D&D (2024) OneD&D Playtest 6: What's Your Top Ten?

[CleverNickName]

So by now, you've seen the news: Wizards of the Coast has released their sixth playtest packet for OneD&D. And it's a big one! 77 pages, full of feats and classes and weapons and combat rules and all sorts of goodies! If you haven't had a chance to read it, you should grab your free copy right here.

My question for the forum: what are your Top Ten elements of the new playtest? (Vote for up to ten favorites.)

NOTE: This playtest packet is immense, and contains a ton of stuff. I've tried my best to break it down into categories that made sense, without making the poll too large to be useable. (That's why each Subclass has its own line in the poll, but all of the individual spells and rules clarifications were lumped together.) If you need to explain how or why you voted a certain way, please do so in the comments below. For example, if you really like the "Heroic Advantage" rule on pg. 72, but you utterly despise the "Magic [Action]", you can +Vote for "specific rules clarification" and then explain in a comment below. I apologize if this lacks nuance in the poll, but it was really the only way to keep this poll a reasonable size.

Unless someone wants to make individual polls for spells, feats, weapons, rules...

 

[mellored]

Bard picking any spell list. Personally i would take it a step further, and just start with magical secrets.

Dance bard. It's about time, and very well done.

Druids bonus action wild shape for all makes it much more useful.

Moon druid being moon themed. And wild shape being balanced.
-Still need a way to stay in wolf / spider / favorite form at higher levels, and no be forced into a mammoth (possibly by adding CR 3-6 wolves and other beasts).
-also, you should be immune to your own moonbeam. A simple push can really hurt you otherwise.

Sea druid is also about time, and pretty well done. The sea spray stuff is a little odd, but ok.

Way of the shadows moving darkness is a great upgrade for the mobile class.

Way of the elements is fun now. Perfect for the kite monk.

Cunning strike is great. Really feel like fighters could do similar.

Weapon mastery. Though that was last packet.

... that's 9...

Trickery domain is more refined now.

 

[Gradine]

I couldn't vote for Dance Bard 10 times so I just voted for that.

A lot of really good stuff in there in general.

But... Dance Bard!

 

[Vael]

Dance Bard, Bard in General. Rogue in general. Reworked Druid subclasses.

 

[Marandahir]

Bard spell list choices. And Dance Bard. and Circle of the Sea Druid. And Warden Druids! There's so many goodies here, I'm like a kid in a candy store

Anyone remember when they weren't going to allow Bards to have the incredibly-Bardy Prismari subclass because Bards only do music, not dance? Boy have the times changed!

 

[Krachek]

Power word kill, now doing damage (12d12) if target have more than the required number of hit points.
I guess that some will ask Can we do an attack roll instead, just to have a chance to crit!

 

[Charlaquin]

My favorite thing is easily Cunning Strike. Other than that, I like the updates to all the classes (still don’t really like the ranger, but I’ve accepted it’s just not for me), and like the new subclasses quite a bit, especially College of Dance Bard. Seems like they may finally be willing to let non-monk characters be good at punching, which is long overdue. I also really like the Paladin being refocused around enhancing the aura, and Divine Smite becoming a spell just makes sense with how the other smites worked. Overall really pleased with this UA, it has restored my excitement for the new rules after the warlock blunder. And, seeing the route they went with wild shape makes me more confident that they’ll be able to find a solution to give warlocks more spells that won’t be so disruptive to their progression structure.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

It's definitely Dance Bard. It does its own thing. Bards freely picking their spell lists is an improvement how their old spell list was mostly just a copy of Wizard's... but it now heavily steps on Ranger toes (both can get Expertise + Primal spells + extra attack, only one of them is also a full caster).

Rogue gets mostly salvaged with just ONE added feature. I say mostly, because their second subclass feature should not be randomly thrown to lv9 just to punish them when no other class gets that, but at least it saves you time when you only ever need to read what they get at lv3.

Turning Paladin smites into bonus action spells is a clean way to unify the smite spells and deal with Paladins being nothing but alpha strike bots. It is admittedly weird how they are now even more the pet class (and don't need to spend their own actions on having their pet take combat actions, and, thanks to 1 mile telepathy, can just use it to scout without having to have sneaky skills themselves), but at least the new Find Steed clarifies controlled-vs-uncontrolled mount and it's no longer a warhorse with trample.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

It's definitely Dance Bard. It does its own thing. Bards freely picking their spell lists is an improvement how their old spell list was mostly just a copy of Wizard's... but it now heavily steps on Ranger toes (both can get Expertise + Primal spells + extra attack, only one of them is also a full caster).

Rogue gets mostly salvaged with just ONE added feature. I say mostly, because their second subclass feature should not be randomly thrown to lv9 just to punish them when no other class gets that, but at least it saves you time when you only ever need to read what they get at lv3.

Turning Paladin smites into bonus action spells is a clean way to unify the smite spells and deal with Paladins being nothing but alpha strike bots. It is admittedly weird how they are now even more the pet class (and don't need to spend their own actions on having their pet take combat actions, and, thanks to 1 mile telepathy, can just use it to scout without having to have sneaky skills themselves), but at least the new Find Steed clarifies controlled-vs-uncontrolled mount and it's no longer a warhorse with trample.

Sadly, subclass restructuring was thrown out of the window to shut down the "incompatible crowd".

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Sadly, subclass restructuring was thrown out of the window to shut down the "incompatible crowd".

It's more that they made Rogue have that gap in the first place 10 years ago...

Ah well. They got a new shiny thing at the level where they needed the bump the most.