I am trying to create a new character using the new rules for 5.5.
I am trying to create a barbarian using the "Path of the Zealot" from Xanathar's Guide to Everything. I do have the book and I can see the other optional paths like "Path of the Storm Herald Features" and "Path of the Ancestral Guardian Features". I can even see the other paths from Tasha's book. Only this one path I want to use is not available for selection. Can somone help?
Path of the Zealot exists in the new edition of PHB.
If an existing class has been updated in the new edition they do not allow you to make a new 2024 class and add your previous purchased consent.
If you want to use your existing purchase you have to use the old 2014 “legacy” character or homebrew it as a subclass for 2024
yeah sort of not really backwards compatible, or compatible on paper and yeah you can run a game with either characters, but they really want you to purchase the content again - engineered so you pay twice
Well, that makes sense. It is a shame I have to buy the new PHB to use a class I already have. Thanks anyway.
You don't need to buy anything to use the XGtE version of that subclass on a 2014 character. You do have to buy the new book to use it on a 2024 character, because that's where the new version of the subclass is. (The new version is different in some ways.)
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I am trying to create a new character using the new rules for 5.5.
I am trying to create a barbarian using the "Path of the Zealot" from Xanathar's Guide to Everything. I do have the book and I can see the other optional paths like "Path of the Storm Herald Features" and "Path of the Ancestral Guardian Features". I can even see the other paths from Tasha's book. Only this one path I want to use is not available for selection. Can somone help?
I tried on chrome and edge.
Path of the Zealot exists in the new edition of PHB.
If an existing class has been updated in the new edition they do not allow you to make a new 2024 class and add your previous purchased consent.
If you want to use your existing purchase you have to use the old 2014 “legacy” character or homebrew it as a subclass for 2024
yeah sort of not really backwards compatible, or compatible on paper and yeah you can run a game with either characters, but they really want you to purchase the content again - engineered so you pay twice
Well, that makes sense. It is a shame I have to buy the new PHB to use a class I already have. Thanks anyway.
You don't need to buy anything to use the XGtE version of that subclass on a 2014 character. You do have to buy the new book to use it on a 2024 character, because that's where the new version of the subclass is. (The new version is different in some ways.)
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