Because of the recent survey, I am expecting more optional rules.
Man I am not sure we are ready for that so soon after Tasha's....we are barely seeing how those play out and adding more would not be my jam right now.
Maybe not right now, but I remember a similar survey coming out before Tasha’s, so it will most likely be happening eventually.
Instead of more optional features, I wouldnt mind a UA trying out more variant features for subclasses that have been poorly received since they were released (Battlerager, PDK, 4EM, etc) as opposed to overarching features which apply to classes as a whole.
Because of the recent survey, I am expecting more optional rules.
Man I am not sure we are ready for that so soon after Tasha's....we are barely seeing how those play out and adding more would not be my jam right now.
Maybe not right now, but I remember a similar survey coming out before Tasha’s, so it will most likely be happening eventually.
Instead of more optional features, I wouldnt mind a UA trying out more variant features for subclasses that have been poorly received since they were released (Battlerager, PDK, 4EM, etc) as opposed to overarching features which apply to classes as a whole.
I wouldn't mind actual Variant Features as apposed to Additional Features which is what we really got from Tasha's
Because of the recent survey, I am expecting more optional rules.
Man I am not sure we are ready for that so soon after Tasha's....we are barely seeing how those play out and adding more would not be my jam right now.
Maybe not right now, but I remember a similar survey coming out before Tasha’s, so it will most likely be happening eventually.
Instead of more optional features, I wouldnt mind a UA trying out more variant features for subclasses that have been poorly received since they were released (Battlerager, PDK, 4EM, etc) as opposed to overarching features which apply to classes as a whole.
Indeed, give the poor kuldjargh a little love. I always loved that subclass.
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I just flipped a table having realized a month after the fact that if Wizards ever does produce a UA Path of the Dragon Barbarian with DRAGONRAGE, I'm going to have to homebrew it into DDB.
And, now I also need a new table, son of a...
Don't worry Midnight. Maybe WotC will get around to it when they publish So-And-So's Whatchamahoozit Of Something, Something...
Come to think of it, it seems like the vast majority (if not all UA) is targeted at playtesting player options (or things that could be used by both the player and DM): subclasses, spells, feats, etc.
I am wondering, if WotC were to try and release a set of playtest material specific to the DM side what that would look like
Monster stats? Optional variant rules? Encounters that would eventually be baked into a full dungeon?
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Come to think of it, it seems like the vast majority (if not all UA) is targeted at playtesting player options (or things that could be used by both the player and DM): subclasses, spells, feats, etc.
I am wondering, if WotC were to try and release a set of playtest material specific to the DM side what that would look like
Monster stats? Optional variant rules? Encounters that would eventually be baked into a full dungeon?
They did this at least once with exploration stuff:
Come to think of it, it seems like the vast majority (if not all UA) is targeted at playtesting player options (or things that could be used by both the player and DM): subclasses, spells, feats, etc.
I am wondering, if WotC were to try and release a set of playtest material specific to the DM side what that would look like
Monster stats? Optional variant rules? Encounters that would eventually be baked into a full dungeon?
this is probably because 1) most supplements are pretty player-focused and 2) a broken subclass or spell can break the game more than a broken magic item or monster, since monsters and magic items are generally less exact anyways. A broken magic item can always be stolen or destroyed, and a underpowered or overpowered monster for it's CR will at most ruin a single encounter.
The most we will get from the DM side is probably variant rules like Mass Combat from one of the first UA articles, greyhawk initiative and players make all rolls (those two are also pretty early UA articles).
I don't think that they would ever have a public playtest for such things as modules and what not
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Come to think of it, it seems like the vast majority (if not all UA) is targeted at playtesting player options (or things that could be used by both the player and DM): subclasses, spells, feats, etc.
I am wondering, if WotC were to try and release a set of playtest material specific to the DM side what that would look like
Monster stats? Optional variant rules? Encounters that would eventually be baked into a full dungeon?
this is probably because 1) most supplements are pretty player-focused and 2) a broken subclass or spell can break the game more than a broken magic item or monster, since monsters and magic items are generally less exact anyways. A broken magic item can always be stolen or destroyed, and a underpowered or overpowered monster for it's CR will at most ruin a single encounter.
The most we will get from the DM side is probably variant rules like Mass Combat from one of the first UA articles, greyhawk initiative and players make all rolls (those two are also pretty early UA articles).
