D&D (2024) First playtest thread! One D&D Character Origins.

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

While I agree with the end-goal of enabling more mixed race options without having to create a new, unique racial statblock for every possible permutation, I am curious how the removal of Half-Elves and Half-Orcs will be represented with the Dragonmarked versions in Eberron...

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

D20 test? Can someone explain what I'm missing, or sure it's obvious.

I figured inspiration just went away, always forget about it.

Are feats not considered optional? I assume if I want to ignore feats I just make a character from my 2014 PHB?

They are part of the backgrounds now, but I would not feel bad about just removing them if you do not play with feats.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah, moving ASI to backgrounds seems like a big bit of tradition to kill. Floating ASI is one thing, having it based on background instead of race seems...almost un-D&D like.

Savage Attacker. I was wondering how long it would take them to apply advantage to more than just d20 rolls. Wonder why they don't just call it advantage. Weird.

Tavern Brawler. Monks have a few good reasons to take this now.

Long Rests. Good to see some sanity has returned. They finally made it explicit that combat interrupts a rest, not the ridiculous one hour of combat reading.

Short Rests...despite the phrase appearing a few times in the document, it's not actually defined here.

 

[Cadence]

I just skimmed... there is no short rest in the glossary, or in any mechanic.

The glossary is only for:

Did any of the things quoted in it so far previously have a short rest?
(I'm not a huge fan of short rest recharge abilities... but I agree that would be a big change if they did them in).

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

It's an AoE, so yeah, it is.

Disagree. We've been playing it as a bonus action for years now, and it still sucks. You rarely catch 2+ creatures, and frequently your allies and other important stuff are in the way.

Then again, some people thought giving up your action to have your wolf bite someone was good action economy and we all know how well that played out.

 

[Weiley31]

It seems like dragonborn should have gem and other new dragon types.

I have to admit I was shocked not to see the Gem Dragonborn breath types. But this is PHB races, so I guess it somewhat makes sense to start there and not overload everybody.

 

[Scribe]

how is errata any diffrent in this context form NOT back compatable?

Adventures, core mechanics, will still run under the same systems and constraints?

To be clear, it's all preemptive PR speak, it won't be fully the same, as they are clearly changing things.

But they will skate by on a technicality.

 

[rooneg]

Yeah, moving ASI to backgrounds seems like a big bit of tradition to kill. Floating ASI is one thing, having it based on background instead of race seems...almost un-D&D like.

It's only specific ASIs for a given background if you aren't building your own. Build your own is the default though, so you can always build "Exactly like Guard, but with different stats" if you want.

 

[Vaalingrade]

A DM never “accidentally” kills a player. It’s either the will of the dice or he does it on purpose.

Following the will of the dice when it doesn't benefit the game is at least a mistake, if not an accident.

 

[Cadence]

D20 test? Can someone explain what I'm missing, or sure it's obvious.