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- You all wanted a TL:DR version of the new Unearthed Arcana - Character Origins. I really did my best to try and keep as short as possible, but there's a lot to cover. But hey it's shorter than my almost 2 hour livestream covering it!
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I honestly think they're gonna tie warlock spell-list selection to patron IE: Archfey-Primal, Celestial- Divine, Genie- Arcane
I really hope they do. I'd really like to see this extend to sorcerers, as well, due to their parentage. Then Sorcerers and Warlocks could be the "depends on their subclass" casters, Wizards and Artificers would be arcane, Clerics and Paladins would be divine, and Druids and Rangers would be primal. Bards are a bit of a toss-up for me, even though they're clearly MEANT to be arcane. Letting them choose on character creation might be cool; I could see a situation where a swords bard might be a staunch defender of a woodland realm, a magical battlefield support option, or a combat-oriented maestro, so letting them choose makes a certain kind of sense.
@@TheBuckBratager My guess is they'll Rework magical secrets or give it to us earlier so we can still get the support options we're used to with the Bard.
Fueling further speculation on the disentanglement of feats and ASIs, JC mentions level 20 feats, but no class gets an ASI at level 20. Might've been a throwaway line, but also might indicate that feats and ASIs are at least partially separate now.
The change for Gnomes is huge. They have advantage on all intelligence, wisdom and charisma saving throws.
Yeah, they brought the Vedalken ability into them.
They already had that in 5e phb
@@BlaineALambert Actually in the phb it was only saving throws due to magic. This is just all those saving throws all the time.
Not that huge considering those saves 95% of time were related to magic
@@UmekCrafter alot of monsters do nor use spells anymore rather than unique features to them. Having advantage on any and all mind altering effects is pretty good.
Thanks again for making this TL;DR Ted! I really appreciate it and definitely helped give the high points with a bit of context without the full deep dive (that I can watch later when I have a second). I’ve also been sending them to my friends who are a bit less “in the know” to keep them caught up so I bet they appreciate that too
About Aasimar and Ardling: I feel like the animal heads are very fitting for the Exalted (so Chaotic Good) planes. However, I feel like one of the Heavenly and Idyllic options should be closer to an Aasimar, and the other be different from those two. Maybe make Heavenly look like Aasimars did, (especially since they also get the light cantrip) , and make Idyllic have faces made of certain objects, like the artworks of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
The Guardinals were the beastly Celestials from the Neutral Good(Idyllic) plane, so it makes more sense for the Ardlings to be related to them. I agree about Aasimar being the Lawful Good option though.
Any DM I've played with in 5th would let you make an Aasimar look like any celestial you wanted, so this doesn't really feel like a new option to me, from an aesthetics perspective. The lore feels literally the exact same, and the mechanics feel really similar. I'd rather they just reprint an updated Aasimar, even if it was just in MotM.
Yeah the Ardlings thing seems so strange to me. Animal headed celestials would definitely be the Neutral Good plane touched. It doesn’t make sense to me that they represent all celestial planes. I feel like they didn’t fold the Aasimar into this race because they like the three different celestial revelations as they stand and didn’t want to mess with that.
@@matthewdavis9966 But if they liked them, why not just put them as is in the PHB?
@@Anisozygoptera I think they’re happy keep to the Aasimar as offered in MotM but wanted something that more mechanically mirrors the new Tieflings.
I hope they add eldritch blast as a feature that changes damage type with your patron. That would make a lot of sense.
I seriously hope that Eldritch Blast isn't too overcentralising within the warlock's kit, I do not want to see the 14 billionth tiefling warlock that spams Eldritch Blast in One D&D.
Variant tieflings do seem to be lost but on the other hand it seems especially easy to homebrew a tiefling lineage; all it is is a damage resistance, a cantrip, and a 1st and 2nd level spell.
Well considering that 5e has the option to have flying tieflings with wings definetly not quite as good.
I'm a bit out of the loop on this one, why did they retcon Mordenkienans Tieflings? Is the book out of print now too? Why did they do that? I have a copy thankfully.
Is it to do with them reprinting things into the multiverse book?
@@Carnagepwnz I did not grasp that either. Tieflings had so many options with the SCAG and MTOF that they were even more diverse than elves. And now they are down to just 3 with no customizability anymore. They also seem to have gotten nerfed compared to what they have with that old/current options.
They said in the interview all this content is backwards compatible with other books. If ur dm allows u can use the flying tieflings, u just don't add thier ability score increases from the race.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj this absolutely isn't actually backwards compatible without a decent bit of fixing, they're just saying that so people keep buying 5e books until it drops.
You just gave me flashbacks to the time I couldn't cast eldritch blast because we were in a room full of wizards.
I dont think they are only going to stick to the three spell lists for everything. It will only be used for specific things like references for feats and racial features.
All of the spellcasting classes will still have their own tailor made spell lists, so Bards will still gain healing spells and eldritch blast will still be a cantrip that belongs to the warlock spell list.
Only having these three lists would not make sense considering that means that Artificers will have access to spells that would not make sense for them (like Hex and Find Familiar).
I just realized, Humans get two first level feats, not game breaking but still pretty cool
What I think they can do for the half races make a table for the traits you can get if your a half race so for if you do like a half race if your closer to your human pearent you get the feat but you get elf spell and drop the rest but if you do the other way you get trance and inspiration to the table would include a main trait passed and a secondary for each race
Oh, silly random person on the internet, didn't you know that making such a table would be too time-consuming for Wizards? :/
I'm not trying to start any conflict with you, I'm just completely done with Wizards getting lazy with their work, in D&D and in MTG. They don't want to make half-races because they don't want any political crap going down on Twitter about being racist in an *imaginary game.* Instead, they'll say, "You choose what you want your half-race to be, first mechanics, then aesthetics." Since seeing Tasha's crap basically making races "human+" with fluff differences replacing mechanical differences between races, I've known they don't want to deal with anything related to race in terms of drama. How they're now handling half-races proves my point more.
I've made a half-drow, half-dragonborn fluff-wise by making him a Hellfire variant tiefling. Boom, creative solution to an interesting mechanical problem for such a character concept. This I believe is done *because* of mechanical differences between races (both drow and dragonborn have an increase in Charisma, so their kid will definitely have a Charisma boost). When you remove that, you get more boring characters because an Orc wizard and a Human wizard will mechanically be the *exact same* under these new rules. Same with a half-race and a full race. Wizards has decided to completely *ignore* variance and creativity for mechanical "equality" and uniformity, and because of this, they have gotten lazy with their work.
