WotC’s Ray Winninger has hinted on Twitter that we may be seeing something of the 2024 next edition of D&D soon — “you’ll get a first look at some of the new design work soon.”.
Me here praying for a swordmage class.please bring back the mystic.
The genre expectations haven't shifted that much from then: Wheel of Time itself, next to Harry Potter, is probably the most influential fictional space for rational systemized magic.the thing is it seems like it now today is cutting edge of spell casting systems for 22 years ago... it is the most dogmatic not updated part of the game.
having the warlock able to mage armor, speak with animals and detect magic at will while other casters (sorcerers are magic born but can't detect that well, druids are the nature people and can't speak with animals that well) shows the hang up of the vancian ssytem...
somewhere WotC KNOWS and has shown that some of these higher level spells (even speak with dead) can be at will and not mess with balance.
As a fellow LU user, there is a cost though in terms of time and complexity. My group does take longer to resolve turns as they are rolling more dice and having to remember bonuses. I can't tell you how many times they (or I) forget about their little specialization bonuses.I vastly prefer Level Up's widespread usage of expertise dice to supplement advantage/disadvantage to just using a/d alone.
To be fair, a huge chunk of the D&D audience has no experience with other games.It's weird that no one complains when another system is designed with a very tight core mechanic (dice pool success counting, for example) and uses it for everything, but then complains when D&D does, even though the same people likely praised 3E exactly for bringing in a core mechanic.
Gamers are a weird lot.
I'm with you on the 3d terrain part, but personally I don't think there's much to be gained from avatars of the rest of the group that video chat doesn't provide well enough. At least not with bulky headsets on and such. Maybe when we have holorooms, or AR contacts.... I am not particularly looking for a 3d map for D&D play or an AR app for table play. What I want is telepresence. VR representations of the players in the same virtual room that supports the any standard VTT for the tactical stuff instead of dungeon tiles or a flipmat in the real world.
That is what I mean about when the technology has improved.I'm with you on the 3d terrain part, but personally I don't think there's much to be gained from avatars of the rest of the group that video chat doesn't provide well enough. At least not with bulky headsets on and such. Maybe when we have holorooms, or AR contacts...
At the time it came out it had a lot of praise. That you, 8 years later, wouldn't call it interesting is really of no import to if it was interesting to many people back then.Its a good, if overused mechanic, but I wouldn't call it an interesting one.
You seem to be confusing "what you prefer" to interesting.I vastly prefer Level Up's widespread usage of expertise dice to supplement advantage/disadvantage to just using a/d alone.