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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 9253380" data-attributes="member: 52905">raw transcript in spoiler.[spoiler]hello everyone today we are talkingabout Unearthed Arana and we got somevery exciting survey results and we havea bunch of other updates but this was avery well scored survey yes it waswonderful to enter into the new year andsee the survey report that our staffmembers went through carefully looked atthe feedback and discovered that peoplereally loved overall what we offered inunearth Arcana number eight for theplayers hbook that UA was focused on theDruid the Monk and theBarbarian and all three of the classesthe features that we presented scoredreally well starting with the Druid thefeatures that we presented there whichwere a revised wild shape and uh revisedfeatures for circle of the Moon thoseall scored in the 70s and above and forpeople who haven't been with usthroughout this journey always good foryou to know that our goal is for thingsto score a 70% satisfaction score orhigher and we we view that as afloor and once something has sort oflanded on the 70% % satisfaction floorwe then in our internal development andplay testing look at what satisfiedpeople who took this survey and how canwe increase the volume so I bring thatup to say the on Earth Arcana is neverthe end of our work it's an importantinformation Point that's a part of ourgame development work and we can look atit and see all right people really likethis and how can we give them more ofthat so it was really good news for usthat the circle of the Moon features andwild shape now are in the satisfiedterritory now when we get to thefeatures that we offered in theBarbarian and monk there we are in theSuper satisfied territory so theBarbarian features that we presentedwhich focused on introducing uh thebrutal strike mechanic a new activefeature that we offered for theBarbarian there we're looking atsatisfaction scores in the 80s we alsohad a revised version of the path of theworld tree also scored in the80s so assoon as you are in the 80s you arelooking at really highsatisfaction but we then went evenhigher in themonk so and the Monkmight might finish out this playershandbook on Arc series as the mostimproved class now for a while I wasready to give that award to the rangerright and the ranger was is astoundinglywell uh positioned right now because itit was low scored in the past and nowthe class is in the 80s well right hereat the end of the race of most Improvproved the monk zoomed past the rangerappropriateexactly the monk spend spent some oftheir now more plentiful disciplinepoints to race past the Ranger and mostof the features that we offered in thatrevised version of the monk were in the'90s in terms of percentage now it israre for us in the UA process and thisis true for the UA process going backthe past decade it is rare for things tomake it into the '90s one of the reasonswhy it's difficult for things to getinto the 90s is the DN audience is solarge and has such varied tastes so youknow there might be something that oneperson dearly loves in in a subclass ora feat or a spell or another feature ofthe game that we present that theyreally love but there might be somebodyelse where it's just not their thingyeah so it's really unusual given uh thesize and and diversity of our audiencefor something to generate so muchunified satisfaction for it to startapproaching 100% satisfaction right andwe actually saw that with several of thefeatures uh in this revised monk nowthere's more because because thatunearth Arcana also presentedrevised versions of several of thegame's core healing spells cure woundshealing word and others those all scoredin the 80s right and we also presentedsome new takes on some of theconjuration spells from the 2014 Playershandbook we knew that they wereexperimental uh the 2014 versions ofthose spells allowed you to summon oneor more creatures Within a certain uh CRrange and people who've played withthose spells know that they can be quitefun but they can also be quitedisruptive right and so we experimentedwith some totally new takes on thosespells uh versions of them that reallyuh moved away from summoning a statblock and instead summoning a specialeffect that's themed to Fay or animalsor Elementals or one of the other kindsof things that you could conjure withthem we did that because in the 2024players handbook we're going to beincluding the summoning spells that weoriginally introduced in Tasha'scauldron of everything and those spellssummon a creature with a stat block andso since we were going to have thesespells coexisting we wanted to takethose Troublesome ones from 2014 andgive them a new role in the game wellthe good news is it was thumbs up acrossthe board uh for those revisedconjuration spells they all scored inthe high 70s or in the 80s in terms ofsatisfaction this UA is the last UA forthe players handbook uh coming out laterthis year and so it really ended this UAseries on a high note and now we aredeep and have been for months deep inour internaldevelopment not only developing theelements that have appeared in the UAseries but also the elements thathaven't uh there are going to be somebrand new spells that people will see inthe new players handbook that will besurprises as well as some other newfeatures everything is getting verycareful polishedas we try to make this the best playershandbook the game has ever had uh now Imentioned we're going to be working onthis for a while yeah and we did apreview of some parts of the playershandbook as well as some art back at PAunplugged well I was informed thatapparently when we were when we were onstage I I guess a graphic appeared uhonline that said that the core bookswere coming out like in May or somethingyeah bit of a surprise for you and I itwas a huge surprise to me as the personwho is the lead designer of the playershandbook uh and uh I just want toconfirm with you and as well as everyonewatching this video that is definitelynot the release date that was never therelease date in fact uh we will still beworking on the books in May yeah so justwanted to share that uh also saw uh thatI guess some people thought that theimage of the dwarf fighter was the coverof the players's handbook we have notrevealed the covers yet that's going tohappen later this year that cool imagewas an image and I mentioned this at thepanel at Pax unplugged is a cool imagefrom the fighter section of the newplayers handbook and my goodness is thatbook jam-packed with Gorgeous art yeahbecause for each class we have this thisamazing piece of art to kind of likehelp kind of cement and Define like thisis what a fighter is this is a warlockand then on top of that we have subclasses that are getting their ownindividual art as well exactly and thebook is just ribbing with art everywhereyou go there's art yes uh is lovely yeahevery subass gets a piece of art uhyou're going to see uh more equipmentart than in the 2014 pH more spell artuh all over everywhere you look in thisbook you're going to see beautiful newart but is you know but with this beingthe last on of Tarana isn't the player'shandbook done no far far far from it Iknow yeah and and we are working on allthree of the core books uh together yeahso uh as we continue to refine elementsof the players handbook we are alsodoing tons of internal play testing onthe revised monsters that will be in themonster manual along with the newencounter building approach that uhwe're dealing with you and I havechatted in previous videos that we mightsend out that new encounter building inUnearthedArana right now we're focused on playtesting that internally instead and uhwhat we've discovered is just usiterating on it over and over and overagain is bearing amazing fruit and whatI can report is that what people aregoing to see in the revised dungeonMasters Guide is a much streamlinedencounter building system oh nice uhwhere you are able to just figure outwhat is essentially your budget forMonsters if you're going for a certaindifficulty yeah and you spend thatbudget the end and it it's going to bethat simple of a process oh that'samazing yeah so I'm I'm looking forwardto us uh sharing that with people laterthis year uh and we are also continuingour work on the dungeon Masters Guide uhwe of course have many magic itemsmaking sure you know we're going throughthem making sure that the ones that workgreat from 2014 will continue to workgreat and the ones that maybe uh needsome attention and tweaks get thatattention uh so it it there is a lotgoing on but it's exciting and for us onour design team a really wonderful wayfor us to be spending our time duringthe game's 50th Anniversary uh becausefor us one of the best ways for us tocelebrate 50 years of our favorite gameis to create new versions of the corebooks uh what versions that uh we thinkwill really honor the game honor itsLegacy give people uh exciting newoptions and really be this Monument tothis glorious game that many of us havebeen playing for most of our lives thereare announcements and events that willbe coming up uh over the course of theyear and uh I look forward to being ableto not only help make some of themhappen but I'm looking forward to themas a D and D fan uh DND has been with mealmost my entire life and uh I am a dand and are close in age to each otheruh and so really I have been walkinghand inand with this game uh sincealmost the beginning Jeremy thank you somuch for your time thankyou[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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