Sorry for the rant-y response, I just am not enjoying how Wizards is going with this. I'd absolutely *love* a full half race table thing with tons of variance between certain race combinations, but I think that will have to come from homebrew instead of Wizards. Since in 5e, everyone *already* relies on homebrew to some extent, I think Wizards is just drowning in their own poor decisions and they're trying to stay relevant by any means necessary while still trying to not offend anyone they care about (Twitter and the public society, *not* their players.)
@@salvadortoscano2534 yea cause I would be very easy to just cut the racial traits right now into main and secondary for the table and you pick a main from one half and secondary for the other cause that would also aid backstory wise if your making a character
Also add for role play cause then you can hide a racial ability while showing the other the other to convince them
Or it may give you sowing to bond with each race with like if you take the dragon born breath weapon you can use it as a bonding or convincing factor in relation building with other dragon born
That Can also help just mix within itself cause you can be born of 2 different dragon born and get the resistance of one buthe the breath of the other so many options
Re-Tavern Brawler: Should be "You are considered proficient when using an Object as a Weapon..." because assuming Improvised weapon category is out of the game, using an Object as a Weapon to attack still is an option for any character.
unfortunately, since weapons are objects, that would give you proficiency in all weapons.
"i'd like to use this greatsword as a weapon! good thing i'm proficient in objects!"
@@AndyReichert0 Good point. Which is why Improvised Weapon probably wasn't that bad a concept to begin with, just the implementation that was funky (especially when you had the unclear game terms weapon attacks vs attack with a weapon...)
Great vid! Nice balance between hitting the main points, and keeping it brief. Couldn't ask for anything more.
I think they need to put Fizbans Dragonborn into the new PHB. I don't like having so many iterations of the same race
I like the direction this new dragonborn is heading honestly. I just hope they make it a little stronger, and include the extra dragon family traits they got in Fizban's, but I doubt they'll add that part.
My singular biggest gripe is the nerfed critting for spellcasters, but also this nerfs rogues and paladins, since the crit won't include sneak attack damage or smiting damage!
Good, the Rogue and Paladin were one of the main reasons why people complained about the game being too easy. The worst thing a DM can experience is watching their BBEG getting one-shotted because either the Rogue or Paladin scored a crit. It's especially bad with the Paladin because it caused many players to abuse the system by crit-fishing and only divine smiting when they crit. It's bad for the DM because all of the build-up for the BBEG lead to an anti-climax, and the other players are robbed of agency with their big battle.
@@TheCrimsonElite666 that is a problem of bosses having too little hp, and should not be used to "punish" two thirds of the classes in the game, while making the rules more confusing and less satisfying even for the remaining third if they have any bonus damage to roll for in a crit, like hunter's mark.
@@TheCrimsonElite666 I nearly shit my pants when my NPC goon almost got One-shot by a *regular* hit from my player's barbarian. I think it's more of an HP issue, not burst damage potential being an issue. Paladins would save their smites anyways because they use their spell slots as fuel, why would I smite and waste a spell slot on that if I could get *double* the potential damage on a Crit instead?? For rogues, sneak attack is their lifeline for staying relevant in combat, being able to double the output on that on a Crit is *fun* for the players, all of them!
Critical hits in *any* game I think is supposed to be a bit overpowered, because it's meant to be relatively rare for a fun reward. Nerfing it hurts the fun of getting it, because now crits won't matter as much in combat in One D&D as they currently do in 5e.
Exactly the type of TL:DR that we needed. Thank you for doing the slogging
I hope they make unarmed strikes and weapons the same thing. I’d like to be able to use battle master techniques and defensive duellist on my Monk RAW rather than hoping my DM allows it
Bear in mind, with their logic on how fall damage bypasses damage resistance/immunity, unarmed strikes, not being weapons, also bypass immunities/resistances, which means you can beat a lycanthrope to death with your bare hands, but the moment you pick up a sword they're immune.
@@joebonar Monsters only had immunities/resistances against weapons in 2014, they updated later to immunities/resistances against attacks, so monks gotta wait till level 6 to start puching werewolfs
I really hope they lift the many restrictions of monks and artificer in the coming "edition". Its still really dumb that RAW you can literally have someone tie a shield to a monk's arm to turn them off.
Also I really like the Hit to grapple/shove mechanics. Bringing the rules in line with how creatures use those features and abilities. Though I feel like there should be a mention or optional ruling letting that attack to shove or grapple auto-succeed on a Nat20.
*still not a fan of crit skill checks and saves however*
@@OmegaTrooper1 Not a fan of crit skill checks and saves either
Hey ! You just brushed through the Grappled condition and their is a significant nerf for it. Now it's not a contested check to free yourself from it, it's either a dex save or a str save. It basicly means that there won't be any cheese builds with expertise in STR to pin down a creature since it's not a contested check now. Pretty big nerf imo ! But the fact that you get the "aggro" mecanic is pretty cool. Love your vids man, keep up the great work !
As someone who plays starfinder I got kind of use too this so I'm not as shocked as I probably should be. I guess they wanted everyone to have the ability to grapple, there will most likely be a feat later that gives u bonuses to grapple attacks or disadvantage to the save.
Yes, a huge nerf to martial classes and their ability to have some substantial battlefield control. Grappling was a way to do something more than "I swing weapon. I swing weapon again." I like that only weapons/unarmed strikes can crit in these proposed rules because that gave something special to martials, but WOTC giveth and WOTC taketh.
Loved your first TL:DR video and loved this one as well. Thanks!
Appreciate the level headed commentary. Reminding people that we just don't know how a lot of this fits together is a good point. It does make it harder to playtest some aspects of this until we get the bigger picture.
These summary videos are amazing. Please keep them coming.
18:21 The recovery of hit dice now round DOWN. This means odd leveled characters require 1 more LR to fully recover HD.
Even lvl characters only need 2 LR while all odd lvl (sans 1) require 3.
Great digest Ted! You did a good job explaining what’s in there as well as sharing counter points to some of the concerns that have come out.
Another change to long rests that I think you missed is now any amount of combat will negate your progress, not just if you participated in 1 hour of fighting.
True and I believe there is a third thing that changed with Long Rests. The recovery of hit dice now round DOWN. This means odd leveled characters require 1 more LR to fully recover HD.
Even lvl characters only need 2 LR while all odd lvl (sans 1) require 3.
I believe that, while the wording is very bad, the 1 hour of walking is a seperate from the other listed activities that break a long rest.
