Nice podcast! You get a sub. From what I can tell, the wizards in their benevolence wanted to port over spells like Tongues to 2024 for all users going forward. When they announced this, there was backlash from fans who said (quite correctly) "I bought this content and you don't get to take it away". DDB was forced to include the legacy spells because that's all they could do with the short turnaround. They're likely already working on a more streamlined experience.
Forgotten Realms needed an Artificer class since the 80s when Gond the Wonderbringer brought guns to Faerun and his avatar was a Gnome who went to Lantan, the nation of Artificers in Faerun.
In case you weren't aware, there's nothing stopping you from using old subclasses, classes, feats, etc. with the new book. There isn't less content at all. Some people are drawing a line in the sand any only using things from the new book, but there's no real reason to as everything is fully compatible.
I mean if we’re thinking about it from the lowest common denominator like we mentioned, people new to D&D are going to come to the new PHB and there will just be less. Ofc I can use a peace cleric with the new rules, but also it’ll inherently have the old rules still because it wasn’t ported over, ya know? So yes, but also not really
The unearthed arcana Mystic class kinda fits that intelligence niche that was described. Unfortunately though some of its subclasses were pretty unbalanced. I dm for one right now (immortal subclass) and I definitely have to power up encounters to make sure there’s even a challenge.
Regarding the lack of INT-based classes: apparently warlock was INT-based in the playtest. As far as I can tell, it breaks nothing to homebrew that as an option. (The possible exception is if your player decides to multiclass hexblade warlock and bladesinger wizard; I'm still looking into that one).
When the Sorcerer first became a class, in the most evil setting book ever written for D&D, Carcossa. It was very similar to a Warlock as it had to perform sacrificial rituals to summon cthullian elder evils from the Far Realm.
Regarding the Tongues spell. It was buffed in 2024 version to include sign language. The legacy version of the spell never specified this and the language of the spell was updated to reflect this change.
@@IdCritThat i have a feeling it might be a coding issue so if/when they finally phase out 2014 they can move it all at once but still have the spells in 2024
I like the idea of CPR in game but I also think that revivify is more fantastical than the benefits of CPR. It could be fixing a literally caved in skull or a collapsed heart. In those cases the single minute window of use is pretty generous. If course, I tend to amp up any character death in my game so YMMV.
@@IdCritThat trying to give basic concussion care to someone with their helmet indented into the wound would certainly give some flair to the experience.
As far as I've read, I think the biggest issue with the new PHB is that they didn't put in the guidelines for using older content with the new class structures in the book, even though Crawford talks about them in a number of videos about the new content. There was also a video (I think from Direct?) where they mentioned that while Artificer isn't in the new PHB it will be updated in a supplement "shortly".
Nice podcast! You get a sub.
From what I can tell, the wizards in their benevolence wanted to port over spells like Tongues to 2024 for all users going forward. When they announced this, there was backlash from fans who said (quite correctly) "I bought this content and you don't get to take it away". DDB was forced to include the legacy spells because that's all they could do with the short turnaround. They're likely already working on a more streamlined experience.
Forgotten Realms needed an Artificer class since the 80s when Gond the Wonderbringer brought guns to Faerun and his avatar was a Gnome who went to Lantan, the nation of Artificers in Faerun.
In case you weren't aware, there's nothing stopping you from using old subclasses, classes, feats, etc. with the new book. There isn't less content at all. Some people are drawing a line in the sand any only using things from the new book, but there's no real reason to as everything is fully compatible.
I mean if we’re thinking about it from the lowest common denominator like we mentioned, people new to D&D are going to come to the new PHB and there will just be less. Ofc I can use a peace cleric with the new rules, but also it’ll inherently have the old rules still because it wasn’t ported over, ya know? So yes, but also not really
The unearthed arcana Mystic class kinda fits that intelligence niche that was described. Unfortunately though some of its subclasses were pretty unbalanced. I dm for one right now (immortal subclass) and I definitely have to power up encounters to make sure there’s even a challenge.
Regarding the lack of INT-based classes: apparently warlock was INT-based in the playtest. As far as I can tell, it breaks nothing to homebrew that as an option. (The possible exception is if your player decides to multiclass hexblade warlock and bladesinger wizard; I'm still looking into that one).
Iiiiiiinteresting, I'm interested to see how that unpacks
When the Sorcerer first became a class, in the most evil setting book ever written for D&D, Carcossa. It was very similar to a Warlock as it had to perform sacrificial rituals to summon cthullian elder evils from the Far Realm.
Regarding the Tongues spell. It was buffed in 2024 version to include sign language. The legacy version of the spell never specified this and the language of the spell was updated to reflect this change.
I missed that addendum and LOVE that they did that. That's a spell change that def should have been made a while ago
@@IdCritThat i have a feeling it might be a coding issue so if/when they finally phase out 2014 they can move it all at once but still have the spells in 2024
I like the idea of CPR in game but I also think that revivify is more fantastical than the benefits of CPR. It could be fixing a literally caved in skull or a collapsed heart. In those cases the single minute window of use is pretty generous. If course, I tend to amp up any character death in my game so YMMV.
Yeah fair, but you can still have the magical element while having a challenge for your players to keep their blood oxygenated you know?
@@IdCritThat trying to give basic concussion care to someone with their helmet indented into the wound would certainly give some flair to the experience.
As far as I've read, I think the biggest issue with the new PHB is that they didn't put in the guidelines for using older content with the new class structures in the book, even though Crawford talks about them in a number of videos about the new content. There was also a video (I think from Direct?) where they mentioned that while Artificer isn't in the new PHB it will be updated in a supplement "shortly".
The guidelines are there for anything that actually needs it. Everything else just works as-is.