D&D (2024) Is anyone going to use the new 2024 backgrounds?

[FitzTheRuke]

I am guessing the three abilities with the Sailor background will be: Strength, Constitution, and Wisdom. It will be Wisdom because navigating, fishing, etcetera are (awkwardly) Wisdom (Survival) checks.

Yeah, all them wise, wise sailors that history shows. LOL.

(Actually, thinking about it more, it's not all that bad, depending on what you think wisdom represents - if it's a practical straightforwardness, then it's actually appropriate.)

 

[UngeheuerLich]

A feat, plus another feat that grants two skills plus a tool (slightly less valuable than Skilled (with three skills) and a language (which are essentially useless in 2024).

So 2.1?

+ 1.5 ability score increase feats

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yeah, all them wise, wise sailors that history shows. LOL.

Wisdom is awareness.

 

[Yaarel]

Yeah, all them wise, wise sailors that history shows. LOL.

Heh, those "wise" "brawling" Sailors.

(Actually, thinking about it more, it's not all that bad, depending on what you think wisdom represents - if it's a practical straightforwardness, then it's actually appropriate.)

For me:

Intelligence = knowledge

It doesnt matter where this knowledge comes from, self-taught, formal training, good memory, deductive reasoning, gut instinct, mystical intuition. Whatever. Knowledge = Intelligence.

Wisdom 1 = animal senses = see, hear, smell, taste, touch

Wisdom 2 = will power

Maybe Wisdom 2 also includes sanity.


I strongly prefer Survival skill and Sailor background rely on Intelligence for navigating according to maps and the stars, being knowledgeable about fish behavior, etcetera. So I prefer the Sailor correlate the default abilities with Strength, Constitution, and Intelligence to choose from.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Wisdom is awareness.

Yeah, see my edit. Thinking about it more, it's not actually inappropriate.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

+ 1.5 ability score increase feats

Five half-feats.

 

[Mistwell]

Heh, speak for yourself.

If there is a book that has great backgrounds and a great system for backgrounds, that is a reason for me to buy the book.

It's the new players handbook. You were going to buy it even if it just repeated the old backgrounds. Come on Yaarel, I know you enough to know you were not making a decision on the PHB over backgrounds

 

[Yaarel]

It's the new players handbook. You were going to buy it even if it just repeated the old backgrounds. Come on Yaarel, I know you enough to know you were not making a decision on the PHB over backgrounds

Yes, but a solid background system does enhance my enthusiasm for buying the book.

 

[Corinnguard]

Yes, but a solid background system does enhance my enthusiasm for buying the book.

So, are you ecstatic for the entire book then? Ecstatic is one step up from enthusiasm, you know.

 

[Yaarel]

So, are you ecstatic for the entire book then? Ecstatic is one step up from enthusiasm, you know.

I actually am getting excited about 2024.

I either like the changes or have made my peace with things that might not have changed enough. Overall it seems like a solid system that is smoother than 2014.