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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[R_Chance]

For games that necessarily care about that. Not all games.

Roleplaying games in general, for example.

Also, 'always win design' haha. I do love the classic untrue statements.

Name an RPG that doesn't have resource limitations / attrition / recharging? Just curious as to what you mean by that.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Huh, funny. Could have sworn that D&D has cared about it for pretty much its entire existence.

My argument is that it should step boldly into the mid 00's and stop that noise.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Man what?

What on earth are you trying to say here? The second sentence does an amazing job of actually making your point way more confusing. I can't even respond to this bizarre pair of sentences.

I think they're saying that everything uses metagame thinking now anyway, so it doesn't matter.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Name an RPG that doesn't have resource limitations / attrition / recharging? Just curious as to what you mean by that.

To clarify, I mean daily attrition disconnected from encounter design.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I think they're saying that everything uses metagame thinking now anyway, so it doesn't matter.

I mean, I'd say that's obviously untrue, because the main issue with Short Rests is actually that people don't metagame with them lol. It's not even debatable, you can see it in Let's Plays/Actual Plays as well as your actual campaigns.

 

[mamba]

To clarify, I mean daily attrition disconnected from encounter design.

No thanks, per encounter recharge is the worst possible solution. If they do that I switch to something else.

 

[Incenjucar]

Dailies are so incredibly counter to any fiction I'd ever come up with unless using, like, the magic of the rising sun.

 

[Incenjucar]

Even with the original Vancian magic, the original concept was that you were pre-casting the spells, which were more like rituals with a trigger to set them off. I could also see being unable to do more difficult things after straining yourself, or having a limit in your contract with a fiendish patron. But straight up dailies as the default falls pretty far from most narratives.

 

[mamba]

Dailies are so incredibly counter to any fiction I'd ever come up with unless using, like, the magic of the rising sun.

maybe, but I don't see how something refreshing after an encounter can be any less counter to it

Resting and refreshing for a night at least is something that happens in real life. Being refreshed after a boxing fight simply because it is over does not.

If in your logic a 1h rest makes sense, I don't see how a 8h rest makes less sense either.

 

[Hussar]

Dailies are so incredibly counter to any fiction I'd ever come up with unless using, like, the magic of the rising sun.

So, not a fan of Vancian casting huh?