D&D (2024) I just got a 2024 PHB From Gen Con. AMA!

[Crimson Longinus]

It’s more like they are trained. A well trained dog doesn’t act until commanded. The same is true here.

Have you ever had a pet? My dogs constantly take actions even though I have not instructed them to!

 

[GarrettKP]

Have you ever had a pet? My dogs constantly take actions even though I have not instructed them to!

Which is why I said well trained

 

[Oofta]

It’s more like they are trained. A well trained dog doesn’t act until commanded. The same is true here.

If you have an attack dog, you tell it to attack once, you don't have to continue to tell it to attack

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Have you ever had a pet? My dogs constantly take actions even though I have not instructed them to!

Left unattended my dogs crap in the kitchen

 

[GarrettKP]

If you have an attack dog, you tell it to attack once, you don't have to continue to tell it to attack

Ok but this is also a game and you have to consider game balance when designing these things. It’s not a hard concept to understand. Giving one player two characters becomes a problem at a lot of tables.

 

[Oofta]

Ok but this is also a game and you have to consider game balance when designing these things. It’s not a hard concept to understand. Giving one player two characters becomes a problem at a lot of tables.

Either make it a reasonable option or come up with something else. But this is off topic, I just think it's a poorly implemented option. At least in the 2014 version.

 

[GarrettKP]

Either make it a reasonable option or come up with something else. But this is off topic, I just think it's a poorly implemented option. At least in the 2014 version.

I’m not talking 2014. I’m talking 2024. Where it still requires you to make a command but the command takes a BA, not an Action.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

How does Animate Dead work now?

Is it still the same where you can create 13 Skeletons or Zombies with a 9th level slot? Or is it a spell with a single statblock creature like a bunch of the Summon spells? Has it being replaced by Summon Undead? Or has it become more like the Conjure spells that changed to movable effects?

 

[mellored]

If i am a Eldritch Knight/ Valor Bard / sorcerer (/ warlock)

Can I replace my first attack with a cantrip
Then replace my second attack with a cantrip.

Action Surge and replace 2 more attacks with 2 cantrips.

And have Haste to use another attack to cast a cantrip.

And finally quicken cast a cantrip?

For a total of 24 Eldritch Blasts?

 

[GarrettKP]

How does Animate Dead work now?

Is it still the same where you can create 13 Skeletons or Zombies with a 9th level slot? Or is it a spell with a single statblock creature like a bunch of the Summon spells? Has it being replaced by Summon Undead? Or has it become more like the Conjure spells that changed to movable effects?

It works like it did in the 2014 book as far as I can tell. You create a Skeleton or Zombie with it, can have up to 4 with the base spell, and get up to 2 more each upcast.