D&D 5E Legends & Lore 8/4/14: Here Comes the Player's Handbook

[sidonunspa]

So,

what do you think will be added to Basic this Friday? I know some people have been saying we might see monsters added...

 

[mips42]

I am sincerely hoping that Monsters is what will be added. Having more beasties that I don't have to convert from other editions would be great.
So far, backgrounds are what I am most looking forward to from the PHB. As for not being enough, they're a starting point and you can still design your own.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Interesting info. I took off on a background-a-palooza for Planescape, and I think I nailed the features pretty well, and I grokked that you can switch skills or tools (but not skills for tools!) pretty well. Specifically, the PS faction backgrounds give you affiliation with your faction and all the rights and responsibilities that might suggest.

All of which points to backgrounds being easy to customize to a particular DM's setting. Assuming I'm not a rocket surgeon, it shouldn't be a big deal for most folks to do it!

 

[pkt77242]

So,

what do you think will be added to Basic this Friday? I know some people have been saying we might see monsters added...

Here is a quote from this website "In August, with the release of the Player’s Handbook, Basic D&D will expand to include the essential monsters, magic items, and DM rules needed to run the game, along with the rules for wilderness, dungeon, and urban adventuring."

Read more: http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?1631-Dungeons-Dragons-Starter-Set-Fantasy-Roleplaying-Fundamentals-%28D-D-Boxed-Game%29-Hits-Amazon!#.U9-t9LEnKdU#ixzz39RK2Ex5y
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[Tormyr]

Interesting info. I took off on a background-a-palooza for Planescape, and I think I nailed the features pretty well, and I grokked that you can switch skills or tools (but not skills for tools!) pretty well. Specifically, the PS faction backgrounds give you affiliation with your faction and all the rights and responsibilities that might suggest.

Those look pretty good. They are in line with the backgrounds we have already seen, and they tie in well with the setting.

 

[evilbob]

Thanks for the link. It's interesting that their website has changed so much, and the old links aren't working anymore. Not really a good way to access the archives that I've noticed yet. Also I noticed you can't use comments anymore, at least not on the article itself (not complaining, just noticing).

As for the content: yay backgrounds! Nothing on the list hasn't been guessed before, although "outlander" vs. "hermit" seems odd - I guess they mean "outlander" like "planar"? Hard to say. LOVE the gold dragon write-up - nicely done! Like others I can't wait for more.

As for the worries about switching up all the skills and whatever: I really think this isn't as big of a deal. Yeah, that means everyone in your party will have Perception as a skill. If it really bothers you that much, give them a lot of skill checks that don't involve Perception. Or don't use backgrounds. Or don't use skills! Honestly in the end it just means people will be slightly less individualistic, but if that's how they want to play, who cares?

 

[I'm A Banana]

As for the content: yay backgrounds! Nothing on the list hasn't been guessed before, although "outlander" vs. "hermit" seems odd - I guess they mean "outlander" like "planar"? Hard to say. LOVE the gold dragon write-up - nicely done! Like others I can't wait for more.

I think the "outlander" is like the "person from a foreign culture in the pseudo-medieval melieu." So it might cover folks like stereotypical nordic-barbarian-culture folks, people like pseudo-Arabic nomads from the desert, or even possibly "Merchant from Kara-Tur."

"Hermit" is more specifically "person living alone in the empty wilderness," so you've got like ascetic monks on mountaintops and wu jen living in caves and mountain men who live with bears and suchlike.

 

[Remathilis]

I think the "outlander" is like the "person from a foreign culture in the pseudo-medieval melieu." So it might cover folks like stereotypical nordic-barbarian-culture folks, people like pseudo-Arabic nomads from the desert, or even possibly "Merchant from Kara-Tur."

"Hermit" is more specifically "person living alone in the empty wilderness," so you've got like ascetic monks on mountaintops and wu jen living in caves and mountain men who live with bears and suchlike.

I think outlander means "doesn't live in civilization, but not necessarily shuns people.” Tribal, nomadic, bandits, wardens, or people living on the edges of civilization (but still in contact with it) would be outlanders.

 

[MarkB]

5E, the sea creature edition of D&D

I got my shell, I used to be a Hermit, but now I have learned arcane spells and I'm Wizard and I've never looked back

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Not so much Wizards of the Coast as Wizards Off the Coast.

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

Thanks for the link. It's interesting that their website has changed so much, and the old links aren't working anymore. Not really a good way to access the archives that I've noticed yet.

I am pretty sure that as far as WOTC is concerned that this is a feature not a bug especially in regards to new players who might get lost on their site and be confused by material for previous editions.

Also I noticed you can't use comments anymore, at least not on the article itself (not complaining, just noticing).

And this too.