At the same time, the rigid "roll to see if you can't see something" is sort of illustrating how it's not always the best approach to exploration NPC interaction, thankfully not a problem at the table since the DM can adjust. Really into even regular weapons having special abilities, sort of wish they were available more frequently, especially for longer battles Would be cool if you could go into detail about your camping supply house rules. Has me thinking of different types, and maybe if you fall just short you could still rest but you'd have minuses or have an ability frozen until you rest again sort of thing to add texture
Agree with all these points. A few changes I LOVE is that Dragonborns can be customized in a way as a mix of PHB and Fizban. However!! Theres no official Larian made Gem dragonborn sub-races yet.. ( Nexus mod have though! + other nifty d.b ones ). Still, neither WotC or Larian have updated the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer with the 5 gem dragon ancestries! Also hope they add the 2x racial feats for each main race from Xanathar source book. For Dragonborn, the Dragon Hide and Dragon Fear are great feats that Imo should be baked in racials along with darkvision and choose either 15ft cone or 30ft line with a breath weapon scaling with prof.mod and do 1d10 dmg at lvl 1, 2d10 at lvl 5 etc. Regarding bare bones weapon attacks etc?? My guess is that after 4e, WotC got spooked by the backlash with Hasbro, whip in hand saying: " listen to the fanmob now or else the profit will fumble! " I dont think the unique weapon attacks take away from Battlemaster, but compliments it
Larian made a great game and a better 5e. One of my favorites is throwing healing potions at allies like healing bombs. WOTC lacks direction. They were throwing ideas against a wall to see what sticks at the same time being afraid to make big changes with the playtest materials.
DnD is like junk food. Plus it has such a large player base that it's easy to get it played. It's nowhere near the best fantasy ttrpg ruleset. However, that hasn't affected it's popularity. WotC will do more damage to the brand with their sleazy business practices than the rules could ever do!
It's not so much a lack of direction, but a hard turn in direction after the nOGL blew up in their faces. Before that their design goal was: "How much can we change while still (hardly convincingly) claiming full compatibility with 5e material, so people don't stop buying stuff in the meantime?" After that it has become: "How little can we change while still convincing people who have the 2014 core books that the 2024 core books are worth buying?" The runaway success of BG3 seems to have solidified this stance, so as to provide what new potential players coming in through the video game expect D&D to be. Ironically, their actual reaction should be a hard turn back to the previous direction, as BG3 running on current D&D is cutting the 3D VTT they're betting on off at the knees.
WotC is alredy backtracking on HIGHLY approved One D&D playtest suggestions from fans and rven their own actual great to decent ideas! I liked the class groupings f.ex and the first Ranger updates, now its bland again and gutted! Wtf , wotc you dtunk? Or afraid there would be so many new awesome changes that 5e should be 5.5e/ 6e? They refuse to call it that 😑
LOL! Wolf got it right earlier in the video. Go figure. Even with scripts and notes we still roll a critical fail on our performance checks! Thanks for watching.
when you said about playtesting, a really good way that i found was to have a few "default" characters, like a pure strait class wizard with a defaulted spell selection, then you have an entire party of these, and every time you want to test a character option, you put them with the party of defaults through a simulation, to see how they fair so far it helped me balance a ttrpg project that i scrapped, i may revive it tho... i will see.
At the same time, the rigid "roll to see if you can't see something" is sort of illustrating how it's not always the best approach to exploration NPC interaction, thankfully not a problem at the table since the DM can adjust. Really into even regular weapons having special abilities, sort of wish they were available more frequently, especially for longer battles
Would be cool if you could go into detail about your camping supply house rules. Has me thinking of different types, and maybe if you fall just short you could still rest but you'd have minuses or have an ability frozen until you rest again sort of thing to add texture
Thank for this insightful video!
Agree with all these points. A few changes I LOVE is that Dragonborns can be customized in a way as a mix of PHB and Fizban. However!! Theres no official Larian made Gem dragonborn sub-races yet.. ( Nexus mod have though! + other nifty d.b ones ). Still, neither WotC or Larian have updated the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer with the 5 gem dragon ancestries! Also hope they add the 2x racial feats for each main race from Xanathar source book. For Dragonborn, the Dragon Hide and Dragon Fear are great feats that Imo should be baked in racials along with darkvision and choose either 15ft cone or 30ft line with a breath weapon scaling with prof.mod and do 1d10 dmg at lvl 1, 2d10 at lvl 5 etc. Regarding bare bones weapon attacks etc?? My guess is that after 4e, WotC got spooked by the backlash with Hasbro, whip in hand saying: " listen to the fanmob now or else the profit will fumble! "
I dont think the unique weapon attacks take away from Battlemaster, but compliments it
Larian made a great game and a better 5e.
One of my favorites is throwing healing potions at allies like healing bombs.
WOTC lacks direction. They were throwing ideas against a wall to see what sticks at the same time being afraid to make big changes with the playtest materials.
You have a lot of game better than D&D, but people stay in D&D, I don’t know why.
DnD is like junk food. Plus it has such a large player base that it's easy to get it played. It's nowhere near the best fantasy ttrpg ruleset. However, that hasn't affected it's popularity. WotC will do more damage to the brand with their sleazy business practices than the rules could ever do!
It's not so much a lack of direction, but a hard turn in direction after the nOGL blew up in their faces. Before that their design goal was: "How much can we change while still (hardly convincingly) claiming full compatibility with 5e material, so people don't stop buying stuff in the meantime?" After that it has become: "How little can we change while still convincing people who have the 2014 core books that the 2024 core books are worth buying?"
The runaway success of BG3 seems to have solidified this stance, so as to provide what new potential players coming in through the video game expect D&D to be.
Ironically, their actual reaction should be a hard turn back to the previous direction, as BG3 running on current D&D is cutting the 3D VTT they're betting on off at the knees.
WotC is alredy backtracking on HIGHLY approved One D&D playtest suggestions from fans and rven their own actual great to decent ideas! I liked the class groupings f.ex and the first Ranger updates, now its bland again and gutted! Wtf , wotc you dtunk? Or afraid there would be so many new awesome changes that 5e should be 5.5e/ 6e? They refuse to call it that 😑
I would think a hamstring shot would aim for the freaking "HAMSTRING"!!!!
And because of BG 3, I am never playing Pathfinder anymore.
good video lets see what mods can do too!
10:24 Almost ten years, not five. 😉
LOL! Wolf got it right earlier in the video. Go figure. Even with scripts and notes we still roll a critical fail on our performance checks! Thanks for watching.
when you said about playtesting, a really good way that i found was to have a few "default" characters, like a pure strait class wizard with a defaulted spell selection, then you have an entire party of these, and every time you want to test a character option, you put them with the party of defaults through a simulation, to see how they fair
so far it helped me balance a ttrpg project that i scrapped, i may revive it tho... i will see.
First! Hate that it's 150 GBs