New Core Book Information: D&D 5e Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual
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Revealed Core Book Art: www.gameinformer.com/2024/05/...
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0:00 Intro
2:32 PHB
9:18 DMG
13:12 MM
16:13 Summary 
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I’m super happy to see Aasimar making it into the PHB. The Tiefling’s foil should never have been stashed away in a side book somewhere.
It literally does not matter unless you play Adventurers League.
RULES GLOSSARY - YES! Fin ally an easy way to look up the raw mechanics of the game. I think people underestimate HOW helpful this will be and aid players across all levels and experience.
Cautiously optimistic about this
75 feats and crafting system? NOW I'M HYPED
I love a crafting system. My hope is that there are actually 75 feats and not 10-12 feats and then the ones no one in their right mind would pick.
@@MeepOfFaith hopefully, what we saw on the playtests is that many of the useless feats was redesigned to be more attractive options
@@MeepOfFaithof those 10-12 half are likely just fighting style feats since those exists now.
11 1st lvl feats from the playtest + 30 4th lvl feats + 16 epic boon feats + 6 fighting style feats + 15 feats from Tasha's - crusher, slasher, and piercer (since those abilities are now a part of weapon masteries) - artificer initiate (since arti won't be in the PHB) = 74.
So really, it looks like we'll only see 1 knew feat, unless they replace some of the feats from Tasha's with new ones.
Precisely. It's actually a little underwhelming, if anything, but we can hope on a higher quality @@sjhsoccer
One thing I really like about this is that they are ensuring that enemies of various types have varieties that are relevant at all challenge ratings and levels. I hope this extends to beasts, allowing for the Druid scaling that we've all been hoping for
Think I figured out which 75 feats are in the PHB. 64 (including epic boons) in the playtest, plus 11 of the 15 Tasha’s feats. Leave out the three weapon feats (Crusher, Slasher, Piercer) since Weapon Mastery replaces them and take out Artificer Initiate, since the class isn’t in the book. That’s 75.
Close I reckon. My only changes to this would be related to Tasha's already have the Fighting initiate feat, which overlaps the 6 fighting style feats in the playtest. I feel like in PHB2024 they would be better having a single lvl1?
Don’t forget Ability Score Increase is also a feat now.
@@AtelierGod Ability Score feat is factored in to the 64 number, as are all the PHB fighting styles.
@@John-Dennehy Fighting Initiate gives classes without access to Fighting Styles the chance to take them. The Fighting Style feats in the playtest can only be selected if you have the class feature, so the Fighting Initiate feat is still needed.
@@JensenGKP to my understanding of how it was written in the play test even if you picked a fighting style feat or the Fighting initiate feat unless you had the fighting style feature they wouldn’t work.
I'm guessing now that they figured out core racial flight with the 2024 Dragonborn, they're doing something similar with the 2024 Aasimar and thats what allowed them to put it in the PHB
I really loved the ardling flight feature so i hope they use that. Its cool to get a limited flight right at level 1.
@@gloryrod86 Yeah but that probably is going to put it on a lot of banned to play lists, and I really think the PHB should try to not have any races that are going to be banned outright.
@@bradleyhurley6755 why would the ardling flight be banned? It last 1 turn and is limited to PB per long rest, were not talking about the aarakocra here.
@@gloryrod86 Honestly, I think most DMs that would ban flight in the first place will ban the ardling since it has a flight mechanic. Like the ability to fly to overcome a challenge is usually why flight gets banned to begin with. That and if you can fly continuously you can just avoid combat, which is problematic (But also wouldn't apply here)
Also,
Chris don’t forget to sit relax and have some fun, and remember…D&D is for everyone!
I'm really excited to utilize a "blob of annihilation" the massive gelatenous cube as a BBEG; swallowing whole cities/towns!
If only they talked about the game mechanics and balance issues as much as they talked about all the art illustrations
they know 75% of the people who buy the book will never play it
@@LordSathar And 75% of the people who play the game will never buy the book.
