terrible boring thing that could be much better done by simply having a PC-style NPC who was a level or two behind the PCs. Like literally better.
EDIT - The way he's talking this pretty much 100% is not going to be a PHB revision, and sounds like it's going to be in an actual book.
EDIT - The way he's talking this pretty much 100% is not going to be a PHB revision, and sounds like it's going to be in an actual book.
The trouble is I'm just terrified that Jeremy Crawford will wimp out yet again. I mean, with Sidekicks, he talked an amazing game - he was like "You don't like powerful Sidekicks, you can just not use them!" and so on. And the UA looked good.
Then the actual product came out and everything he'd been saying was reversed, and Sidekicks were instead this ultra-generic-ass terrible boring thing
Heh, I never bought the Essentials Kit, so I'm not sure what the sidekick rules they settled on are and how they differ from the UA. Generic and boring sounds perfectly fine to me as someone who's just along to support my PC in solo play though.
Thanks for this specific thread.
I like what he says about multiclass dip prevention in the next round of development if it makes it past this round of development around 3 minutes in.
The way he's talking this pretty much 100% is not going to be a PHB revision, and sounds like it's going to be in an actual book
Guide To The Planes!!!!!Also interesting to note that in one of today's videos he said that one of their goals in this go-around was to limit the number of Subclasses tested through having these variant features do most of the lifting instead, and it sounded like it was due to limitations of the product in development. Given that the Subclass and Variant features in titaycp r to about 10-15% of a book, I'm doubling down on my hunch that this is not for a Xanathar's Guide style book.
Also interesting to note that in one of today's videos he said that one of their goals in this go-around was to limit the number of Subclasses tested through having these variant features do most of the lifting instead, and it sounded like it was due to limitations of the product in development. Given that the Subclass and Variant features in titaycp r to about 10-15% of a book, I'm doubling down on my hunch that this is not for a Xanathar's Guide style book.
This was already my prediction and it’s only looking more and more likely the more we find out.Guide To The Planes!!!!!
Lol I mean, maybe. Who knows.
It’s definitely a hopeful guess.
Guide To The Planes!!!!!
Lol I mean, maybe. Who knows.
It’s definitely a hopeful guess.
I think that's kind of dubious logic, but I do think a Planes/Planescape book is a decent place for these (almost no groups would object to it, as almost every D&D setting uses the planes and Planescape is basically canon, though in the sadly "Monte Cook took a giant crap all over it" format rather than the beautiful thing Zeb Cook - no relation - gave us). Whereas putting them in some book full of Greyhawk stuff would be enraging.
I'd be unsurprised to see WotC split the difference, actually and have "X's guide to the Planes", with a sort of Xanathar-style personality guiding us through the Planes. Just so long as it's not some GOOGLY-MOOGLY has-been Forgotten Realms "celeb" like Volo. He can go back into retirement. Bring us a REAL NPC from Planescape. Someone who says "berk" non-ironically.
(Note: portions of this post may not be intended seriously - adding this before someone decides to defend Volo's "honour" or something equally mad!)