D&D 5E Next UA on February 6

[Al2O3]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Mearls is in Korea? For fun? Work trip?

AD

Enough work to tweet about getting pages written on the flight there and about discovering some food, but beyond that I'm also curious.

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[Sacrosanct]

Enough work to tweet about getting pages written on the flight there and about discovering some food, but beyond that I'm also curious.

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Well, it is about a 14 hour flight there, and 11 back, so plenty of time to get work done

 

[Sword of Spirit]

My point is that the PHB design appears daring and innovative compared to later efforts. For a series of low-stakes *free playtest* that's a low grade.

Whatever reason WotC has for either holding back the UA designers, or not putting the right designers on the job, it's high time for that to change.

(Yes, I'm aware the UA team is the same team that made the PHB. So perhaps that's the reason: they've already burnt all their dry powder...?

Perhaps it's time to put a fresh hungry talent on UA duty instead...)

I think the reason for that is that surveys have likely indicated that people preferred material that stuck closer to established 5e patterns than more innovative things. I know that is true for me.

Now, I'll add a caveat to that. I totally approve of using new 5e mechanics to represent older concepts than aren't well representable by pre-existing 5e patterns. For instance, I like what they've been doing with the mystic, and the artificer looks mostly fine to me (though it would rarely make an appearance in my games).

On the other hand, what I'm not interested in seeing is a bunch of experimentation like what tends to come out late edition. In order for that to be okay to me, we first need to get updated the previous edition stuff. Before we get Octopusfolk and Mammoth Men we need Mul and Kender. Before we get Ring Weavers and Rock Eaters we need Wizards of High Sorcery and Defilers. Before we get Star Summoning and Book Magic we need AD&D or Hybrid Multiclassing and Mass Combat.

 

[Azzy]

They declared this once a week schedule.

If its late and lame of course people will complain more. And they should.

Only if they're really spoiled and petulant.

 

[TerraDave]

I have six posters complaining about my complaining!

Keep complaining, I guess.

 

[lkj]

Enough work to tweet about getting pages written on the flight there and about discovering some food, but beyond that I'm also curious.

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And as of yesterday apparently sampling fine western cuisine (Dunkin Donuts).

In other news, the fact that I know that some game designer went to a Dunkin Donuts in South Korea is making me re-examine my life and my priorities.

AD

 

[Xeviat]

It's the 6th!!!!


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[Raunalyn]

It's up...

http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/26_UASorcererUA020617s.pdf