The "75 feats" might include the epic boon feats and the character creation ones - so it might not be as many as you emphasized. That being said - still a great improvement!
My guess is the 20th level feats are being counted in the 75. Those are just taking up space for 99% of campaigns.
My people will hit that level.
Not if there's more support for higher level play, it's one of the things they said they wanted to work on
Plus fighting styles were counted as feats in the UAs.
Someone on reddit seems to have figured out which 75 feats are in the PHB. 64 (including epic boons) were in the playtest, plus 11 of the 15 Tasha’s feats. Leave out the three weapon feats (Crusher, Slasher, Piercer) since Weapon Mastery replaces them and take out Artificer Initiate, since the class isn’t in the book. That’s 75.
Ecological details for monsters was something they used to do it 2nd edition. A lot of those detail may seem academic at first, but really they are adventure hooks and ways that the players identify, track and pre-encounter the monster.
Thank you for the new coverage and insightful commentary. I look forward to more 🙂
Thanks for the update!
I like having more “recommended” items for building a character. So many new players have the experience of doing something like dumping CON and then regretting it, or making a generic caster and trying to walk into melee. Recommended options help those new players without taking anything from a veteran who wants a unique build.
Even though the Monster Manual is coming out in 2025, it is still part of the 2024 revision, so it will be called the 2024 Monster Manual.
As always, thanks for keeping us updated on the game and providing perspective with your exceptional analysis.
Great Video Chris! Extremely educational and informative ❤👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats great! Thanks Chris!😉
So far I am happy with the news. Just a bit concerned about some changes, such as the moon druid subclass.
Alsso that they have more monster families is great. They had those in 4th edition and that was great. 5e has been very rules friendly, but content wise very reduced.
the worry with monster families is that, depending on how pervasive they are, it actually could indicate a reduction in the variety of monsters. if we go from 300 to 500 monsters but all of the extra 200 are variations of the 300...thats fine, we didn't lose anything. but if we actually only have 200 monsters and the remaining 300 are just the 2+ variations of each of them then we've actually lost some variety.
But i do generally like the idea of monsters families, similar to how dragons were in...i think the original printing?
I'm excited to get this.
Always love your videos
So bloody excited, I'm liking so much of what I see from the rules to the art.
I like what I'm hearing, hope it lives up to it
I'm really excited that they're releasing updates to the Creative Commons SRD. I hope the community encourages them to keep that up!
I'm a bit sad they're still sleeping on my dude the Artificer, otherwise it seems very likely this will be a highly refined revised edition to look forward to!
I suspect that decision came down to making it easier for DMs who are running campaigns in settings where artificers aren't a class option, including the many home versions of the Forgotten Realms where they are mistakenly or deliberately left out.
For the record, Artificers are canon Forgotten Realms and have been a long time. But there is a persistent myth that they don't exist in the Realms or that they _shouldn't_ exist because they (it is ignorantly claimed) "don't fit" the setting.
I wish they were in the PHB. But as this is supposed to be more setting-agnostic, I guess I get why they'd leave it for the coming settings books.
-Or, they feel like they need more time to get the artificer class _right_ for the redesigned system. Maybe they've redesigned many of the magic items and want to see how they play at our tables before rebalancing the Artificer.
While I would have also liked to have seen an updated Artificer, particularly since they already have 4 subclasses and Alchemist could use a bit of love, I can kind of see why it ended up being the odd class out. Of the official classes, it is the one that is the most setting specific.
I mean, you can theoretically come up with any setting that would make one or more of the official classes not fit. Wizards and Sorcerers would not fit in very low magic settings. Clerics might not fit in a homebrew setting where gods don't exist. Even seemingly ubiquitous classes like Fighters and Rogues might be out of place in a homebrew world where magic is so pervasive that literally everyone is a spellcaster. Artificers, though, have a very specific magitech vibe, usually leaning towards steampunk or clockpunk, which usually requires a world with at least a Renaissance-level aesthetic in order to not clash with the setting, and those kinds of settings are less common, at least in the official materials.