Cause 1 hour of fighting is an unreasonably long combat.
after seeing both of the vids, I started to fear for the Monk: as Feats that would have been seen as benefitial, but did nothing in 5E, such as the Healer feat, were changed, I'm a little bit worried that the Tavern Brawler (which still isn't stellar in D&D Next 2E) might be benefitial to the Monk in spite of the Class.
that said, we still kniw nothing abt Classes
These types of changes, while not bad, and some are good, will force more work onto the DM to give their setting the flavor it will need. Hopefully, they will include hints and instructions on doing that in the DMG. I think if they keep the core generic and setting free, and then let the splat books have the tweaks and setting-specific changes I think this could work quite well. Making the PHB more generic in the presentation will help with that also. If they don't, it's going to end up conflicting with a lot of the material and lore that came before that it's supposed to be compatible with.
For spell lists, I guarantee you're going to get a much smaller bard spell list and get to choose from the bard spell list and the arcane spell list. Or at least something similar to that but I bet both will exist.
From the video, I thought they made it seem like class spell lists wouldn't be affected by the change to Arcane, Divine, Primal; it's just for class-less mechanics like Magic Initiate.
(this didn't start as a rant, but now it's a rant!) I'm really disappointed about them changing rules because SOME people aren't familiar with or doesn't understand current rules. Case in point, spell attacks and crits. It's in the rules! If folks aren't getting it, then rewrite the wording so people DO understand it.
I also don't like that it seems like all you have to do is walk up to Jeremey Crawford and tell him that you don't understand something or tell him about your homebrew rule and now the D&D team is off to the races to change things. There is a large silent majority of players playing by the rules and not complaining about the rules. As a DM, I am super clear that a nat 20 on a skill check is not an auto success.
I've heard him say on a couple occasions that when people change the rules, that's no longer D&D. I recall that there was an issue with rolling an attack and the number equaled the AC. In the rules that is a hit, but the DM was ruling the the roll need to exceed the AC for it to hit. I'm paraphrasing here, but basically JC said "that's not D&D". So the disappointing part is that now people go up to him and say that they do nat 20s for skill checks and saving throws and instead of him saying "that's not D&D" he gives them the thumbs up.
Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the new changes. But this one grinds my gears.
"That's not (our) D&D." I think is *really* what he meant. Now, with WotC and most people in society being so sensitive to *any* type of criticism, Mr. Crawford now doesn't want to get cancelled on Twitter so he just agrees with *everyone,* now. Just stick with the game, and let the players change it however they want. That's obviously what we've been doing, and now WotC wants to generalize everything in their new edition to try and allow people to change what they want, as long as doing so doesn't change the RAW (like lore, aesthetics, etc.; fluff, not mechanics)
With the changes to Critical hits, what are the thoughts of a weapon like a flame tongue sword. Would the 2d6 fire damage double since it is part of the weapon damage unlike something like a divine smite? Interested to hear others thoughts.
With the current wording in the UA document, it seems that the only thing that would be doubled is the base damage of the sword itself, not any enchantment. They may clarify it in subsequent UA documents, but it seems like base weapon damage is the ONLY thing that is doubled now.
i liked most of the rules actually, witch is really surprising
still gonna miss the Half-Races, i liked the concept and always got bummed out that there where only 2 of them, oficially at least
In my campaign the races can interbreed so there are lots of mixed race people in the world. This rules set makes things way more simple to deal with.
One thing I wonder about is the implied elimination of the Background Features in the Character Backgrounds that provided more passive benefits and could lend themselves to your character's Roleplay. The Farmer could have had a Landscape Insight that let them see signs of unnatural or external influences on their surroundings similar to the Urchin's City Secrets that let them read the city.
I always felt like those abilities were so niche that they were better covered by ability checks. Farmer can make a nature check rather than look up an obscure, situational ability and it streamlines gameplay.
Something interesting to me is that magic initiate can now grant smite spells. Could be fun
Making my whole table watch this video before we try it out
Changing the rules on critical hit damage got me scratching my head, because getting a 20 on a roll should mean something, the same way that rolling a 1 does. It's okay to feel like a failure 5% of the time because 5% of time I feel like an absolute God.
It seems like the change to critical hits advantages martial classes versus spellcasters. However, it nerfs gish characters like Bladesingers, Eldrich Knights, and Hexblades who add spell damage to their weapon damage. Unclear if the reduction in damage by enemies is sufficient compensation. It is kind of nice that this advantages martial characters.
I fortunate enough to be part of a large online TTRPG group. I run 4 different campaigns that I'm DMing for, with 18 different players. Many of them are also DMs. We've decided to start running a bunch of one shots and shorts using the UA stuff. I like a lot of the new features, but I also think it's not perfect. Really looking forward to trying this out and we're all going to provide feedback.
I notice that Eldritch Blast is not on the spell lists, so is it going to return to being a Warlock-specific ability? Edit: Nevermind, I was mid-video.
I definitely cover that in this video, but yes, most likely
One thing that i think most people missed is that the half-race rules only apply to humanoids. Despite it being a thing that is purely flavour and used for roleplay reasons, some very RAW DM's might be very strict on that and not allow for fey-humans.
Yeah, some make more sense than others. I can totally see half-fey, but I get why there aren't half-warforged or half-plasmoids.
It also breaks Eberron. Several of the lineages are exclusive to half elves and half orc
@@thenuinn I hadn't even thought about that! I know it would be a lore shift, but I'd be okay with shifting House Tharashk to just full orcs. But I feel like half-elves have a really cool, specific culture in Eberron. House Lyrandar is my favorite.
@@Anisozygoptera ideally they would become lineages or first level feats gained by accessing a Eberron specific background.
I am excited for the shake up. Are they telling us to play test now even though we don't have class details? Also how will this affect Baldurs Gate 3? If ai were Larian Studios I'd be feeling a little hard done by.
I'm pretty sure Baldur's Gate 3 is built specifically off of D&D 5e, and will stay that way. That's probably something that's part of the agreement if I had to guess.
is sneak attack not considered weapon damage? it is of the same type as the weapon you used and would be affected if your weapon is considered magical or not.
So did WotC just
"Hey, we're releasing Spelljammer, the requested popular setting in for D&D 5e."
and then
"Hey we're making 5e obsolete!, throw those rules away!"
within days of each other?
📢 *My advice is to go look into Pathfinder 2nd edition as One D&D is very clearly heavily influenced by it ( i run and play Pathfinder 2nd edition , Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition , Starfinder & other systems ).*
I'm surprised, I like most of these changes. I hope they don't mess it up somehow
What? Tavern Brawler was nerfed so it only applies to furniture? My hopes and dreams are dashed! No longer will I be able to haggle with my DM that my character with Powerful Build and Tavern Brawler should be able to grab goblins and gnomes by the legs and swing them around like a flail! How will I use Powerful Build and Tavern Brawler to hit goblins with other goblins now? Who will put gnomes in their place now that Tavern Brawler has forsaken us? This is the greatest tragedy in human history!
