D&D 5E Pages from the PHB

[Dausuul]

I only went on about anything, in response to ALL the negative posts against what I had to say, when I express my personal opinion and people dog pile on it is natural to defend myself. If you notice almost every one of my posts after the first was in response to someone, just like this one. So why is it on me to let it go, when there is a group of people you among them that don't seem to want to let me.

You are perfectly free to keep arguing as long as you like. Agamon never said it was "on you" to let it go. He just suggested letting it go was a more sensible approach than continuing to argue the same thing round and round. If you disagree, keep arguing, and eventually everyone else will let it go because otherwise the argument will go on forever and what's the point? (But you may end up on a lot of Ignore lists as a result.)

Generally speaking, if you go on a forum and say something, and a lot of people think you're wrong, you'll get a lot of responses telling you you're wrong. Whether you then dig in and defend your position, or stop to reconsider what you originally said, is up to you.

 

[Remathilis]

I'm hearing you say that the grognards who want the Basic rules and nothing else don't exist, or will "upgrade" to the PHB once it comes out. Is this correct?

I suspect they will pick and choose, but a lot will start with "Basic is core, ask me about anything else."

 

[Gundark]

Yes, I'm taking that straight out of the 3e and I'm guessing there is an 84% chance they are also.

I am 63% sure that you are right

 

[WizarDru]

I think everyone is missing the important thing, here, in that there is a table that requires you to roll percentile dice to get a result in a D&D book once again. This makes 12 year-old me (reading the magic item entries in the AD&D DMG) SO. HAPPY.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

I think everyone is missing the important thing, here, in that there is a table that requires you to roll percentile dice to get a result in a D&D book once again. This makes 12 year-old me (reading the magic item entries in the AD&D DMG) SO. HAPPY.

I like the random wild surges myself. It's not for everyone thematically, but it's not as big of a deal mechanically as people are making it. I'm assuming you don't roll on that table every time you cast a spell, but only in certain situations. The results that risk harming your allies are pretty rare. And the biggest thing is that your allies can simply not stand close to you, and stay safe.

Players in the group who object to wild mages with wild surges are quite likely to solve the problem by having their character stay their distance. If those characters happen to be your tank and your healer, sucks to be you. A perfect in-game resolution for the issue of playing a disruptive character who might damage your allies.

As I said, there are valid thematic reasons for choosing not to use wild surges as listed. I just think the concerns over party safety are a little over-stated.

 

[Paraxis]

I'm hearing you say that the grognards who want the Basic rules and nothing else don't exist, or will "upgrade" to the PHB once it comes out. Is this correct?

Pretty sure most of the grognards have their favorite system or they wouldn't be grognards, they have plenty of options that will give them a more grognard like experience than D&D Basic, they have the rule books on their shelves and plenty of OSR clones available.

But sure some will they exist, but I would bet they are a very minor minority of people playing D&D 5e in 2015.

 

[Agamon]

But sure some will they exist, but I would bet they are a very minor minority of people playing D&D 5e in 2015.

You might be surprised. Sure, some of the grouches over at a certain other forum that think anything made past 19(insert number here) is blaspheme to the name D&D won't give it one let alone two looks. But a lot of my old school circles on G+ are posting a lot about it. And one of the bigger endorsers of 5e over at RPGnet is Blacky the Blackball, creator of Dark Dungeons.

The OSR crowd has always been a niche of a niche, but it's nice that here's an option for them.

 

[Agamon]

I think everyone is missing the important thing, here, in that there is a table that requires you to roll percentile dice to get a result in a D&D book once again. This makes 12 year-old me (reading the magic item entries in the AD&D DMG) SO. HAPPY.

I'm thinking it's not a stretch to guess that there will be a Wand of Wonder. And random artifact ability tables would be the coolest...

 

[doctorhook]

In a way, it's heartening to know that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Who else remembers this? Killjoy Cooking with the Dungeons & Dragons Crowd (Swear to god, the other day on another forum I saw a post to the effect of, "D&D Next is going to be just like an MMO." I don't recall the BS justification the poster used, but they seemed serious.)

PS: I super-dig this preview, especially the warlock. Damn, warlocks are cool.

 

[mechascorpio]

But sure some will they exist, but I would bet they are a very minor minority of people playing D&D 5e in 2015.

I'm 48, love my OSR games, but can't wait for 5E. I hope it's a great game because if it is, and I enjoy it, I will be doing something I've never done before: joining up at my FLGS weekly to play. That's a big thing for me, because since I moved cross-country a few years ago, I've had a difficult time finding a game and players to jump into. For me, part of 5E is this new Adventurers League and I'm looking forward to getting into it from the ground up.