I don't think that they would ever have a public playtest for such things as modules and what not
It was a very bad interpretation of 2nd edition initiative. And I loathed it when I read it, and I played 2nd more than any other edition.
I'd like to see something before the end of the year. With all the new hardcovers going to publishing soon, I would imagine they are done balancing the other UA and should be looking towards next year's books at this point.
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I am thinking that we won't see anything new till they are ready to announce the next book(s) out of fear of spoiling the hype of the stuff being released over the next few weeks. What ever the next UA has will likely tell us what the next setting will be.
I am thinking that we won't see anything new till they are ready to announce the next book(s) out of fear of spoiling the hype of the stuff being released over the next few weeks. What ever the next UA has will likely tell us what the next setting will be.
Or the next other book. We could get more Fey stuff. Or something else entirely like Fizban’s.
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I am thinking that we won't see anything new till they are ready to announce the next book(s) out of fear of spoiling the hype of the stuff being released over the next few weeks. What ever the next UA has will likely tell us what the next setting will be.
Or the next other book. We could get more Fey stuff. Or something else entirely like Fizban’s.
Will it? When we got the Minotaurs and Seafarers stuff, everyone expected Greyhawk but it ended up being the first Ravnica UA. Strixhaven's Aven lineage was in the "Folk of the Feywild" UA. Even the College of Swords Bard was in a misleading UA.
I don't expect the next UA to come out until after Strixhaven: The Curriculum of Chaos comes out. That's when they'd start playtesting options for next year's books, probably. We're definitely not getting any playtest options for Fizban's or Strixhaven, so we're going to have to wait awhile until the next UA comes out.
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Yeah, new UA wouldn't be for any of the announced books, and I don't know if they want to put UA out there to distract from the hype cycle of the fall trifecta, so I'm thinking after Fizban's (which I feel out of the three would presumably be the biggest seller).
Or [conspiracy theory] maybe the next UA will in fact be 6e, and the reason why DDB isn't hosting UA anymore is because it's not clear Wizards is keeping the relationship with them [/conspiracy theory]. I don't really believe that, but I'll float it because it's Friday and maybe it'll turn the rumor mill into a GenCon weekend dynamo.
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Or [conspiracy theory] maybe the next UA will in fact be 6e, and the reason why DDB isn't hosting UA anymore is because it's not clear Wizards is keeping the relationship with them [/conspiracy theory]. I don't really believe that, but I'll float it because it's Friday and maybe it'll turn the rumor mill into a GenCon weekend dynamo.
The collective loss of bananas would be so monumental that the impact to the commodities market would destabilize the global economy, and the ecological impact to the banana producing nations of the world would be so devistating that it might lead to the kinds of political upheaval that changes maps forever.
Or [conspiracy theory] maybe the next UA will in fact be 6e, and the reason why DDB isn't hosting UA anymore is because it's not clear Wizards is keeping the relationship with them [/conspiracy theory]. I don't really believe that, but I'll float it because it's Friday and maybe it'll turn the rumor mill into a GenCon weekend dynamo.
The collective loss of bananas would be so monumental that the impact to the commodities market would destabilize the global economy, and ecological impact to the banana producing nations of the world would would be so devistating that it might lead to the kinds of political upheaval that changes maps forever.
That's why I don't think there will be a true 6e for awhile. WotC is not eager to initiate another Edition War (heh. I didn't even notice this pun while writing it). They learned from their last blunder that ended up with them losing the seat for the "World's Best Roleplaying Game" (back when Pathfinder was outselling D&D 4e).
A soft reboot, maybe some massive erratas to the PHB, or a 10 Year Anniversary Edition reprint of the Core Rulebooks with updates akin to how TCoE does thing? Sure. That's fairly plausible. I could even see a 5.5e in name coming out relatively soon. But a whole new 6e? Nah. Not anytime within the next decade, unless WotC somehow manages to bungle things so badly that it's necessary. And that doesn't seem likely, due to the fact that D&D is getting more popular every day, even with the massively controversial things they've done recently (TCoE, making massive changes to the Ravenloft setting, more or less dropping alignment, leaning hard into Magic: the Gathering settings for book ideas, etc).
WotC is doing fine. D&D is selling more than ever. So long as that continues, 6e won't come. Kinda like "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", but "a profit today keeps the next edition away".
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I wouldn't mind actual Variant Features as apposed to Additional Features which is what we really got from Tasha's
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Indeed, give the poor kuldjargh a little love. I always loved that subclass.
Where did the UA Fairy race go?
