D&D 5E (2024) Have the 2024 PHB Reveals changed your intentions re: purchasing D&D 2024/25?

[dave2008]

It doesn't look better than the Level Up Monstrous Menagerie, so I don't see the point personally.

While the monsters may or may not be as well designed (I think the jury is still out on that), it definitely looks better to me. I am specifically talking about art here, which I know you don't care about, but I couldn't resists because of you said "look."

 

[Micah Sweet]

While the monsters may or may not be as well designed (I think the jury is still out on that), it definitely looks better to me. I am specifically talking about art here, which I know you don't are about, but I couldn't resists because of you said "look."

I walked into that one.

 

[dave2008]

I walked into that one.

I will say I was not overlay impressed with Nixlord's books, I think Monster Menagerie is better. Similarly I was not overly impressed with Flee Mortals which I had high hopes for. I am not seeing anything in those books (Monster Menagerie included) that looks much better than what I am seeing in these previews. I like monster books so I was always going to get the 2024 MM, but I will say thus far I am happily surprised the design work is more thoughtful than 2014 and on par, IMO, with other monster books.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I will say I was not overlay impressed with Nixlord's books, I think Monster Menagerie is better. Similarly I was not overly impressed with Flee Mortals which I had high hopes for. I am not seeing anything in those books (Monster Menagerie included) that looks much better than what I am seeing in these previews. I like monster books so I was always going to get the 2024 MM, but I will say thus far I am happily surprised the design work is more thoughtful than 2014 and on par, IMO, with other monster books.

My concern here is with WotC IP, which I feel is handled adequately with what I already have. For everything else, there's Level Up.

 

[Divine2021]

I had been considering buying it (preordered it too), but I realized recently I just don’t enjoy playing 5e—the game moves far too slowly for my tastes. The additional character options at 1st level in the new book will slow down the game even further. I’ll pass and spend my money elsewhere.

 

[Seramus]

The reveals have not changed my decision to purchase it. I want to give them money so they are encouraged to keep making content for this fun game. That doesn't always mean the content they make is perfect for me, but I get more of what I like in the long run by investing.

I also feel like purchasing it removes any guilt from acquiring a PDF or using wikidot, but that's a personal thing.

 

[tetrasodium]

True. I doubt it would matter much, though. The PHB reveals do not appear to be having much impact other than getting people to,yet again, argue incessantly about Stealth.

Not here on page thirteen, but "I was on the fence and what I saw changed that like so" is a more significant metric than "I made my choice and it is the same"

 

[DEFCON 1]

I'm surprised by your selections.

• The Horizon Walker Ranger is the non-PHB ranger I think I have seen discussed the most online.
• The Oath of the Crown is the "warlock paladin"; a paladin whose oath was to a shady employer. In terms of inherent plot and roleplaying I think its the best of the lot. Unlike the implied idealist it has a probable arc ahead of it.
• The PDK needs fixing - but is the "warlord subclass". No one likes it not because the concept isn't there but because it's badly done.

OK, I'll grant the other two. That said you missed Undying and Battlerager from SCAG. Undying's already been updated into Undead and Battlerager is just bad. (Not sure how Horizon Walker got into a what is otherwise a list of SCAG subclasses).

I just chose a random selection of ones that I personally don't recall seeing people really talking about. I probably could have gone with other options sure... but the point was what was important, not all the examples. Let's not miss the forest for the trees.

 

[TerraDave]

As of this post, 50% of the responses were going to buy this and still will, but the comments are majority negative/no. I'm sure that's called a reverse ratio and explains the current state of conversation in D&D circles.

Is that a particularly positive response? Very few are voting for switching to buying, even with a pretty massive push by the WotCs.

Reactions are not 4e negative, but they do not seem 5.0/next or even 3.5 positive either.

 

[Reynard]

Is that a particularly positive response? Very few are voting for switching to buying, even with a pretty massive push by the WotCs.

Reactions are not 4e negative, but they do not seem 5.0/next or even 3.5 positive either.

Obviously totally non scientific pol, but more people have said they have been turned off by seeing it than turned on.