D&D (2024) YOU are in charge of the next PHB! What do you change?

[overgeeked]

Moving stat bonuses to Background and Lineage to reflect your training is a pretty solid choice.

Or move the +2 stat bonus to your class. Leave the +1 for background and/or lineage. Just indicate they cannot stack, so your +1 becomes a floating +1.

 

[Steampunkette]

Alternatively: Get rid of Stat Bonuses altogether.

Just make the Point Buy/Standard Array already include the attributes.

Though if we have to keep stat bonuses I'd rather see them tied to Class and Background rather than Race. Or Class and Culture. That way we avoid both racial essentialism and cultural essentialism as things.

 

[Oofta]

True, but nature of the changes are less "I would fix the ranger's favored enemy" and more "I would change the ranger a spell-less wildness warrior" or "we don't even need a ranger class at all" level of changes, which to me suggested that people want a 6e that is again more different than similar to 5e.

Maybe it's the nature of the speculation thread, but its a good thing the next edition isn't being designed by committee.

Which is the problem, right? I mean, I don't even know why we have a ranger any more. You could have a couple of subclasses with wilderness rogue and a fighter with pets.

But even if it's not designed by committee you're going to have to make compromises because you can't please everyone. As I said in another thread, 5E may or may not be the "best" at any particular style or niche but overall it's the "okayest" version so far. I think for the majority of people it's "good enough".

 

[Fenris-77]

Alternatively: Get rid of Stat Bonuses altogether.

Just make the Point Buy/Standard Array already include the attributes.

Though if we have to keep stat bonuses I'd rather see them tied to Class and Background rather than Race. Or Class and Culture. That way we avoid both racial essentialism and cultural essentialism as things.

I'd like to see stat bonuses tied to a lifepath system, which is kinda like what you're saying, but not quite. Sadly, lifepath systems need to be bespoke by setting in order to really hum along. Or friggin' massive to cover most eventualities. Neither seems likely.

 

[Argyle King]

I thought of some other things:

The index would be improved. I feel that's one area which wasn't organized very well.

I would add some way to indicate which classes could choose each spell. Likewise, a list of ritual spells would be helpful.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Gotta go now but maybe more later.

But could you maybe go into more specifics next time?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Bugbear added to PHB.

You might be the first person I've run across with that level of enthusiasm for bugbears. What's the appeal?

 

[Fenris-77]

You might be the first person I've run across with that level of enthusiasm for bugbears. What's the appeal?

Reach.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yea, that's where I am. The requirement to keep it compatible with existing books (which means we can't really change class structure) is too much.

Shhh: This is a simulator to see what a 2024 edition that's not a full 6E could potentially be, while maintaining what appear to be WotC's restrictions on 5E books.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I find someone whose work I enjoy, but is a more qualified game designer than I am, to handle it.

That puts you in violation of the NDA. I hope you're not fond of your eyebrows.