💀
Such tragedy has befell us all. These are indeed dark times.
Odds are, the writers will put out a survey, so you can convince then to allow other combatants to count as weapons.
I mean…. You could argue that a dead goblin makes an excellent foot-stool, so they qualify as furniture.
I think they should change "furniture" back to "Improvised Weapons" but keep all of the other changes as they are.
This is a great format thanks!!
Id like to see the wording cleaned up with the ASI increases. If they called them ASI Points, and gave you 1 ASI Point per level and Feats cost 2 Points then it still balances with the current 2 ASI/1 Feat every 4 levels.....
Love these videos.
From what I heard so far, I like most of the changes. I appreciate a mechanical background that is separate from the lore/setting background. With how much homebrew games there are and how much different official settings we have come to see and will get further down, it just makes sense to me. I feel like this gives you a lot more adaptive possibilities to build a char. I do understand though, that some people might miss the more excessive „guidelines“ to races and background, as they now might miss something to grab on for their Charakter concept. I would love it if we would move to only the three spell lists, as the current ones are a pet peeve of me. Really excited about what is to come with classes .
Edit:
Also what a lot of people might forget, no one has to use any of the new rules. You can just proceed to play 5E or even 3.5E rules. In Reality, I have not once played in group that was absolutely RAW. It’s a bit like “Uno”. Every table has their own rule set derived from the RAW and every table is different. Some of them might stick close and some might do wild stuff. It doesn’t really matter for the game as a whole, bc all that really matters is that the players around each table have fun with the rules they choose to play by. And I actually do think, that by generalizing and decluttering the basic rule set, while similarly giving more freedom to the players, you make it easier for everyone to be able to play their idea of the game.
You missed one important change to grapple: It no longer takes an action to escape. It is an automatic roll at the end of each turn. I think this is welcome, as grappling is a bit OP in 5e.
Another important general change I see is in the *formatting* of the rules. They have clear, boldfaced bullet points for all the rules. This will be a very welcome change, as the existing books are quite terrible for quickly looking up specific rules. I guess this is inspired by OSE/the OSR movement. I would buy new books just for this, and I hope it stays in the final version. Spells badly need this treatment too, and I think they will get it.
My main question so far is if the new alert feat will stack with hare-trigger on harengon. The initiative swap is great, but it would suck if half a feat were just dead because I chose to be a rabbit
It's basically just expertise on initiative! 😂 As a DM I'd let it stack.
were is eldritch blast on the spell list?
looking forward to getting some class info, then really have a chance to put some of the changes to a 'play test'...
…you know what. Think I might just turn into one of the old geezers who just plays their edition.
Correction, you lose any inspiration you have when you START a long rest, according to the playtest doc. It is among a handful of dumb things I don't like that tend to slip past people's notice. It seems the very intention of resting for more than an hour causes your inspiration to evaporate into the either, so don't get caught trying to make camp or you will have to fight without any inspiration unless you can manage to roll a 20.
Regarding Critical Hit… I am fine that monsters do not deal increased damage for a critical… but to possibly slightly balance this, a crit could give disadvantage on attacks for the receiving character/monster for one turn (and maybe advantage to other attackers) while the character/monster shakes off the effect of that tremendous hit.
I could be wrong, but the read I'm getting from this and some of the other videos is that the monsters don't get crits anymore because they're going to be getting more Legendary Action type stuff: repeatable special actions that add more variety and survivability
So would the Critical Hit changes make adamantine armor pointless? PVP is not a core of 5E.
I think it's funny how many languages they're still handing out. Are all people in these campaign settings really trilingual? And why? Maybe it's just the campaigns I've been in, but languages have been even less valuable than tools. If they just did away with languages altogether, I'm not sure it'd change things all that much. Maybe a few spells and abilities that require them to understand you.
Tip for everyone: JUST USE THE FIZBAN DRAGONBORN PLEASE!!!!
I totally agree
I will certainly be using the Fizban Dragonborn AND telling WotC that is what they should be using in the PHB
Or put your constructive criticism and alternative suggestions to help remedy your issue with any of your concerns once they release the survey?
With darkvision
@@roninhare9615 of course we not gonna say like that 😂 but at least i will recomend this change
I like most of this new stuff, but I REALLY don’t like the changes to the crit rules.
Great video! I love that you do this!
I guess when they said its all compatible with 5e they meant the adventures. If you're a Tome of Foes or Volo's Guide owner you can throw that book in the trash I guess.
Well they basically trashed both of the books when they released Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse
U can still use the races from those books, u just need to remove the racial ability score increases from that race. They said that in the interview and u just need to mention it when u do the survey.
It means the alternative covers will go up even more in value.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj OR you can say "Screw that!" and homebrew some ASIs for the races.
The more I think about it, the more I think that some of these new rules are designed to break optimization/power builds. The Arcane/Divine/Primal spell lists aren’t meant to replace class spell lists, they’re designed to limit what you can take with Magic Adept. So no more taking spells like Booming Blade with magic adept on a martial class, no more taking something like Silvery Barbs or any of the other spells released in other supplements. You’re limited to one of the spells in these three lists in the PHB and that’s it.
The First Level Feats thing is obviously intended to stop people from using a variant human/custom lineage from taking something like Crossbow Expert or Greatweapon Master or Polearm Master at first level like a lot of optimization builds call for. I imagine they’re going to print a blanket rule that any feat that’s not explicitly marked with a level from other sources is assumed to be a 4th
Level feat or later.
The crit rules only doubling weapon damage dice and not critting on spells are designed to keep characters from doing things like one-rounding dragons and other things with a crit smite or crit disintegrate. I don’t doubt that there’ll be other ways to do it after, but they seem to be trying to break that.
If I had to speculate on further changes in future releases, I imagine that they’re going to make major changes to abilities like Action Surge to only allow for weapon attacks or unarmed strikes, so that every caster build isn’t like “so this is when you take 2 levels of fighter for Action Surge.”
I’m not saying I agree with any/all of these changes, just that it seems to me like this is the direction they’re going to be steering towards.
I think they actually plan to separate feats from ASI again because frankly that was a stupid idea to begin with. Feats are what makes a character unique but you also need the ASI in order to survive at higher levels. So therefore it was always a what am I going to do every four levels.
U do realize they said in the interview all spells will eventually belong to these new spell lists, that includes green-flame blade and booming blade, this is just the basic list for the spells only in phb which may add Xanathar's spells. Do forget shield is listed and that is still an amazing spell to get for a melee class.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj There’s already precedent for bonus spells from subclasses and races to be restricted to only those found in the PHB, and I seriously doubt they’re going to reprint all the spells in XGtE and TCoE in the new One D&D PHB. Magic Initiate was an outlier, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it would be limited similarly as well. Again, I’m not saying that I agree with that, but I do think they’re going that way.