Artificer is from the eberron setting. It makes sense why it isn't in the new phb
@@matthewvillanueva4420 Artificer is 100% canon Forgotten Realms lore.
Followers of Gond, the Imaskar, High Imaskar (which only fell like 4-5 years before BG3 takes place), and Deep Imaskar, which is still around (though reclusive). Some of the Netherese, too, are still around in the 5e era, according to Ed Greenwood.
The fact that Lantan is _back_ from Abeir and even more advanced technologically than when they left - though we don't yet have a book on them.
Spelljamming also brings artificery to Faerûn, and we have a bunch of Spelljammer content in 5e canonically venturing to Toril, both in Adventurers' League and in the more recent books.
It's a myth that Artificers "don't fit" in Faerûn canonically. The confusion boils down to the fact that WotC didn't get around to publishing the class for 5e until the Eberron book.
And a _ton_ of people only know Forgotten Realms lore from the 5e books.
In lore, Faerûn is in a temporary technological lull, compared to its past, due to the Second Sundering (less than a decade ago) and the Spellplague (within the last ~150 years).
Aww man i’m so excited!! 😭
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned so far is the buff creature families means for Druid shapeshifting.
Really excited about this. Seems like they've put a ton of work into this and really want to do what's best for the game
Thanks Chris
Sounds pretty frickin solid so far!
Conceptually this is basically EVERYTHING I wanted to hear about from this book. I'm feeling hopeful.
Wow, I’m really hoping these books end up good. We’ll see….
Seems a lot more exciting of a release than I was expecting. All the monsters being changed in some way and tons of additional creatures sounds awesome.
The crafting and tools are what I'm looking forward to most from this new info. I've got an artificer that I want to flesh out in the 2024 context, so getting these details will be very useful while I wait for a potential updated artificer in the future. I may not know which of the new spells said artificer will have access to (or class feature changes), but at least I can get him setup with everything else, and have a potentially more flavorful character.
For tools, I hope they include a more detailed description of what comes in each tool kit, and if there are new artisan tools, I may even swap what tools my artificer uses. For crafting, I hope the process is streamlined enough that I won't need massive downtime for one item. I'd like to make at least a few magic items to not waste infusion slots. And hopefully common magic items can be whipped up in a day or two, since I enjoy the flavor of handing out mundane items like that as an artificer, to make up for if I end up hoarding my infusions.
New feats will also aid in this, but as other comments have said, it's looking like we've seen all but one of the feats already (unless epic boons go to the DMG, opening up 16 more spots).
Thank you Chris for doing this video, much easier to share than getting a friend to read that tiny print on the webmag!
Oh, by the way, the Wild Magic Sorcerer art is in the article, female halfling, page 15 iirc.
Speaking of new art, your recent thumbnails have been awesome.
Glad you like them!
75 feats would be great! I'm hoping that they're not counting every version of magic initiate, every version of elemental affinity, etc as a separate feat. Fingers crossed
Expanding enemy types to be viable at all tiers of play is very nice. Its what Pathfinder 2e does very well so I'm glad D&D is following suit.
Last time I did that my players were really confused. I They were all like, Kobolds aren't supposed to be that tough. I can't remember if I used dragonshields or I MCDM's book.
For the feats, I wouldn’t be surprised that a good part of them is either the Boons feat (lvl20) and/or revised xanathar’s feat
This sounds really promising. I was worried it would mostly be a combo of Tasha’s, original phb, and xanathars, without actually having much new with most just being fixes for stuff that was op, but it sounds like it’s actually new. For feats for instance I was worried it would just be copied and pasted from those books (the feats in all 3 totals to 72 so 75 could easily be just those feats + a couple things for new stuff like weapon masteries) and a couple options that were abused like gwm and crossbow expert being changed by not new overall, but it sounds like that’s not the case. Also it sounds like they’re making an effort to both make the books better designed and have all the stuff that isn’t super clear or fleshed out, like tools.
