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

[Parmandur]

I suspect we'll soon find that MoM is more "inspired" by 1D&D than actually part of the new edition.

We already have both Monsters of the Multiverse and the new PHB Race rules. They are the same.

 

[Justice and Rule]

Tabarnak....

Don't swear.

 

[Ancalagon]

Don't swear.

don't tone police, especially in such circumstances

 

[OB1]

Yeah, I think gaining easier Inspiration so that you can sneak attack more reliably will likely be reasonable compensation for not getting to double SA damage on a crit.

That's an interesting way to think about it. So Nat20 Inspiration is the new Crit rule (and also expanded to all d20 tests), and weapon damage crits are a power bump to weapon users.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Is the biggest benefit of NPCs in the monster books not being stat-ed up like PCs and using spell-like effects instead of spells... that most of them should work the same after the PHB changes?

If you consider that a benefit.

 

[Justice and Rule]

don't tone police, especially in such circumstances

The ghost of ma mère would not appreciate it. Also apparently the joke didn't carry.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

We already have both Monsters of the Multiverse and the new PHB Race rules. They are the same.

No they're not.

 

[Parmandur]

No they're not.

Yes, yes they are. The formatting and rules are entirely transparent. Crawford admitted that isbehat theybhad done, and you can read the book and thebplaytest packet.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's an interesting way to think about it. So Nat20 Inspiration is the new Crit rule (and also expanded to all d20 tests), and weapon damage crits are a power bump to weapon users.

So they are really forcing inspiration at this point. I guess they didn't like how little folks used it before.

 

[Minigiant]

That's the paradox in the arguments for why fixed racial ASIs are so necessary. It amounts to "Goliaths are way stronger than Halflings, and that should be represented by a +1 on d20." You'd have to give them +10 strength for it to even begin to address the realism argument.

A colorful racial ability goes so much farther in portraying the strength of a Goliath than does an ASI.

What I've been saying since I got in the hobby.

"The description only makes sense if I got a +8"
"That's OP!"