D&D (2024) Firearms to be made a fixed part of the game, new Weapons Rules

[Saracenus]

Every setting that is ever coming back?

Ouch. I am holding out a slim hope that Greyhawk will get the 50 anniversary treatment but then hope springs eternal.

Yeah Greyhawk didn't have gunpowder just as AD&D didn't have it in the core books either. Personally, I have gunpowder/smoke powder in my personal Greyhawk campaign, but they were not in the official published campaign.

 

[Horwath]

now if we only get more set DC examples for skills and tools.

if that is true, then great.

Human, elf, orc and dwarf should be enough of core races.
maybe add halfling and gnome, but with real advantages and disadvantages for being small.

 

[tetrasodium]

now if we only get more set DC examples for skills and tools.

Preferably one that scales to cover the edg of what high level specialists can do like the 3.x one. Having a list that caps out early with a range scales to generalists and dump stats creates the illusion that specialists should automatically succeed no matter what simply because there is nothing more difficult capable of existing

 

[Horwath]

Preferably one that scales to cover the edg of what high level specialists can do like the 3.x one. Having a list that caps out early with a range scales to generalists and dump stats creates the illusion that specialists should automatically succeed no matter what simply because there is nothing more difficult capable of existing

having examples of DCs from 5 to 30 is good enogh.
also penalties should be little more nuanced except all present disadvantage.

 

[tetrasodium]

having examples of DCs from 5 to 30 is good enogh.
also penalties should be little more nuanced except all present disadvantage.

30 caps out in tier one but PCs continue to advance. It might be a good cap when players are sporting a max of 16(+3) +2+2 for d20+7 but not so much when they are sporting something closer to 20(+5)+6+6 with advantage for 2d20k1+17... The old scale covered that swing to include the extreme edge of extreme specialists, you can see it in this post

D&D General - Hot Take: D&D Has Not Recovered From 2E to 3.0 Transition

That's not really a treadmill. Should equal tier challenges just get easier as you go up in level? It's not like the DC to climb a 20' wall increases. You're just more likely to be doing more epic things as you go up in level, that should have a higher DC. First level PC's climb slippery walls...

www.enworld.org

 

[Horwath]

30 caps out in tier one but PCs continue to advance. It might be a good cap when players are sporting a max of 16(+3) +2+2 for d20+7 but not so much when they are sporting something closer to 20(+5)+6+6 with advantage for 2d20k1+17... The old scale covered that swing to include the extreme edge of extreme specialists, you can see it in this post

D&D General - Hot Take: D&D Has Not Recovered From 2E to 3.0 Transition

That's not really a treadmill. Should equal tier challenges just get easier as you go up in level? It's not like the DC to climb a 20' wall increases. You're just more likely to be doing more epic things as you go up in level, that should have a higher DC. First level PC's climb slippery walls...

www.enworld.org

Those DCs in 5e work quite well if you use 3d6 for skill checks.
DC scale is not the problem, d20 is.

 

[Tonguez]

This tweet is categorically incorrect. Greyhawk has never had firearms, as gunpowder doesn't work there. The lone exception to this is the "6 shooters" belonging to Myrlund, but those are actually wands.

Greyhawk did however have Smoke powder (usable by Murlynds priest at level 10) and it also featured an arquebus and of course a blaster rifle. Plus the aforemention Murlynd.

indeed the reason I have no problem with guns in D&D is because functionally they are just fancy wands

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Greyhawk did however have Smoke powder (usable by Murlynds priest at level 10) and it also featured an arquebus and of course a blaster rifle. Plus the aforemention Murlynd.

indeed the reason I have no problem with guns in D&D is because functionally they are just fancy wands

They're more like expensive crossbows with slightly more damage and less range.

 

[Weiley31]

I'm gonna be crazy enough to use not only the Mastery system but ALSO the OG Squire of Solamnia feat from the Heroes of Krynn Revisited UA which gave a number of D6 Superiority Die equal to the Proficiency Score.

Also, I low-key like the idea that the Fighter can swap around Mastery Properties. (Even though its only two).

 

[Weiley31]

So only one mastery gets applied at a time still, not both?

Basically, Fighters are badass enough to be able to have two masteries. Everybody else gets only one.