Excited to see it because this sounds very promising and like they’re making a good effort to offer something that’s actually a significant improvement in quality while preserving what people love about the game
Good morning Chris! I have just one video left in my quest! The Order of Scribes is the final one!
I'm super curious if the article mentioning Orcs means we'll actually have full blooded Orcs as a species, or if they'll stick to Half-Orc.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on info like this! Your diligent work is super appreciated! Have an awesome day! 💜
half orcs and half elves appear to have been somehwat removed, taking savage attacker or skilled as a level 1 human is probably their replacment since that kinda takes over they're gameplay role.
Greyhawk. Now I'm hyped. My first setting. Back to battling the forces of Iuz in the Vesve Forest. Adventure awaits!
This feels positive. I am hopeful.
Thanks Treantmonk! ❤
No problem!
Love the new logo and thumbnails, but we were promised builds. My tactical blaster kenku is looking for guidance
More Feats, more monsters, Aasimar added, and the dragon redesigns are amazing to hear! Rules glossary, in depth crafting system, information on settings beyond Forgotten Realms and so much more! All fantastic stuff.
I just wish we got to see the Dragonborn.
I really love the new dragon art. It really feels like the red dragon is the classic dragon, but even he has an update with a gray underbelly like he is hiding in the smoking ruins of his lair or conquest. The bronze dragon is a huge step up! Fins to help it swim and patina feels just right!
One thing I hope they have is rules(or at least guidelines) for buying and selling spells as a wizard rather than scrolls. What is the value of that wizard's spell book, how much will it cost to buy a spell of any given level and what are some availability guidelines depending on settlement size and overall magic commonality in the setting
I wonder with only 4 subclasses for wizards, if the different subclasses in the 2014 phb will become a single subclass called something like school specialist
One might hope but I've found that the impulse to equalize or square every rarely panned out. Instead the thing that were cut down to size usually end of cut off at the knees.
I believe it's been confirmed that the Wizard subclasses are Evoker, Abjurer, Diviner, and Illusionist, so those basically replace the Evocation, Abjuration, Divination, and Illusion subclasses from 2014, while anyone who wants to play a Necromancer, Enchanter, Bladesinger, etc simply uses the pre-2024 versions of those subclasses until a hypothetical later release updates them.
@@CivilWarMan The transmutation wizard could have really used an update.
The single most important thing I've learned over these past few years is: Good products are nice, but when you sit down at the table, the only thing that matters is putting them away and having a good game. Pretty books are fine, but it's a problem if you are just reading them when, really, what you want to be doing is playing. What I want is good rules.
I'm interesting in the crafting system in the PHB and DMG.
Also, orc and elf
Dragonborn and goliath
Aasimar and tiefling
Finally we get some serious dichotomies right in the PHB, I've been wanted goliath and aasimar for a while, I am very happy with a similar design philosophy for subclasses
Also, I very much like more monster groups and stuff, more varieties of vampires is awesome
As someone who started in Greyhawk many years ago, I am both hopeful and bracing myself for the DMG.
I remember the old poster map, I wonder if the new one will have the hexes?
@@TreantmonksTemple I would love to say yes as a nod to the older maps/players in some ways, but I admit I would be surprised if they did given their most recent maps and their desire to show backwards compatibility.
_Rules Glossery:_ yay!
Will they include a 'how to fill out a charcter sheet' section, or are they assuming no one does that on paper anymore?
"Matt Miller"
Not knowing who that is, I automatically wonder, "Mercer?"
on the one hand I'm super glad this is going to be such an upgrade, on the other hand I'm super upset that I'm being tempted to by the book again.
can't wait to see all these new and old monsters with poison immunity! ;)
Joking(?) aside, sounding good so far, we'll see how well these plans of weasels and wizards do in action tho.
Given that feats now have prerequisite levels, 75 feats isn't a lot when divided across 4 to 5 tiers of play. It's only 15 feats per tier if you considered level 20 capstone as a tier of its own.
Sounds like only about 30-45 will be playable then, and since the majority will likely just be fighters fighting styles since they are now feats, I wouldn’t even be surprised if the majority of these feats are underwhelming or significantly smaller than the RAW numbers would say.