@@hatihrodvitnisson they may go that way which would be a terrible shame, but in the interview he dis state that other spells would eventually fall under these eventually. He could still change his mind though. I do see them still printing Xanathar's spells in this since they haven't been reprinted yet.
You can't crit a disintegrate
savage attacker has been changed, no longer effects only melee attacks so slight improvement for classes that don't get extra attack i suppose. for the race it'd be a hard call not to go with a halfling with that 1 on D20 test being instant fail for all checks now
5% instant fail on everything and 5% instant passing is very dumb. Terrible change
I’m looking forward to playing an Ardling at some point. It’s not quite the canine-esque race I would’ve hoped for, but I’m now one step closer to making a D&D version of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He’ll be a Lore Bard, so he can get Cutting Word along with the cantrip Vicious Mockery and the 1st level spell Dissonant Whispers.
Id prefer if on top of choosing the apearance of one parent and the stats/mechanics of the other you also had the option to choose the stats of the existing half race.
I get why they can't give unique mechanics to every combination, but I will really miss half-elves having mechanics/culture beyond just being a human or elf.
the grappling mechanic changes is really interesting, an added benefit but the down side of free escape chances at the end of the turn. can they spend the turn their action to break out?
the on hit grappling makes is strange too, it's easier to grapple a 11 AC CR 2 ogre than a cr 1/8 town guard with ac16. It's true that with ignoring the athletics skill to it, you cheapen barbarians' rage ability, the squat nimbleness feat and any class that took expertise in athletics/acrobatics to be champion grapplers/shovers/escape artists, since the new 'escape' mechanic uses saves not ability checks.
My feedback will be, leave it as a contest, but add the new condition; disadvantage on other targets, and grappler moving gains that 'slowed condition. You could then make the 'grappler' feat have the added benefit of being 'on a hit with unarmed strike', that would give that feat a actual purpose.
I think one reason they’re changing it to not a contest is that they’re going to try and remove contests to conform with the new rules of “every d20 test automatically succeeds on a 20 and fails on a 1”. It could lead to situations where both parties automatically succeed or fail, and they’re going to try and remove as many instances of that possibility as they can. I kind of agree that it should still be a strength contest, though.
@@hatihrodvitnisson this is actually one of the changes that irked me the most. Because late game with expertise and abilities you could roll a skill check get a 1 but still end up rolling a 15 with a large modifier meant you could still pass. Now they change it to be like attacks where even if you get over their ac if you have a 1 you miss.
Is it ok to keep the bow tightened like that for prolonged periods of time?
It's not tight at all, it's not even strung
I love how they think they can force Inspiration to be a thing.
Yeah, seems like the new rules are going to encourage roll-fests to fish for inspiration. I can just see calling for an insight or perception check and the whole table shouting, “I wanna try too!”
Yep, basically just Inspiration farming. Which is supposed to be an optional rule. I don't use it, and I don't personally know any DM that does.
Half races not being a thing but having them have the main traits from one side is good, but a little iffy cutting them out like they dont exsist.
I keep seeing people referencing Evasion and these crit mechanics. Unless something changes with Evasion, it's only on saving throws which can't crit. Even with the new d20 test, they don't fall into this category.
The point being WotC said a dragons "crit" is its breath weapon, which more often than not requires a death saving throw
@@NerdImmersion Ah. I see what you mean now. I agree the wotc comment didn't make sense unless they are changing recharge abilities to be recharge the big ability when you get a crit. And then maybe only the major boss like creatures would have those. Even then I'm not sure where they would be going with that. They need to do something to revamp monsters though because even the newest changes leave most of them super boring.
Are you car shopping? Subarus are sick!
Nope, my visor mount broke so I needed to 3d print a new mount for my Forrester
My biggest Problem is all the passages that say to go look at the 2014 players handbook. I hope that’s just for the UA because buying a book that tells you to go look at the older book especially for new players that start with the new one really sucks. Besides that idk how I feel about the 20 auto success, it’s cool but that means if the bard wants to try and seduce the king into giving him the kingdom and he wants to roll you have to just say no you can’t roll since you can’t risk the 20 which is something that doesn’t feel right
At every table I play at, including the ones I DM at, you are never allowed to roll for something that is not possible to do. I like the rule change, because it forces the DM to cut down on frivolous rolls.
The automatic failure on a 1 bothers me even more than the automatic success on a 20. It devalues proficiency and expertise, and puts even more value in advantage and disadvantage. Before, unless a check was very hard(25 or above), a 20 was an automatic success anyway, unless it was a skill you weren’t proficient in and the related stat was under 10. But if you had expertise, then you could automatically pass most easy checks at fairly early levels. I don’t like that if I or one of my players has a +15 to a skill that they’d still have a chance to fail on an skill check of 5.
@@hatihrodvitnisson Realistically even professional athletes and crafters make mistakes and botch things. Olympic competitors can seriously mess up the equivalent of an acrobatics or athletics check so it seems reasonable to me. Keep in mind if the DC would be less than 5 they shouldn't be rolling anyway, so if it is something so easy for a given character to do they should just succeed.
@@Dragowolf_Rising It may be true, but those situations are usually far rarer than once in 20, especially on easier tasks. The challenges for Athletes would easily be a DC 25 or 30 or above, where there’s a fail chance anyway. A DC 5 or 10 would be more like asking a pole vaulter to hop over a 3 foot fence. If an electrician catastrophically fails at installing the wiring in 1 in 20 houses and they burn down, he’s losing his license. If a stage actor entirely bungles 1 in 20 performances, he’s likely going to be replaced. They may do better or worse sometimes, but there are things that a trained expert can do almost automatically.
@@hatihrodvitnisson If they can do it almost automatically then it is a waste of time to make them roll in the first place unless you are just determining the degree of success. Either way, it doesn't make the proposed rule the problem, just the way a DM might implement said rule. Even the current books say not to call for a roll unless it is meaningful, but a lot of DMs call for nearly pointless rolls anyway.
I certainly like some of these changes but others not so much.
What I like:
A feat at first level
Dwarves getting tremorsense
No more sunlight sensitivity it hampered a lot of player choices. I have a friend who picked half drow just because of that...
Expanded tool proficiency from Xanathar's now no longer being optional. Most people laugh tools away. Which is completly unwarranted in my opinion.
New slowed condition
What I do not like:
Crits only working for players and on weapon or unarmed attacks. Why even? That also nerfs grave clerics!
Automatic outcome on 20 and 1 for skill checks. Seriously So a Player can auto succeed A DC 25 with level 1?
