Black Flag Black Flag Playtest 2: Magic, Luck, Fighter, Wizards!

Kobold Press has released the 2nd playtest package for its Project Black Flag, which showcases magic, the luck system, and the fighter and wizard classes.

Black Flag is the codename for Kobold Press' open source 5E 'replacement' game.

 

[James Gasik]

Battle Mage is the all star so far in my opinion. You get an improved version of the Abjuration arcane ward, plus an improved version of the Evocation Wizard's power to make your spells "friendly"- right there, I'm sold. And Contingency Plan? WOW! Being able to have a second chance to get a spell to have an effect is amazing! Especially since two of those abilities are unlimited use!

 

[TerraDave]

Just started reading and can already tell that a lot is here. But Last Stand feels so 4e. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[TerraDave]

And they have split out feats and ASI. At 4th, 6th, and 8th level the fighter gets a +1 to an ability score and a talent.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

The standalone 'advanced 5E' backwards compatible tabletop RPG!

www.levelup5e.com

This guy gets it!

(And yeah A5E gets a lot of stuff spot-on honestly. I was pleased when I bought it.)

 

[Emberashh]

Im getting whiplash coming here and seeing general positivity when I just read through some Reddit threads and, yeesh, are the Reddit people not amused with this packet.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Also, one of the biggest benefits of getting away from WotC being the only source of core books is if we can finally bury 5E and D&D using the word "level" to mean at least three different concepts. Spell "circles" is a big win for clarity.

I am a fan of circles for spells. Feels like something people would actually say in-universe.

 

[darjr]

Im getting whiplash coming here and seeing general positivity when I just read through some Reddit threads and, yeesh, are the Reddit people not amused with this packet.

Really? Well.

 

[Emberashh]

Really? Well.

To be fair, theres a reason the best description of r/dndnext is that its a sub populated by people still pissed off about a 10 year old playtest lol. The reddit DND communities are very hit or miss and tend to congregate the great mass of people who don't really play the game but just engage in its Lonely fun.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Im getting whiplash coming here and seeing general positivity when I just read through some Reddit threads and, yeesh, are the Reddit people not amused with this packet.

There are a lot of people who are mad at Kobold Press (and WotC, for that matter) for failing to live up to design goals that neither company has espoused.

 

[aco175]

To be fair, theres a reason the best description of r/dndnext is that its a sub populated by people still pissed off about a 10 year old playtest lol. The reddit DND communities are very hit or miss and tend to congregate the great mass of people who don't really play the game but just engage in its Lonely fun.

I'm still waiting on my jetpack I was promised.