Considering that the playtest did not include any feats with prerequisites of level 8+ or level 12+, there are likely going to be only 2 or 3 kinds of feats that are level-gated. There will be the Background feats available from level 1, the traditional feats with a prerequisite of level 4+ so they can't be taken at character creation, and maybe epic boons for level 20 characters. Though I could also see the epic boons being shunted off to the DMG since they would be considered a more optional rule due to them not being relevant until the highest of high tier play.
In my very first playtest survey, I said "why create a new aardling race instead of just putting the aasimar in the phb?" I guess enough other people did too.
It's nice when they listen to our feedback
Personally I liked the first iteration of the ardling and thought it was close to what I'd like ideally.
The aasimar to me are rather boring, don't like the name either, and with the UA tiefling I was hoping the ardling would be its mirror. The tiefling has abyssal (demonic), chthonic (underworld/dead), and infernal (devil). Practically all that you could want to make a lower planes character.
So the ardling would offer three unique and interesting legacies: the beautiful/glowy angelic/nike people (aasimar), the animal human hybrids, and some other exotic legacy.
For the third legacy I like the idea of beings of light encased (some partially, others not at all) in animated statues. But other ideas would work too.
Any complaints about "furries" with the ardling or saying it would only fit in an ancient egyptian setting are missing the fact that animals and animal human hybrids as divine entities are in almost every religion. Even chrisitianity had it.
Never been this early. Cover looks cool as hell.
Thanks for doing the breakdown of the article. Unfortunately unless you sign up to the magazine it doesn't let you read the article.
Sounds exciting. I am staying optimistic that they get things right. I do think that both Crawford and Perkins see D&D as more than just a job so I believe they will do their best. I am sure it is some corporate suit that gets to make the final decision, hopefully Jeremy and Chris fought hard to make this the best version yet. I started playing in 1983 and while 1e AD&D will always hold a special place in my heart, I do believe 5e is the best edition so far so editing it instead of starting from scratch was probably the best choice they could make. Guess we will have to wait and see.
As a huge Eberron fan, with the Colossus being mentioned for the Monster Manual, it would be awesome to have Warforged in the Players Manual
I' mso sad they didn't just wrap artificier into this. Just throw all 13 in the final version. i mean why not in the end... make it a full edition synch. Would've been a great time to tweak alchemist.
plus that would've really solidified the choices and 13 is such a good number for things
I really hate the artificer doesn’t feel dnd to me.
Maybe it'll be one of their first 2025 books to circle back to the eberron artificer who is also useful for some of those mtg realms. I need more DND mtg crossover pamphlets/books.
@@snoochieboochies2011 Why? They're crafters and infusers. Anything manufactured/artificial is the work of an artificer.
A witch making a charm of protection is an artificer.
A golemancer carving runes to animate a crafted figure is an artificer.
The enchanter or even the blacksmith improving your weapons is an artificer.
The wizard crafting scrolls is an artificer.
The artificer belongs in every setting.
Even if it were a no magic, stone age setting, that one guy over there can sharpen that stick better than everyone else. Wow, what an artificer. A real artisan.
And if it is a setting full of magic, then huzzah! They will infuse the mundane with the arcane to create magic items.
WotC are the ones who shoehorn the class with all the magitech/stempunk vibes (of course those can be used, but any theme can work). There's no reason for them to not belong.
@@arbitrary_thoughts In my personal opinion I just picture the guy that smiths magic items being a fighter as silly. Regardless of the setting somebody has to be making magic items right? I just don't like it as a class, the steam punk thing makes it that much worse.
They're including crafting rules, maybe the artificer is moot at that point.
I'm worried about 75 feats, that's a lot of content to try and balance. Hopefully its tiered so you're only balancing subsets (lvl 1 feats, standard feats, epic feats).
