D&D 5E Livestream: Scourge of the Sword Coast Session 4

[Plaguescarred]

Livestream: Scourge of the Sword Coast
Session 4
By D&D Team

Join members of the D&D team as they play through the latest season of D&D Encounters, featuring the Scourge of the Sword Coast adventure, which follows up on the events of the 25-hour Extra Life marathon game.

Session is this coming friday. Looking forward to it, last session was fun!

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[the Jester]

Reminder bump.

I'm eagerly waiting for them to start.

 

[the Jester]

Looks like Matt Sernett is out with sick family, so they're going to have a Q&A session instead. Hurray! And boo. But I'll stick with hurray!

 

[TarionzCousin]

Looks like Matt Sernett is out with sick family, so they're going to have a Q&A session instead. Hurray! And boo. But I'll stick with hurray!

This could be nice... if they answer previously unanswered questions for two hours.

 

[the Jester]

They mentioned the "eldritch knight" as the out-of-the-box spellcasting warrior option.

 

[the Jester]

Prestige classes will not be in the game upon release; they're taking a wait-and-see attitude toward them. Assuming that they do make it in eventually, they'll probably be more explicitly tied to in-game organizations and low on requirements (Mearls used the example of proficiency with a bow for an archer focused prestige class).

 

[the Jester]

...so yeah, they're done. Not too much there; not a very long Q&A and not very meaty questions. (They also went into their reasoning re: saves being distinct from checks and talked a bit about backgrounds and monster customization and stat blocks.)

One thing I find very interesting, given their release schedule, is that they seem to still be finalizing the game. It sounds like they aren't quite done.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

Is this over already? I get a message that it's offline.

 

[tuxgeo]

It's over already. They only went to about 11:35 - 11:40 AM PDT.

There will be another try at a gaming session next Friday; but the Friday after that will be PAX East, where the livestream game won't include the participants of these sessions.

Edit: Other thoughts:
(1) Prestige Classes won't be in the game on release; instead, they'll wait to see how people play the game before putting them in.
(2) Subclasses will be carefully selected: they want enough subclasses so people can build the characters they want to play, but they want to eliminate redundancy of concepts.

 

[Plaguescarred]

Here's the replay link of the Q&A session http://www.twitch.tv/wotc_dnd/b/515041324