D&D 5E (2014) D&D Next playtest post mortem by Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson. From seven years ago.

[SkidAce]

Because of the basic concept.

That's it.

Just like people want a magical warrior type, but don't have it, a lot of other people want a character whose primary deal is that they're a skilled warrior, in armour, probably with a sword of some kind. I will say it seems to rather less popular with younger players than older, in my experience anyway. Whereas say, Rogue is as popular as it ever was.

We get a lot of generic fighters (the chassis) in our games.

I feel they are still as popular, and find their "generic" nature helps build a wide spectrum of archetypes.

Anecdotally of course...

 

[SkidAce]

Yeah I feel like older Millennials and maybe a little younger were so exposed to images of/writing about cool fantasy warriors (who typically have magical powers, nor were outright berserkers) that this sort of overcame the "sounds dull" factor. But people much younger than say 35 likely grew up playing videogames and watching TV where warriors tended to have at least flashy martial-arts-style powers, which, to be fair, in 4E, Fighters did have, but 5E's whole unacknowledged "apology edition" deal meant they took that and anything much like that away.

And what's particularly damning is fantasy warriors today who aren't flashy martial arts types or using actual magic as well, tend to be very skilled individuals, very knowledgeable/talented. But D&D Fighters aren't even that. They're arguably the very worst, least-skilled class out of combat, which doesn't fit at all.

I like the main gist of your idea....but it bothers me how often you bring out "apology edition"

But I respect your thoughts.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OH! Oh. Crap. HAH!

I misunderstood. I thought this was D&D One's playtest post-mortem.

I am, often, a fool. And today is no different!

To support you, I spent quite awhile trying to figure out when this was from. I suspected that it was not new, but I wasn't 100% sure.

 

[darjr]

To support you, I spent quite awhile trying to figure out when this was from. I suspected that it was not new, but I wasn't 100% sure.

Ope! Updated the title and put a note in the post.

 

[Mistwell]

I haven't listened to all of it yet and I want to give it another listen. I'll note that the auto transcript of youtube is also helpful.

Thanks, cool stuff! As you note, 7 parts. here are all the links to the Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson ones

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Link 7

 

[Mistwell]

Here is a second series of videos, this time from Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford, in six parts. This one appears to be more focused on art and inclusivity issues in 5e.

Link 1
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Link 5
Link 6

 

[darjr]

Thanks for the art ones!

FYI my link is to a playlist
I’ll update the OP.

 

[Retreater]

So when are we going to see the D&D One Playtest Post-Mortem videos? I think the survey closes later this week, right?

 

[darjr]

So when are we going to see the D&D One Playtest Post-Mortem videos? I think the survey closes later this week, right?

Hopefully we’ll get interim videos like this one from the Next playtest. Note I haven’t finished listening to it.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

So when are we going to see the D&D One Playtest Post-Mortem videos? I think the survey closes later this week, right?

I doubt we will... maybe (at most) maybe we will get some fo teh feed back in Oct when they do the next playtest...