The playtest did show feats as having level pre-requisites, at least for levels 1 and 4. And if you include all feats from all official sourcebooks there are already way more than 75 feats. I imagine the new PHB will be consolidating a lot of the non-setting-specific feats that are spread across multiple books. I would be surprised to see a lot of NEW feats.
I am glad this is looking awseome, I am sad how many Wizards folks we lost for no good reason that likely massively contributed to this volume.
Are the Epic Boons being added as feats?
As a M:tG player it always gives me a chuckle when people are talking about DnD and for that matter talking about any fantasy genre.
Whenever art is flashed on screen 80% of the time i recognize it from Magic. There are like over 25,000 unique card if you count reprints that’s like almost 50k. Each card needs art but I couldn’t tell you how many of those cards have unique art but there is a VAST amount of card art. Several times a card gets reprinted for a different set and they need the next reprint to have different lightning bolt art or what have you.
It just tickles me to no end when I see the art used and know where it comes from. Now the new books will have art it’ll be more difficult to tell.
I am going to miss this era. Once this comes out the split begins: 5e players who are fine as they are and those who want the newer system.
It has always been part of TTRPG culture, but it’s not to say it becomes a bit sad as fragmenting happens.
I am doubtful, they are so similar.
I'll still take the low-magic art from the days of yore. It better reflects how I envision fantasy.
Finally it sounds like it has more art
Will they also illustrate the condition Grappled in a way that matches its game mechanics? :-)
All three books sound like the versions I jave wanted to see since I started playing. The creative team has done a fantastic job listening to feedback and providing meaningful changes in the playtest. I just can't get myself to want to purchase them unfortunately due to the terrible direction of WOTC, but perhaps in the future I may be able to support them again.
Thanks. We are trying to decide if we’re going to convert from 5e and, with 6 players who already have the books, it’s not an easy decision.
1) Having the Aasimar makes a lot of sense, but with dragomborn as a reptillian race, I kinda wish we had another animalistic race like the tabaxi.
2) I'm very glad they're focusing more on greyhawk as a default setting, FR is super overwhelimg with so much lore that either your players have no care or knowledge for, or they know way more than you and its intimidating, a simpler setting is nice. Much as all these books are hyperfocused on selling the DnD tm brand tm because thats how they want to leverage 50th anniversary and pull people away from other games or third party publishers due to the srd
Does anyone remember how many feats there were in the 3.5 players handbook?
This all seems quite excellent, of course not all the implementation will live up to the descriptions, but going off the latter playtests I think it will be a notable improvement to the game.
When you pick up the new players handbook for the first time, what’s the first thing you’re going to look at/check?
See if they've gotten rid of the bonus action spellcasting rule
I'm wondering which new subclasses we will see next. The tree barbarian and sea druid are confirmed but the brawler fighter and dancing bard have been eliminated. I'm praying to get new fighter or a revised cavalier
I suspect the reason we're seeing 75 feats is that WotC is likely porting many of the feats from TCE and XGE (probably with tweaks, I don't expect the racial/species ones to make it as is). As you pointed out, all the feats from PHB, XGE, and TCE makes 72.
There's almost certainly going to be quite a bit of that, much in the way that the Summon spells from Tasha's are getting ported into the new PHB. And there are many reasons for that, including 1) making sure cool feats from XGE and TCE are available to all players without them having to buy the older books, 2) rebalancing them to buff weak feats, nerf overpowered or easily exploited feats, or redesign them to interact with newer mechanics like weapon masteries, and 3) adding a level 4+ prerequisite so players can't try to exploit the lack of prerequisites in the older books to justify taking, say, Fey Touched as their "background" feat.
I would be astonished to see racial feats, but I wouldn't be astonished to see racial feats repurposed into general feats.
@TreantmonksTemple I also don't expect to see any racial/species specific feats anymore. I tend not to like them because they create an inherent imbalance by providing some species more options than others, even if I do think it's sometimes nice to lean into some of mechanics they provide for flavor.
For the 75 feats, don't forget that might contain Fighting styles now, as well as the ASI improvement feat itself.
I thought Blackmoor was IN Grayhawk. Perhaps I’m wrong?