The complete butchering of subraces. Just look at the poor wood elf there whole uniqueness with going stealthy is lost also downgraded wood elf magic. Also why do they get a 2nd level spell only on fifth level?
Ardling instead of Aasimar. Why make a completly loreless sterile celestial ancestry race if you have one with rich lore.
Dragonborn nerfed again just after being buffed?
Gnomes are now way to powerful considering saving throws.
High elves getting misty step. So they are Eladrin now?
Where are half orcs and half elves?
Removal of the Mordenkainen tieflings and winged tieflings
No background feature anymore
background equipment on several backgrounds does not even has rations anymore. Certainly a lot less equipment for example on acolyte and noble.
Feats being level bound.
Return to fixed ability score boni at first level just from background now.
Loosing inspiration on a long rest.
Seemingly removal of Eldritch Blast. If it becomes an ability for the Warlock now I still dislike it because you cannot pick it via a feat anymore.
What I am not sure about:
Uhh the new categorization of spells.
My biggest dislike however remains the change to wood elf. So they only get 5ft extra movement and get a worse wood elf magic. So They get that free house now but with the implication of yeah you have to take druidcraft as opposed to any druid cantrip and than on top of that you get pass without trace at level 5 only even though you could get all 3 spells at once with level 4 before that. Furthermore no more mask of the wild which was their completly unique thing. Elf weapon training also seems to be gone. Will certainly be fun on bladesingers than I guess. My wood elf druid also uses a longbow often so that will certainly also be out of the window. I sincerely hope my DM does not switch I cannot imagine her saying yeah you magically forgot how to hide and handle a bow... . If elf subraces now matter so little they might as well just make elf or have no races anymore at all? I frankly do not see the unique flavour in most of them anymore as the things they often get are now so minor compared to what the PHB from 2014 has.
I think the it was a misprint with the elf not getting the new version of trance, u see how they have been slipping on the quality of content since they have been focusing on 6e. I'm also kind of sad about missing mask for wood elves but it is a very poorly worded feature and tends to be forgotten about in most campaigns. They may be redesigning the hiding mechanic and may make this feature unworkable so it's easier for them to discard.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj I think Jeremy Crawford actually explained in an interview thwt only eladrin and astral elves are really supposed to tap into deeper trance. And on wood elves they should at least get something in return they certainly got nerfed a lot even though not being the strongest race to begin with. Also I frankly use mask of the wild quite a lot o.o"
A few things (in no particular order):
1) This is PLAYTEST let them know what you want how you feel about everything once the survey goes out.
2) Ardlings are not replacing Aasimar, Crawford himself said that they are just two different races with similar origins. (Also, they very rarely include any lore in the UA, that stuff is saved for the final book, because you can't playtest lore)
3) There is nothing wrong with the changes they made to half-races. It just gives an easy mechanical way to play any half-race you want. DMs often changed half-race lore in their own games anyway.
4) Background Features RARELY ever actually saw any in-game use for the majority of tables, the new way Backgrounds work is INFINITELY better, including ASI being part of them instead of Race.
5) Feats being level bound literally only serves as a positive for balancing them as the game adds more.
6) All Backgrounds get 50gp of equipment because some old Backgrounds really shafted players who wanted to be creative. Also, every background can easily afford rations with their leftover gold, so this is a non-issue.
7) I like spells not being able to crit, spellcasting has always had a massive leg up on weapons, and it was a thing in older editions, so it's not like it's a brand new concept. I do agree about Monsters not being able to crit, though. Not good.
8) The fixed Ability Scores are just for premade Backgrounds if you want a specific build, but the document says you can still change them however you want.
9) The Elf options are perfectly fine, though I agree, they need to be a bit more powerful and varied. (The High Elf getting Misty Step doesn't invalidate the Eladrin, because they don't get any special bonuses attached to their Misty Step. Eldarin still have their 4 unique bonuses and Shadar Kai still have their damage resistance.) Just add a bit more, like the Wood Elf's Mask of the Wild to each lineage, and maybe more spells, and they're good.
10) They have said every race after Tasha's Cauldron will be compatible with this new edition, so you can still play all of those races in One D&D, though I feel like they should just make the Dragonborn just be the Fizban's Dragonborn, just categorized like the Elves in this UA.
11) Everything else I 100% agree with.
@@Florian0799 if that's the case why do sea elves and shdar-kai also get it. Lore wise in all most world elves reciece memories from thier past lives, they also received these memories when they enter thier trance. It is a biological feature of all elves.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj Might have a faulty memory but as of now the 3 default elf classes have it not and neither does the document shows it for them. One shall see \o/
I feel like there should be one additional spell list
Yeah, a psionic spell list, right?
@@Ditidos yeah something like that!
It feels wierd bc there are 6 arcane classes and only 2 devine and 2 primal classes. I put 6 arcane classes bc of arcane trickster and eldritch knight, with the later making the fighter an arcane version of paladin and ranger.
This is the players handbook so ofcourse they will not include psionics sadly. They honestly made a half hearted attempt with psionics in 5e, it might be in this next edition but not in core book is my guess if at at all
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj Now that you mention it, an extra spell list for two of the right now arcane classes could make a nice simetry. That or the sorcerer and/or warlock having diferent spell lists depending on bloodline and patron, which seem to make sense.
My DM wont use these rules. My group Hate all of this. He showed it to everyone and they all said we will pass.
What is it with WotC and screwing over the Dragonborn? 5e has been pretty bad for them in general.
Honestly, just use the Fizban Dragonborn and give them the Darkvision. That is the best we are going to get for Dragonborn in 5e, or whatever the hell D&D in 2024 will look like.
I've been seeing this a lot, I've only played with PHB Dragonborn. I read those dragons yesterday but I don't think I get why they're so muck better than regular PHB. I believe I mightve missed a skill or something
This is playtest material so make sure to fill out the survey when it comes out, and make sure ur friends do as well. They already made a mistake by copy pasting the wrong trance on this document.
@@TRainbowPitt To me, the big change is that the breath weapon replaces a single attack, instead of the whole attack action.
I noticed that you missed that escaping grapple is no longer an action it happens at the end of your turn
I covered it in my long form video but yes a good catch
@@NerdImmersion oops I didn't see the long form my b
The more I think about it the more I believe that they made the right choice for once regarding half races. So get me wrong, I'm not against characters being half races, I just think it's a better way to handle it as a setting agnostic system. And it's going to lead to a lot more interesting types of characters. Tannurok PCs for instance.
Especially given that some half races ended up being stronger than base races
@@NerdImmersion good point.
It might still end up getting a little out of hand, but it just feels better.
