D&D (2024) Just drop the backgrounds.

[Parmandur]

Fine. I'm glad they're designing the new version of D&D to what are apparently your exact specifications.

I wouldn't have thought of it, myself, even though it's how I see it done. It's just clever design, focused on improving the user experience.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I wouldn't have thought of it, myself, even though it's how I see it done. It's just clever design, focused on improving the user experience.

Just remember that a design you think is clever is just subjectively so. Same as me.

 

[Parmandur]

Just remember that a design you think is clever is just subjectively so. Same as me.

No, whether you enjoy it or not is subjective. Whether it works better for most players is something that WotC can test and measure.

 

[Micah Sweet]

No, whether you enjoy it or not is subjective. Whether it works better for most players is something that WotC can test and measure.

Yes, but whether or not something is "clever" is subjective. That's what I'm saying. I was calling out your claim that the design was clever being objectively true.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes, but whether or not something is "clever" is subjective. That's what I'm saying. I was calling out your claim that the design was clever being objectively true.

Making a decision that does an end run on what is obvious to meet customer needs better is clever.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Where are you putting ASI? Back into race?

I'd put them in the stat generation section.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Making the structure mirror actual play is a good thing: and putting Class first is how I see people conceive characters. That's the point of a Class system.

When a character dies in a session at our table 9 times out of 10 when we ask the player "What's your next character?" the answer is what class they are going to play. 1 times out of 10 it's a race. Never once has "Folk Hero" or "Sailor" been an answer.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

It doesn't really matter to me what order the chargen elements are in. My first step is to visualize the character I want to play, then I decide which mechanical bits would best actualize it.

 

[FrogReaver]

While not perfectly on topic. IMO, there's no real reason for classes to have a restricted skills list anymore. I can imagine a deceptive and insightful fighter just as easily as an athletic historian.

 

[jasper]

They mad because people did not use backgrounds except for the skills. But I don't recall any adventure in which backgrounds were important. and only about 3 or 4 of the season modules which your back ground was of use.