How thick is this book going ot be!
This has me really hype. If all true, they're fixing everything that aggravated me about the current handbooks. Especially the DMG which left a lot to be desired as a new DM with no experience and nothing to really go off of in terms of what a DM should do. When I started wanting to DM and I read through the DMG and it starts with "How to build a WORLD" before anything else, I was lost and the rest of it didn't help much either. I needed to be told step-by-step what to do mechanically for running various things and how to prep aside from to vaguely narrate and referee. Reading through older D&D books like BX, many 3rd party materials, and listening to RUclipsrs has helped me a lot more to become a DM than the official books.
Still hoping we'll get some details about what the new bard looks like...
75 balanced feats is awesome. I'm waiting for subclasses balancing, monk balancing, weapons balancing + more official weapons options. I'm half hyped for this book.
If it's just the last playtest Monk they'll be in a pretty good spot
If the playtest is any indication, the weapons are far more balanced and the monk is good. Most of the subclasses are balanced pretty well 2
As a newer player, no crafting system was really lacking. I hope if you play in forgotten Relams this allows you to craft say a
Holy Hammer (Warhammer)
+1 to attack damage Damage: 1d8 Bludgeoning (1d10 versitile) +1d8 Radiant on hit; (perhaps if rolled well also has bonus damage vs Undead and/or Fiends and/or Evil Aligned characters)
to Craft: Maybe takes a 500 gp Diamond and has done heroic deeds and 5000 gp cost to imbue and a town like Waterdeep or Silverymoon would have the Cleric of sufficient level available.
simple to the point, not as much damage as Flametounge or Frost hammer and no other properties, should be a good level 9ish weapon when your Paladin has thousands of Gold to spend. Seems like a fair Rare type level item.
And you could have other ideas (Ruby for Fire, Sapphire for Cold, Topaz for Lightning, Obsidian for Necrotic, etc) and could be Wizards/Socererrs or Artificers could do those.
I am SOOOO excited! I loved 5e, but this seems to not only preserve what was excellent about 5e but to add a GREAT DEAL to it! I think "extensive play testing" has worked out very well for them and hope that this is a huge success!
I'm concerned/curious what they are doing to multiclassing.
16:25 I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to say wild shape barbarian but instead world tree Barbarian.
Whoever is responsible for this should always do PR for WotC. This was good. Honestly, so good it almost makes one cautious.
They had to qualify that the Monster Manual was "the Biggest that WIzards of the Coast" have ever produced because the 2nd edition Monstrous Compendium has more than 600 monsters in it but was produced by TSR. Though you could argue that the 3.0 and 3.5 MMs had more because of the templates. A lot of this exciting "New" stuff seems to be them reaching into the past and pulling things that worked well before, so we shall see. Right now I'm only committed to getting the corebooks because that is what I've done for every edition at the least.
Hoped they would add the Fizbans Treasury of Dragons 3 distinct sub-species of Dragonborn: Chromatic, Gem and Metallic. I know Fizbans sourcebook is " recent " but you could have added these alongside the new improved mixed- sub specie standard dragonborn. Mixed in that they mostly had VERY few scale colors ( brown, red, silver ) and had an odd mix of chromatic and metallic dragon ancestry dragon species.
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And odd, WotC didnt include Gem dragon ancestries for Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer in the Fizban source book and that and Gem dragonborns in the new 5e Player handbook! Again, I know Fizban Treasury of Dragons is a recent and presumably compatible book with 5e24 but still
LASTLY regarding Dragons. BRACE yourself for a wall of text! Grab a drink! 😂
Truly hope you add Gem dragons to this enriched Monster Manual since it has som many new extra monsters in it.
Maybe extra 5 true dragon groups of each family too ( Chromatic, Gem, Metallic, misc ) Bloat excuse is pathetic. As long as each dragon is unique and behave distinctly, have good origin story and neat quirks. Its dungeons and DRAGONS.
