D&D 5E (2024) One D&D origins playtest survey is live

[MNblockhead]

It is clear in the playtest document. But, some people just refuse to accept it anyway. I don’t think there’s a way to word it that will make those people believe them.

I think it will get more normalized through DnD Beyond. The character generator should step you through building your custom background. The selection of an example should be an option not the default.

For those creating characters with pen and paper from the print book, I agree, I don't think any amount of wording will change much.

 

[MNblockhead]

Put the rules for building your own background in the PHB with like 3 examples. Put the rest in the DMG.

Nah. This is content for players. To help players. I wouldn't want players to have to get the DMG or the DM to have to hand over the DMG to the players.

I could see it being an appendix of the PHB. But that's kinda bad design in it will just exacerbate the back-and-forth page flipping you already have to do when building characters.

 

[Horwath]

And preferably dragonborn to not come out of the egg speaking Draconic.

maybe it's genetic memory?

 

[Charlaquin]

maybe it's genetic memory?

That’s not really a thing though… like, there’s some evidence that might suggest certain trauma responses can be passed on hereditarily, but it’s shaky and poorly understood.

 

[Horwath]

That’s not really a thing though… like, there’s some evidence that might suggest certain trauma responses can be passed on hereditarily, but it’s shaky and poorly understood.

dragons and magic, what can I say. Maybe throughout the ages they figured it out.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

maybe it's genetic memory?

That’s not really a thing though… like, there’s some evidence that might suggest certain trauma responses can be passed on hereditarily, but it’s shaky and poorly understood.

Maybe they're playing off of the idea that all Dragon Wyrmlings are born knowing how to speak Draconic (but not Common or any other language) somehow? Not that this is any better, but that's what I thought it was alluding to when I first read it.

 

[Marc Radle]

Nope, they specifically want you to tie in an existing account. You can also use a Twitch account, which is what I did (not really anything useful to marketers on it).

Wow, that … really stinks.
So if you don’t have any of those accounts you can’t sign up? Looks like I’m not taking the survey I guess.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

And it seems silly to do this, seems like doubting for the sake of doubting.

Its not doubting for doubtings sake, it's worry especially with new information.

You have already been wrong about One D&D stuff.

yes everyone gets things wrong all the time...

 

[Retreater]

The current wording could be interpreted as listing combat as one of the types of strenuous activity, of which it takes a total of one hour to interrupt a long rest.

So - just double check my math - that's a 600 round combat to last an hour?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I was talking about that in the post you first responded to. But for some reason you appeared to be instructing me to do it the opposite of what I suggested. (Which is, if you roll your attack and damage together, and you get a crit, you just add max weapon damage to the roll.)

For some reason it sounded like you were disagreeing with that, and telling me that I should instead max that roll, reroll, and add that result.

At ant rate, I assume we get to the same thing, even if for some strange effect of the limitations of conversing by post we appear to be disagreeing somehow.

Ah okay, yeah I think we do the same thing. I don’t roll attack and damage together, but otherwise it’s the same thing.