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Wish it was “ancestry” not “species” because then in character creation you’d have the ABCs, Ancestry, Background, & Class

The Dragonborn breath weapon difference from Fizbans that they also added here is: Before, it was an entire action to use breath weapon Now, you use a breath weapon instead of an attack, so if you have extra attack you can still attack after using a breath weapon

"resting during the day" and "skipping a long rest to reset yourself" sounds like depression insomnia, very relatable, good job WotC

I think I remember hearing that Tolkin used the word race because it sounded more aesthetically correct than species for the nature of the work. I kinda agree as species does sound to sff. I think Pathfinder 2nd uses ancestry, which I think sounds better for the fantasy aesthetic.

Correction: Spirit Guardians always have been concentration. Spiritual WEAPON was not, and in One DnD will be

As the internet's resident Goliath Cleric, I approve of this UA.

Just to clarify the Ardling Runner: the Dash action no longer doubles your speed, instead giving you a second move action. So at 2 proficiency bonus, you'd have 30ft for your first move and 30ft + 20ft for your second move.

Ceratops dinos had skeletal structures similar to modern herd animals, like bison, so yes, they were probably pretty fast runners.

The big thing about the old dragonborn was that the breath weapon was an action rather than an attack that worked with extra attack. This version of dragonborn make good martials now, which fit many people's fantasy.

The issue with Scholar and using the Wisdom bonus for the skill is, a 1st level Cleric will likely already have a number of those skills. So either a player who wants to take scholar at level 2 needs to intentionally not take those skills at level 1 (which seem clunky and counter to Crawford's talk about making things easy on new players), or they need to change Scholar to let you assign that bonus to already known skills.

For the Dash for Racer Ardlings - it does say "your Speed increases for that Action" - which makes me think it only applies to the movement of the dash action specifically. But definitely needs some clearer wording there.

They already have Custom Lineage, so i think they should just call it Lineage

Honestly, they could've just said you can't long rest again for at least 12 hours and gotten what I assume is the desired effect. Helps cut down in 5-minute adventuring day shenanigans, but allows characters to go to bed early if they're really tired (ie used up most of their spells, features, and such). And it keeps weird delays like you're describing from piling up.

Personally I liked the different walk speeds, made me appreciate the ideas that walk pace differs and never saw one less square as much of a disadvantage as long as they had another minor benefit to them, so it evens out

If I wake up and engage in combat and hiking for 10+ hours, burning 5k+ calories, I could certainly fall asleep after just 12 hours awake. I'll always structure long rests around what makes sense to me, as opposed to using such a rigid written formula (which feels more like one of their dialed in rules to balance competitive games)

I love the new Goliath! That's such a genius idea to have them have origins related to the various giants. Not sure if these are balanced necessarily, but I like this idea.

Tiny addendum - 15:43 Should be referring to Spiritual Weapon, instead of Spirit Guardians. Great video! I'm stoked to play a Cloud Giant Goliath.

I’m guessing wizards are going to get something very similar to the Cleric’s Holy order, but you choose a school of magic that your wizard specializes in. Hopefully to make up for only getting four subclasses, instead of the usual eight that are in the 5e PHB. I would call it something like Arcane Elective or chosen study. 🧙🏽‍♂️

Spiritual weapon was changed to have concentration. Spirit guardians always had conscentration

It really does look like everyone's getting subclasses at the same levels, which is a great idea if only because you can now make cross-class subclasses, or at least class-group restricted subclasses. Like, instead of having a fiendish bloodline for sorcerers and a fiendish patron for warlocks, just have a fiendish subclass for the Mages class group (with wizards taking it being demonologists or something). The Fighter's Battle Master archetype would be a really fun option for Monk or even Rogue.

I still prefer 'Ancestry' over 'Species'.

I personally really like the idea of varied movement even if i am slower

I really appreciate your enthusiasm and passion for DnD and One DnD :)

As a long term fan of playing Cleric, I absolutely love the changes that came out of this one. Turn Undead has felt quite useless in my experience, so doing straight damage rather than being based on CR is really quite useful without being broken. The fighting style esc. thing is also really neat, since clerics have always been kind of a Support, Tank, and Offensive class and now you have to pick which one to spec into first and that makes much more sense to me. Overall I think WotC nailed this one.