So my dragon obsessed wishlist?? Including from all editions and newest Fizban Treasury of Dragons:
True dragons means a Dragon have pair of wings and 4 legs. Wyvern have 2 less legs and drakes are basically wingless dragons, wyrms are snake like dragons.
Chromatic:
1st group of 5 true main: Red, Blue, Green, Black, White
2nd group of 5 true main: Purple, Orange, Grey, Yellow, Brown
Purple ( two kinds. The Middle Underdark ones from 3e/ 4 e and Lloyds presumabye Upper Underdark purple that burrow into the surface at night to hunt prey on open fields and small towns etc. Could be renamed Umber/ Violet etc. All 3 have energy to plasmatic breath and share intrigue, knowledge hoarders )
Orange ( live in jungles, in feuds with Greens and Blacks due to territory overlap sometimes. Spew sodium choloride that combust prey in flames in air. In water it explodes them )
Grey ( mercenary like dragons, purely physical attacks, ditch acid bite )
Yellow ( the first Lloyd iteration, WINGED ( or else NOT a dragon! ) and NOT sand dwelling like in later 2e edition/ those should be retconned as beige dragons, spew sodium concentrated water to blind prey, are the smallest, fastest though not neccesarily the weakest )
Brown ( sand, desert dragons. Have modified wings to better " swim " thorugh sand and have head to crush, burrow through hard rock, fewds with Blue dragons fro territory )
Gemstone:
1st group of 5 true main: Amethyst ( royal, sharp purple) , Sapphire ( deep blue ), Emerald ( fresh green ), Topaz ( orange with yellow tint ), Crystal ( clear, shiny white to dirty brown )
2nd group of 5 true main: Diamond (my idea not official ), Obsidian ( cast out by the above 5 Gem dragon Thanes of Sardior ) , Ruby ( direct offspring of Sardior ), Citrine ( shiny yellow ), Opal ( many coloroed, if not prismatic, contain every colors set in different patterns )
Metallic:
1st group of 5 true main: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, Brass ( Brass should be retconned to spew poison, thye say posion is " evil ", then what about acid? Depends on usage I say )
2nd group of 5 true main: Orium, Mithral, Adamantine, Tin, Zinc. Last two my ideas becasue to get bronze and brass by mixing Copper + tin/ zinc ) Dosent have to be interbreeding, just stating cohesivness and that Bahamut, like Tiamat can just spawn those kind of dragons even though in real life sense those colors and metals would be products of mixing,
Examples of Miscellanious/ cousin dragons, not aligned/ neutral. NOT including Ferrous, elemental dragons, cataclysmic ones etc
Chromatic: Deep dragon ( cousin, NOT purple! live in Lower Underdark )
Gemstone: Jade
Metallic: Steel
So, are they going to take Feats and Magic items off of the Optional list?
Feats yes. The magical items might still be optional. It's not full fourth edition calculated in.
I wonder if many campaign specific monsters will make the cut. Play through ToA, get new and improved grungs that better match new expectations.
What exactly is a vampire spawn, if not a person in the process of becoming a vampire?
Not gonna lie, all of this sounds great. Funnily enough the biggest draw for me is finally getting access to the cartoon characters (I wonder if they'll stay true to canon and keep Diana a Rogue or retcon her to how she was in the show, which is a Monk). I am actually asking my group if we'll update to this edition, stay on 5E, or use this opportunity to try out another system. But at least if we do decide to update I won't hate it as much. But I'm definitely buying physical copies. I don't want WotC (ie Hasbro) to be able to hold my D&D library hostage at will.
Hey, do we know what those 3 new subclasses are? They recently confirmed the Brawler is not gonna make it, and I can only remember 2 other new subclasses from the playtest (world tree barbarian and dance bard).
Circle of the Sea Druid
@@TreantmonksTemple cant believe I forgot about the sea druid! I was really excited for it too! Thanks
Athas wasnt mentioned :(
Considering ultra-high magic is deeply baked into the rules of 5e, I think it just wouldn’t be a great, easy fit. Not to mention the sensitive topics in Dark Sun they probably don’t want to bother with.