Something I haven't been able to put my finger on before now that bugs me about the #DnD2024 / #OneDnD / #5E2E material is that it's dismantling the playstyle flexibility of the 2014 Player's Handbook.
With that book alone, you can play wild high fantasy, anchored high fantasy, low fantasy … the whole spectrum is available to you.
From Tasha's onward, though, you're playing wild high fantasy, period. People with animal heads are commanding swarms of spectral bees and that's just everyday life.
The new #OneDnD#UnearthedArcana wizard gets Memorize Spell at level 5, and I think people are going to miss how amazing this feature is. It's a prepared spell that that you can change in one minute whenever you want at no cost. That's absolutely amazing on a wizard.
Party: "Oh no, a locked door, and our rogue has been convenient disintegrated. What do we do? I guess we need a long rest in the middle of this dungeon"
It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my...
“The terrible truth of software security isn’t that people are incompetent or lazy (though that probably happens sometimes.) It’s that the interactions between components, dependencies, and overall systems are now so awful that they may be impossible to secure at a reasonable cost." http://trenchant.org/daily/2017/3/6/
@clarkvalentine "Software gets worse over time because what people change often isn’t related to making the software better in a coherent, measurable way. … What’s sexy and interesting in the world of software is adding features. … But if there’s a piece of software people are already using, by definition, it is useful and used. Most of the above is likely going to get in the way of that existing usage."
Hm. Sounds a lot like the #OneDnD UAs I've seen so far.
So, im not following this too closely, as I’m moving away from #dnd, but from what I gather from my timeline, it appears that #OneDND is basically just a bunch of rearranging and no actually improvements. There’s no upside in going along with it, aside from avoiding the risk that WotC is going to discontinue legacy support on #DnDBeyond, correct?
What this boils down to is a scenario where the community is forced to shell out tons of money to get new versions of books we already own.
Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience.
It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my...
Unearthed Arcana: Player's Handbook Playtest 6 released (www.dndbeyond.com)
Direct PDF Link: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/ph-playtest6/OJVW7QLuHjEFCCVs/UA-2023-PH-Playtest6.pdf...