D&D (2024) When are we getting the second playtest document?

[doctorbadwolf]

I mean, that might be a good idea, frankly. Just expand Background more and drip "Race."

I’m not a fan of the “this is thorny so we should just ditch it altogether” option, especially when there are so many ways to go that don’t lean into that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I’m not a fan of the “this is thorny so we should just ditch it altogether” option, especially when there are so many ways to go that don’t lean into that.

That does seem to be WotC's go-to though.

 

[JEB]

That does seem to be WotC's go-to though.

But they have been known to reverse course as well - remember when we lost alignment in official products and it came back within products in the same year?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, that might be a good idea, frankly. Just expand Background more and drip "Race."

That's too big of a change for 2024, though.

 

[Micah Sweet]

But they have been known to reverse course as well - remember when we lost alignment in official products and it came back within products in the same year?

True, but they didn't ask people if they liked removing alignment in the first place. They just did it.

 

[Haplo781]

True, but they didn't ask people if they liked removing alignment in the first place. They just did it.

And they should have stuck with it.

 

[Parmandur]

That's too big of a change for 2024, though.

Probably. Pity.

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

I do think this is WotC is heading off anticipated trouble, rather than trouble that's already here. But I think the blow-ups over the drow and orcs are just the beginning and I have a hard time seeing the change to half-races as anything other than them trying to prevent a blow-up over those rules.

Honestly, I am surprised they even kept the term "race" in the game. That has been a major request of a lot of gamers interested in social justice issues on Twitter and WOTC seemed to be headed that way as recently as a year ago.

 

[Parmandur]

Honestly, I am surprised they even kept the term "race" in the game. That has been a major request of a lot of gamers interested in social justice issues on Twitter and WOTC seemed to be headed that way as recently as a year ago.

My feedback was that they should drop the word.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Honestly, I am surprised they even kept the term "race" in the game. That has been a major request of a lot of gamers interested in social justice issues on Twitter and WOTC seemed to be headed that way as recently as a year ago.

That's still doable -- they don't have anything like a final draft for the 2024 PHB yet. It's a little more work than just doing a copy and replace on the document (you have to make sure you don't have any unintended typos, with "brace" being turned into "bancestry," or the like), but it's something they can do relatively late in the game.

I wouldn't rule out a press release and a YouTube video announcing something like them dropping the word some time next year.