One D&D

[mlooney 3,073]

The latest One D&D has dropped.  This covers Druids and Paladins.  Sorta nurfed druids wild shape.  Removed the "Roll a 1 get Heroic Inspiration" rule and returned it to DM's call.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/one-dnd

 

[The Old Hack 2,386]

[mlooney 3,073]

As it stands now One D&D isn't a license just yet. 

[The Old Hack 2,386]

As it stands now WotC managed to drive a lot of customers off to competitors. I am certainly not going back to them after this demonstration.

There is an interesting tumblr thread about large corporations burning customers one time too many. I recommend it.

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/708591879795736576/thymewayster-really-good-twitter-thread

[mlooney 3,073]

3 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

As it stands now WotC managed to drive a lot of customers off to competitors.  . I am certainly not going back to them after this demonstration

Problem I have with that is my gaming group plays D&D, not Pathfinder or any other type of game. Another reason for sticking with D&D 5e is that one of our players is math challenged.  She has trouble with the limited amounts of math in 5e.  No way she would be able to play "Mathfinder" 

I'm holding off on swearing off of WotC until I see what the 2024 books are like and how they do the SRD for them. It wouldn't take much for me to drop then granted

[The Old Hack 2,386]

On 2/26/2023 at 10:12 PM, mlooney said:

Problem I have with that is my gaming group plays D&D, not Pathfinder or any other type of game. Another reason for sticking with D&D 5e is that one of our players is math challenged.  She has trouble with the limited amounts of math in 5e.  No way she would be able to play "Mathfinder" 

I'm holding off on swearing off of WotC until I see what the 2024 books are like and how they do the SRD for them. It wouldn't take much for me to drop then granted

I absolutely respect that. Your reasons are valid. I am more fortunate in that I am less tied to game systems.

[mlooney 3,073]

If given a choice I'd be playing Traveller, which we may change to at some point 

[Darth Fluffy 259]

On 2/26/2023 at 0:47 PM, The Old Hack said:

As it stands now WotC managed to drive a lot of customers off to competitors. I am certainly not going back to them after this demonstration.

There is an interesting tumblr thread about large corporations burning customers one time too many. I recommend it.

https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/708591879795736576/thymewayster-really-good-twitter-thread

Blizzard did that to me, about six or seven years ago.

I had to add this after I read that article. The thermocline is a great analogy.

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[mlooney 3,073]

Back to the original post, I just re-read the drop and they more then slightly nurfed wild shape.  They made it where it's close to useless, at least as far as it's current use goes.  Among other things, it's not a big bag of hit points that the druid can access for combat, but uses the druid's hit points.  The guy I know that plays a druid is going to be upset about that.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,520]

Is Coyote an available Druid type?

They seem to have unlimited hit points.

 

[mlooney 3,073]

4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Is Coyote an available Druid type?

They seem to have unlimited hit points.

 

No, not so much. 

[mlooney 3,073]

The latest drop of the One D&D play test material has happen.  This covers Fighters, Barbarians, Sorcerers , Warlocks, and Wizards. As of now every class other than Monks has a test version. Added 11 new spells and some important changes in weapon uses by warrior class characters.  A weapon now has a "Mastery property, a special property that requires a feature to unlock."  Fighter start off with 3 mastery slots, barbarians with 2 and you can get one with a 4th level feat.  Warlocks have "normal" spell slots not the limited number of slots they used to have.  Still top out at 5th level, and any thing beyond that takes "Mystic Arcanum" to get spells of higher levels.  Warlocks seem to have had the most changes, but all the classes have major changes to them.  Hopefully I'll be able to get my group to play with the play test stuff soon.  No rules for Pinkerton agents however.  That might be in the next set of MtG cards, not in D&D, where we should get a "copyright and trademark lawyer" class.

[The Old Hack 2,386]

On 4/27/2023 at 7:11 PM, mlooney said:

not in D&D, where we should get a "copyright and trademark lawyer" class.

Seems to me that Wizards and Hasbro themselves could benefit from a "how to not s*** ourselves in public advisor" class.

[mlooney 3,073]

Yeah that would be a good idea.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,520]

There are not enough people on Earth to act as experts in that field for the benifit of everyone else who needs them.

 

[mlooney 3,073]

On 5/5/2023 at 9:22 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

There are not enough people on Earth to act as experts in that field for the benifit of everyone else who needs them.

 

Yeah, your average "life coach" doesn't have the skills to tell their clients to not crap themselves in public.