Especially two for those people who really hate the concept of commingling species it's easier to deny that option than it is to deny a series of options.
Honestly, I'm not kidding by this I had zero hopes that this was going to be successful in any which way and I was pretty dead set on not even bothering to get anymore wizards of the coast books..... But, I think I'll be getting this one if this play test is indicative of their future products.
Reading some of the Comments here just makes my head hurt. (Or that's just lack of sleep and Possibly a bad eyeglass prescription)
Others have already said as did Ted that this is all just Playtest at this time, and unless I'm mistaken even after they make a final version it's all still optional. If people don't like rules laid out in any of the Books they don't have to be used at your Tables. The only issue with that is if Playing Adventure League (I'm biased and don't like AL personally, but that is because I had a bad experience with it and know that lots of people love AL play.)
Regardless of how this all pans out by 2024, the one thing I know is that Everyone that I play with will sit down and discuss what we like and what we don't and then move on from there. Again all the rules are optional at your Tables.
Unless I go and try AL again or try to run an Organized game that is not with core group and RAW creation is mandatory then nothing WoTC puts out is going to bother me. I have a great group of people that are all Adults and we discuss on a regular basis what we want to add or not add into our Games. (3 DM's and 4 campaigns, with the main one going for almost 3 years now)
I am of the opinion of Live and let live when it comes to things like this because at the end of the Day My D&D is always going to be different from everyone else's. We all can take away what we want from the new books in 2 years and still not worry about it changing any ongoing game. Sure it might change how a new campaign goes depending on if we use any of it but until it happens and the new books drop Nothing They have put out recently changes what's going on at My groups Table. It's all just different ideas being floated by that may or may not stick by the time the Book is Finalized.
Then again this is just my 2 cents and I have already figured out that I'm just an old Guy that doesn't know much, and also has no real energy to have arguments about things that in the long run don't matter...
@@mangacomics1601 Again what does it matter? Use what you want and leave the rest. I buy pretty much all the books and we still don't use every rule that has been put forth. That's what's great about it. You are not beholden to use everything that is put out in a book. No one can make you use rules that you don't like.
Races have been watered down so hard.
The only rule that's always mattered most is every rule is up to the DM who is running the game. My table. I decide what I'll allow from these books. Rules are suggestions at my table.
That's exceptionally bad take for playtest material.
This doesn't help provide any meaningful context or criticism.
I think different musical instruments should have different effects. Cos what’s really the point if you have proficiency with 3 different types of instruments? Never understood that other than flavour
I think the point of having 3 is they may change the magic item musical instruments so u must have proficiency? Also incase u lose ur instrument and can just turn someone's cook set to drums or tambourines... haha yeah right they thought that far. Who knows.
Auto successes on Nat20 just means DM has to limit rolls for things. Automatic inspiration is stupid. Lucky feat giving potentially 6 luck points is broken and urchin getting it for free as a background is wild. Going to be a lot of Urchin Rogues.
Limits creativity and fun interactions. King give the crown is clearly just no because if a player rolls a 20 has to succeed 🤦♂️🙄
@@heinenbard If a roll requires a DC over 30, you shouldn't make your player roll for it in the first place.
Many DMs have never even used Inspiration, so this is a good way to introduce that.
Lucky feat now is way weaker, balancing out disadvantage into a straight roll instead of turning it into advantage and not giving triple advantage anymore.
@@mangacomics1601 I said above 30, not DC30 itself, and I'm saying it cause it's literally what's written in that pdf
does that shirt say Kabuto Shippoden??
yes, he said that he picked it up at a previous con or something.
It does
Halflings no longer automatically know the Halfling language.
Farmers automatically know the Halfling language.
What the heck is this?
Other concerns.
The reason campaigns peter out after level 10, is that high level campaigns really need to be customized to the party to provide challenges without to much risk of a TPK. This is due to the character power level, and giving more feats earlier will end campaigns faster.
"Just Homebrew it what you want" is bad for two reasons. First of all, it's lazy. Why am I paying for rules that just say make stuff up? The answer is that so everyone in the community has a base for sharing their experiences. Second, it ends up gatekeeping inexperienced players out of the game. A full set of base rules to get people off the ground and into the game, before they start tinkering is so much better.
There is an Arcane spell list.
If they merged the spell lists for Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard and Warlock, and just let them all pick whatever, that's going to suck. Celebrate differences, don't erase them. More class specific spells, not fewer. Most people are using things like D&D Beyond, where you can put in your class it autosorts all the spells you can know.
I'm not really a fan of them stripping all the lore out of the fantasy races. No subraces for most of them that used to have them, and everything is shifted to backgrounds. It makes everything feel like humans that took a set of starting feats to cosplay as fantasy races
The lore will likely be transferred to campaign setting books. That way, for example, elves in the Forgotten Realms can have different lore from elves in Ravnica.
@@bigmikebeebee The only problem is they’re not really releasing campaign setting books, and when they are, they don’t really put that sort of information in them. If they did this wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
@@hatihrodvitnisson Not yet but it makes sense that they'd be coming as they move towards One D&D and embrace the multiverse.
@@bigmikebeebee I’ll believe it when I see it. For now, they seem to be stripping every word out of books that they can so they can cut down page counts and scrimp on print costs.
Instead of lowering the print costs the discussions from the imply they are trying to make room for more content in any given book. Seems like you have a negative attitude to change in general.
Why do the races just feel like skins? There should be things (beyond a Dragonborn breathing) that make the races different from one another.
When you make races settings agnostic that's basically all they are.
Yeah, I love 5e, but I think this is one of the main things previous editions did better. I'd love to see race-restricted feats, spells, and subclasses, with the caveat that your DM can always allow them for you if there's an in-game explanation for how you learned that culture's secrets.
@@Anisozygoptera can always ignore rules you don't want, but people keep asking WotC to remove more content so they aren't offended by different species being better at different things. Lots harder to homebrew it in for everything than just ignore it
But there are active things for each race. 6:26
@@ellelusina nothing that makes them distinct. If we are playing in FR I expect, as a player, that they are more dexterous than the average human. Now they are just "the pointy ear model". I expect Orcs and Dragonborn to be stronger, and so on. Now? It's all been washed away in the name of "inclusion".
They could fix this by, for example, giving Elves a +2 to Dex, and then getting a +1 to a stat for their background (+1 Wis for Acolyte).
What would be wrong with that? Or is that being "exclusionary"?
Epic format
Basically the half races are the main races reskinned without any different or intermingling mechanics? Boring....