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I just flipped a table having realized a month after the fact that if Wizards ever does produce a UA Path of the Dragon Barbarian with DRAGONRAGE, I'm going to have to homebrew it into DDB.
And, now I also need a new table, son of a...
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Don't worry Midnight. Maybe WotC will get around to it when they publish So-And-So's Whatchamahoozit Of Something, Something...
Come to think of it, it seems like the vast majority (if not all UA) is targeted at playtesting player options (or things that could be used by both the player and DM): subclasses, spells, feats, etc.
I am wondering, if WotC were to try and release a set of playtest material specific to the DM side what that would look like
Monster stats? Optional variant rules? Encounters that would eventually be baked into a full dungeon?
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They did this at least once with exploration stuff:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_IntoTheWild.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiQ35a-kvLyAhWOMd8KHdCnBpkQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3PaeN1hjF_8j8vGpjVT0dM
this is probably because 1) most supplements are pretty player-focused and 2) a broken subclass or spell can break the game more than a broken magic item or monster, since monsters and magic items are generally less exact anyways. A broken magic item can always be stolen or destroyed, and a underpowered or overpowered monster for it's CR will at most ruin a single encounter.
The most we will get from the DM side is probably variant rules like Mass Combat from one of the first UA articles, greyhawk initiative and players make all rolls (those two are also pretty early UA articles).
I don't think that they would ever have a public playtest for such things as modules and what not
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It was a very bad interpretation of 2nd edition initiative. And I loathed it when I read it, and I played 2nd more than any other edition.
Are we thinking no new UA till the rush of hardcovers is done or you think we'll see stuff before end of the year?
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I'd like to see something before the end of the year. With all the new hardcovers going to publishing soon, I would imagine they are done balancing the other UA and should be looking towards next year's books at this point.
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I am thinking that we won't see anything new till they are ready to announce the next book(s) out of fear of spoiling the hype of the stuff being released over the next few weeks. What ever the next UA has will likely tell us what the next setting will be.
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Or the next other book. We could get more Fey stuff. Or something else entirely like Fizban’s.
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Will it? When we got the Minotaurs and Seafarers stuff, everyone expected Greyhawk but it ended up being the first Ravnica UA. Strixhaven's Aven lineage was in the "Folk of the Feywild" UA. Even the College of Swords Bard was in a misleading UA.
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I don't expect the next UA to come out until after Strixhaven: The Curriculum of Chaos comes out. That's when they'd start playtesting options for next year's books, probably. We're definitely not getting any playtest options for Fizban's or Strixhaven, so we're going to have to wait awhile until the next UA comes out.
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Yeah, new UA wouldn't be for any of the announced books, and I don't know if they want to put UA out there to distract from the hype cycle of the fall trifecta, so I'm thinking after Fizban's (which I feel out of the three would presumably be the biggest seller).
Or [conspiracy theory] maybe the next UA will in fact be 6e, and the reason why DDB isn't hosting UA anymore is because it's not clear Wizards is keeping the relationship with them [/conspiracy theory]. I don't really believe that, but I'll float it because it's Friday and maybe it'll turn the rumor mill into a GenCon weekend dynamo.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
The collective loss of bananas would be so monumental that the impact to the commodities market would destabilize the global economy, and the ecological impact to the banana producing nations of the world would be so devistating that it might lead to the kinds of political upheaval that changes maps forever.
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That's why I don't think there will be a true 6e for awhile. WotC is not eager to initiate another Edition War (heh. I didn't even notice this pun while writing it). They learned from their last blunder that ended up with them losing the seat for the "World's Best Roleplaying Game" (back when Pathfinder was outselling D&D 4e).
A soft reboot, maybe some massive erratas to the PHB, or a 10 Year Anniversary Edition reprint of the Core Rulebooks with updates akin to how TCoE does thing? Sure. That's fairly plausible. I could even see a 5.5e in name coming out relatively soon. But a whole new 6e? Nah. Not anytime within the next decade, unless WotC somehow manages to bungle things so badly that it's necessary. And that doesn't seem likely, due to the fact that D&D is getting more popular every day, even with the massively controversial things they've done recently (TCoE, making massive changes to the Ravenloft setting, more or less dropping alignment, leaning hard into Magic: the Gathering settings for book ideas, etc).
WotC is doing fine. D&D is selling more than ever. So long as that continues, 6e won't come. Kinda like "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", but "a profit today keeps the next edition away".
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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