D&D (2024) New One D&D Playtest Document: 77 Pages, 7 Classes, & More!

There's a brand new playtest document for the new (version/edition/update) of Dungeons of Dragons available for download! This one is an enormous 77 pages and includes classes, spells, feats, and weapons.

Unearthed Arcana Playtest

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In this new Unearthed Arcana document for the 2024 Core Rulebooks, we explore material designed for the next version of the Player’s Handbook. This playtest document presents updated rules on seven classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, and Rogue. This document also presents multiple subclasses for each of those classes, new Spells, revisions to existing Spells and Spell Lists, and several revised Feats. You will also find an updated rules glossary that supercedes the glossary of any previous playtest document.

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[Micah Sweet]

Because every paladin seems to be going from getting two channel divinities at level 3, to one. So if I have to have one or the other, I'm getting the other.

Also note that Turn the Unholy has been gone from the Devotion Paladin every time it has been presented in the playtest.

The only one keeping both of their channels is technically Glory, and that is because they are spending Inspiring Smite in addition to a smite spell, so they need something else to balance it for when they aren't smiting.

I see no reason they couldn't have kept two Channel Divinities. "Because that's what they decided to do" is not an adequate reason, and is indeed circular.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I am not sure it is superior given the history... Imagine calling it '6e but compatible with 5e', that is so much worse than simply '5e'

Not to me it isn't. To each their own.

 

[Stalker0]

Obviously 1D&D's changes are hugely larger than those 3.5E made. It's not possible to argue otherwise. There are more changes to classes, more changes to races, more changes to spells, more changes to basic rules, more changes to Feats, everything.

With respect, this statement doesn't hold water.

3.5 changed almost every aspect of 3rd edition. Weapons, DR systems, all classes were significant altered, almost all spells were changed, feats were overhauled, skills changed, monsters completely redesigned. All of the combat subsystems (grapple, push, trip, overrun) were changed.

From what we have seen from One dnd so far....3.5 was a far bigger change.

 

[Remathilis]

I mean, okay, if you're going to say things which are obviously false on a very basic level, then I think we can dismiss your claims entirely.

I think with a combative posting style like this, we can dismiss your claims entirely.

 

[Parmandur]

For the Purpose of Playtesting, yes.

But that doesn't tell us anything about what the 2024 books will settle on, in the end.

Crawford was pretty clear that anything dropped from the Glossary is gone-goje at this point.

 

[Remathilis]

Crawford was pretty clear that anything dropped from the Glossary is gone-goje at this point.

I still question a few parts of this. For example: does this mean guidance and Barkskin are going to revert to their 2014 versions? They're not in the glossary anymore...

 

[tetrasodium]

I mean, okay, if you're going to say things which are obviously false on a very basic level, then I think we can dismiss your claims entirely.

Obviously 1D&D's changes are hugely larger than those 3.5E made. It's not possible to argue otherwise. There are more changes to classes, more changes to races, more changes to spells, more changes to basic rules, more changes to Feats, everything.

So when you claim "It doesn't rise to 3.5E", you're just saying something isn't true, isn't credible, isn't worthy of any respect as an opinion, and is obviously early-stage edition-warring.

No. Prior to packet 6 that might have been close enough to being true for there to be debate. Packet6 rolled back too much though & it's barely an errata. For comparison... 3.5 had splatbooks that almost certainly provided more significant change to gameplay than packet6.

 

[Azzy]

Mate mate mate mate mate, mate mate mateyson. Maaaaate.

It's not going to happen.

This is as much a new edition as 2E was. No amount of DARVO is going to fix that. You predicted wrong. Your buddy Treatmonk who said "the big changes are over" before this came out - he was wrong. But what you're doing, ironically, is edition-warring. It's first stages, but we can presumably expect you to be yelling at people referring to the new edition as an edition for the entire next decade lol.

Oh, god. Are we really going to relitigate this?

 

[Zaukrie]

Oh, god. Are we really going to relitigate this?

Every thread

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I still question a few parts of this. For example: does this mean guidance and Barkskin are going to revert to their 2014 versions? They're not in the glossary anymore...

Right. I don't think that we should assume that everything missing is going back to 2014. Some of it is just not important to playtest at the moment. Sure, the obvious stuff is probably reverting (like the Jump rules, for example), but it's not a foregone conclusion that absolutely everything that is not there will look exactly like 2014. I think everyone's being a little too literal about all of this.