New D&D Survey: What Do you Want From Older Editions?

WotC has just posted this month's D&D feedback survey. This survey asks about content from older editions of D&D, including settings, classes and races. The results will help determine what appears in future Unearthed Arcana columns.

The new survey is here. The results for the last survey have not yet been compiled. However, WotC is reporting that the Waterborne Adventures article scored well, and that feedback on Dragon+ has been "quite positive".

"We also asked about the new options presented in the Waterborne Adventures installment of Unearthed Arcana. Overall, that material scored very well—on a par with material from the Player’s Handbook. Areas where players experienced trouble were confined to specific mechanics. The minotaur race’s horns created a bit of confusion, for example, and its ability score bonuses caused some unhappiness. On a positive note, people really liked the sample bonds and how they helped bring out the minotaur’s unique culture.

The mariner, the swashbuckler, and the storm sorcerer also scored very well. A few of the specific mechanics for those options needed some attention, but overall, players and DMs liked using them.

Finally, we asked a few questions about the Dragon+ app. We really appreciate the feedback as we tailor the app’s content and chart the course for future issues. The overall feedback has been quite positive, and we’re looking at making sure we continue to build on our initial success."

 

[Tony Vargas]

One can heal their ally from a grievous injury due to falling into a trap or getting a critical from an ogre's club, or you can play a strictly non-magic using class. Not both. You have to pick one.

You are powerless to enforce that little dictum.

 

[Ricochet]

I wrote in a vote for Al-Qadim.

 

[delericho]

Finally, we asked a few questions about the Dragon+ app. We really appreciate the feedback as we tailor the app’s content and chart the course for future issues. The overall feedback has been quite positive, and we’re looking at making sure we continue to build on our initial success.

I don't believe this for one second.

If "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" can be nominated for the ENnie for best adventure (and especially when "Lost Mine of Phandelver" is not) then Doppelganger+ can receive positive feedback.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

Added warlord and a proper bladesinger (no I don't like eldritch knight, bladelocks, and valor bards)...

Out of curiosity, what would you want to see in a bladesinger that's missing in those other classes?

I expect the binder to show up as a "vestige pact" option for the warlock...that is how they handled it in 4e and I believe Mearls mentioned that this is likely what they would do in 5e if they brought it over.

That's a bit of a shame. The cool stuff about the Binder was that they got to connect with these weird entities and gained strange powers from doing so, and each day they got to connect with different entities. It made them very flexible, in a way usually only highly diversified wizards are - but with a slightly more martial/skill-based bent. It was also nice that many of the vestiges granted what was effectively 1/encounter abilities (once per 5 rounds), which was a pretty new thing in D&D at the time.

The warlock, on the other hand, is a very un-flexible class - there are plenty of ways to make a warlock, but once any power is chosen it is pretty much locked in. That's the very antithesis of the binder.

Maybe a vestige pact could work--WotC has clever designers. I would be disappointed if a 5th Edition version followed the 4E version and sacrificed the bargaining aspect that the 3.5 Binder had. My favorite part about the 3.5 Binder was how the various vestiges influenced the character's personality and physical appearance.

 

[Minigiant]

My comments just mention 3 classes and 1 race.

Truenamers (an at will magic class who can get inverted effects by reserving spells and targets a creature's, place's, or object's existence rather than the target itself)

Dragonfire Adepts (a magical warrior who utilizes various breath weapons and invocations to reach victory)

Totemist (a magical warrior who binds magic in the spirits of magical beasts to their bodies for power and utility)

Hamadryad (a race that is both fey and plant who has an array of plant magic and tough skin)

 

[Klaus]

I'm just happy the Vryloka (a race I designed entirely for Heroes of Shadow) made it to the list!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I'm just happy the Vryloka (a race I designed entirely for Heroes of Shadow) made it to the list!

I voted for it along with my class write in for warlord...

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Warlord and Nentir Vale.

That is all.

 

[Umbran]

Or you could not be willfully inflexible when it comes to imagination. "Herp a derp, HP is meat!" "I cant conceive of narrative rules. Lets consult 50 ing charts and a spreadsheet like in Pathfinder to achieve the same battlefield repositioning effect!"

Strike two!

Ladies and Gents, upthread I already warned someone to keep discussion respectful. Here's a second case of someone who cannot seem to mind their manners.

The third and following issues will likely be given a vacation from the boards, probably without warning. I strongly suggest you treat each other with the utmost respect from this point on.

 

[TwoSix]

If they start turning 5e back into 4e to lure a handful of customers back, not only will they not get my money, I'm probably done with table top. I cannot, will not, abide through going these types of debates about whether a non-magic using class should have access to instantaneous healing from across the room. I would rather literally burn my money than give it to a company that thinks it's okay to release a warlord after feedback roundly told them not to include it.

If a warlord class is released, please attach a Vine of the money being burned, please. Thanks in advance.