Yeah thier needs to be a point system for each race feature and you can't go past a certain amount of points.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj this would really be great!! And would give homebrew race design in general, a leg up :)
I'm mixed on the new "d20 Test" term. It does roll off the tongue easier, but I feel like it can confuse players if used as a blanket. Like saying "Roll for an Attack" or "Roll a Dex Save" clue your player in better to add their modifiers than "make a d20 Test" honestly. I'll acknowledge that it's a new change, but I'll still be calling it as I have.
I also like Backgrounds giving Ability Score Bonuses over Races more. It makes more sense. That's a change I'm going with, whether any of this is made official or not lol.
I don't think the examples you gave have anything to do with the new term. I see it more as being created in order to more easilytalk about things that affect all three of those rolls, like Lucky or Inspiration. It will also help differentiate things that don't affect all three types of rolls, like Guidance/Hex (will still just say ability checks) or Bless/Bane (will specify attack rolls and saving throws).
I'm not prepared for the amount of derailment nat20's on anything is going to generate.
Nice Video!
I also hoped they will change the races to Ancestries or something. Just sounds better
It messes with the backwards compatibility and the OGL if they do
@@NerdImmersion Sadly, I do not know how the OGL works exactly. But just changing the Term shouldn't mess with it too much. But I don't know if Ancestry is a good term., in the german translation we use "Völker" which means People or a group of People with a shared Culture/Background.
From what we seen so far this is a very mixed bag for me, but there is also way to much we havent seen yet. I really do want to see how classes work and leveling up, but as it stands right now I don't think I'm all that big of a fan.
It seems to me like this is very early in the testing stages. Trying a mix of various new ideas to see what to focus on.
@@Xyphyri Indeed and its why I'm waiting with my final opinion untill we get more details its so much we just dun know atm.
Love Common Sign Language. Suspect players will power game that and take it regardless of background, etc. But I would dislike it being gated by making it rare, one of those things DM's are going to need to manage at their table if they want to prevent it becoming just a way to communicate silently.
If it's that common, the NPCs / enemies you are trying to keep your communication secret from is likely to know sign language and you are busted
@@jayfundling8663 Yup, if it's good for the players it's good for the monsters. Might be a good case for a "gentlemen's agreement" where the DM agrees not to abuse it if the players don't. There are always rules like this.
Please add chapters or timestamps to these videos so that it is easier for us to jump to what we value the most.
I have done a one shot so far and will do another one shot on Friday. My first group of players was fine with the new rules mechanics. We didn't use new races or backgrounds. We JUST did the new rules around inspiration, crits, grappling, etc. However, even the players think the DM should be able to crit because they said it removed some suspense and danger of the encounter for them. It felt less high stakes. From a DM side, the lack of crits only effected me like 2-3 times over the whole one shot and one was as the NPC helping the party. I think it seems weird to limit crits to just players - but I do like the limitation of crits to only weapon damage dice.
Because spells you attack with can never hit you in more effective places /s
Hate how they straight nerfed the healer feat.
How is that a nerf? Previously folks were limited to that healing once a short orange rest, now you can do it as often as the creature as hit dice.
As far as the stabilizing a creature, you can just use the action to have them expend hit dice to heal
The average heal with the current healer feat at level 5 is 12.5hp, 17.5 at level 10, and increaseing with each level. Where the UA one is anywhere from 6.5hp to 9.5 dependant on hit dice at level 5 to at most 12.5 average at level 17 for a barbarian.
It comes out you can only heal one creature once with the current one for more HP and go and heal a different one for the same ammount, vs two or three turns for the UA version to hit the same amount. Healing on one creature is more over time with the UA, but over all healing potential is much lower.
As for the stabilizing creature and bringing them to 1 hp, I used that much less and like the rerolling of hp on spells more.
Mathematically per heal it's a nerf, using it on the same creature is a buff but if you're bouncing from ally to ally healing the current use is much better. Where as healing one creture over and over again this UA one is a buff depending on level and number of rounds that have passed.
@@ExplosiveFuel89 ur r right but healing during combat is not about healing ur allies alot, just to get them to get up back into combat and not roll death saves. It could be better by making 2x ur pb, but it is a free feat, it does become kinda useless for between combat heals as u get into higher levels.
@@JoshuaSmith-hl1xj It honestly becomes useless pretty quickly by mid levels. Where even level 20 I've used the current healer feat and it heals a sizable chunk of HP 20%ish on most characters.
@@ExplosiveFuel89 You're not taking into account how useful it is for characters that have healing magic tho. Being able to reroll 1s on your Healing Word, Cure wounds, etc is pretty dang good
Honestly I think that everything sounds really good as a first glance. As you say, some thing depends on how they do the other things, but I like what I've seen so far.
As for the crit change I think it may be a slight way to reward weapon users for being a bit more limited. And I've always thought it a bit weird how weak critical hits are for weapons without any special ability or magic involved. Sharp shooter/GWM is a great example. I hit something with my +1 weapon and +3 ability modifier. Base DMG is 14 before the dice. I'm using a longbow, so base DMG is 19,5. A critical hits add another 5,5 and thus increase my DMG by 25%. Even without SS/GWM the DMG increase is only 50% higher than base.
Opposed to a spellcaster doing any spell that gets a 100% increase in DMG. Unless we are talking warlock with eldritch blast or draconic sorcerer with associated elemental DMG.
So yeah, tweaking it so that weapon users are the ones actually benefitting most from critical hits sounds fine to me, although I might have preferred them just saying critical hits double your DMG total. But that might make them way too powerful. Or have critical hits tied to proficiency bonus. You get +3 DMG for each point of proficiency bonus. That way everyone get the same amount, though the DMG scales poorly into upper levels of course.
So might just be best to make critical hits into "slightly better hits" as is suggested currently. Or you could say that you add the weapon dice size to DMG, so on a D12 weapon you just add +12dmg straight up. Anyways, minor thing since crits are a small part, but would be fun if they did have a bit more omf =)
My dm said he would change it to just double the damage delt by the weapon instead of rolling another dice so abilities like great weapon fighting style and savage have more impotance.
I disagree with auto fail with a one and auto success on 20 when it comes to other than combat checks. There are too many variables involved. Like if a rogue with a +8 to dexterity rolls a 16 on a DC25 and can't succeed. How can a wizard with a -2 to dexterity succeed on a DC25 just because they rolled a 20?
I'm kinda liking what they're doing with Backgrounds, but I feel that *as presented* it's entirely too structured and limiting.
I think it should be two Skills, one Skill, Language, or Tool, and one Tool or Language.
Give Backgrounds enough flexibility to fit just about any origin story: maybe my Scholar doesn't need a Tool, but wants as many Languages as she can get? Maybe my Farmer doesn't need any Languages but what the locals speak, but needs to know how to herd goats or drive a cart or raise a barn?