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

[Yaarel]

I want 2024 to be the edition that stops referring to "spell level", in contrast to "class level".

Spell level really is confusing for people. Even when I am familiar with it, I find my sentences becoming unnecessarily convoluted when I happen to be talking about class level and spell level at the same time, plus spell slots.

This has to stop!

I would be fine with refer to all spells by "spell points". So, Fireball is a 3-point spell. Wall of Force is a 5-point spell.

It doesnt have to be called "points". At this point, anything is better than "levels".

 

[Minigiant]

Didn't all the half-elven in Tolkien have to pick one side or the other?

Sure.

But few played D&D that way. D&D 5e was heavily pushing an outcast or negotiator route.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

And yet, because the all-important math isn't being changed, somehow all this stuff doesn't make this a new edition? This is at least a 1e-2e shift.

thank you

 

[Mistwell]

First Level (UA) Feat Ranking:
Top Tier: Lucky, Alert, Magic Initiate
Middle Tier: Healer, Tavern Brawler, Tough, Musician
Bottom Tier: Skilled, Savage Attacker, Crafter

 

[overgeeked]

the thing is this is an elf or human reskinned... for the last 30 years at least half elf has NOT been just a human or elf that looks different but a distinctive choice... and again for something that promise "We are only adding new things not taking things away" they have taken away half orc and half elf...

We do not know that these are all the races that will be available for the entirety of the playtest. It's jumping the gun just a little, tiny bit to say that since half-orcs and half-elves aren't in this very first playtest doc on the very first day that therefore they are gone from D&D.

 

[Aldarc]

And I think he was just an elf with a different name...

I think the closest to half-elves were the Dunedains (like Aragorn). But then they were mostly human...

I still think there should be an optional rule that allows to mix features of different races to create a half x/y variant.

Yeah, if I were to play a Dunedain, I would probably pick a half-elf as it has a similar niche.

 

[Gammadoodler]

I don't like killing players.

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

When DMs start killing players, it's a pretty clear sign that there is a problem with how people are observing the social contract at the table.

Homicide does not typically belong in the DM toolbox.

 

[Sir Brennen]

actually I think, surprised needs to be a condition too. But maybe we get a better overhaul...

It's weird... Surprised is treated like a condition under Incapacitated, where you get Disadvantage on Initiative. But it doesn't have its own entry in the Glossary.

Kind of like being Paralyzed means you also have the Incapacitated condition in the current rules.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

But as a player using the book you have (2014 or 2024) does that change anything as far as being able to play still and not be too off power-wise?

Just updated to include the Feat. Problem solved.

yes you can just use the 2024 book... but is that still useing the 2014 booK? as for how much power it is, I don't know but it more likely then not will get you told "Here, use this book instead"

 

[Weiley31]

I can't wait for the next Beyond UA test packet to have not only the Half-Elf and the Half-Orc, but also an errata fix for the Hadozee's jump glide and Chameleon Carapace for Thri-Kreen Monks!