I don’t think Bob mentioned it, but Channel Divinity also changed to PB times per long rest! THAT’S A LOT OF CHANNEL DIVINITY

I think they're presenting the Triceratops as a kind of "dino-rhino", so charging is thematic and possibly accurate.

Sincerely, I didn't even knew there was a time limit where you couldn't take a long rest after the last one. It just seems so silly! And if people are abusing long rests somehow, the problem isn't in the long rest, but in these people.

Channel Divinity at level 1 is fantastic. I can't tell you how many new players I've DM'd for that didn't understand how central the ability was for the Cleric Class because it wasn't something that they had from the start (like Sneak Attack, for example)

i think speed is something cool to play with, but like you said it's better to make some players feel fast than it is to make others feel slow. i like the goliath change

Was amused spotting your comment on the WotC video when watching it. Always enjoy your summations of this content - solid reviews and opinions without being blind to flaws or apoplectic that they dare change anything.

Thank you so much for going over these new changes and additions. It's incredibly helpful, and how you express your own feelings on each part is further engaging and gets me excited to try these out as well. So thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share the information in fun, manageable segments. :)

The 5e long rest limits long resting to once per 24 hours, so the 16 hour thing is trying to word it in a more clear way. Probably makes more sense for it to be 24 hours after the start of the previous long rest, instead of 16 hours after the end of the previous long rest, tho

On the last bit, about the required time of 16 hours between each long rest. I can understand and appreciate the need to have such an established ruling, so players can't just "spam" long rests for some purpose that seems game-breaking. On the other hand, I usually find that taking a long rest at all is often a gamble. Maybe it's just the way my brother runs the game, but we are usually encouraged to just try to plow through events and locations, without a rest. A short rest may eventually be in view if we're at the brink of death, and out of spell slots. If we take a long rest, that's an extra 8 hours the enemy have to follow through with their evil plans, or for us to get ambushed, or those kidnapped civilians get sacrificed but we were too busy sleeping!

The Dash Action has no impact on your speed, it instead adds extra movement based on your speed. So if you have a speed of 30, the extra movement gained by your Dash would be 50 ft at level 1 for a Runner Ardling. So your total available movement for that turn is 80 ft. This feature will synergize really well with rogues and monks who can take the dash action as a bonus action.

If you look at truesight the description suggests that illusions are being changed to use saving throws.

Bob, I really appreciate the positivity in this video. And also the great information.

Since the speed bonus is only added when the Dash action is taken, it would be a total of 80 ft at first level.

What you missed about the Dragon Breath Weapon was that it's back to being part of the Attack action, not once per turn. I didn't catch it because you only read the second column. But that's okay!

All that weirdness with Long rest tracks pretty closely with my real world experiences with sleep schedules. Joking aside, the other changes with Long Rest are pretty great as they give sort of a balancing mechanic to rest casting so that casters aren't just cheesing interpretation of RAW to gain a free casting of Mage Armor, but gaining a few spell effects at the expense of having a somewhat longer rest time.

I feel that since they’ve already given the Ardling features based on their animal characteristics, they might as well: replace the divine magic ability with proficiencies in any two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival Rename the Ardling to Beastfolk, or possibly keep it as “Beastfolk” may be regarded as an offensive term Bring back the Aasimar and give them the og Ardling lineages, while allowing them the choice between being half-animal or humanoid angels This way, people can play strictly animal-like characters, and humanoid angelic or angelic-animal characters While they’re at it, they can create a Fallen Lineage for Aasimars (with chill touch, inflict wounds, and the like) and an Ascended Lineage for Tieflings (basically the “good” Tieflings who have access to sacred flame and healing spells)

Dashing in the same doc says "You take a bonus move". Move says "you go a distance equal to your speed or less". So if you increase your speed by 20ft when you take the dash action, youll benefit from that twice within the turn. So a dashing level 3 racer ardling could move 100ft.

The way I understand it, the Dash action lets you move your speed again. So for your movement for your turn you move 30ft, then you Dash 50ft, for a total of 80ft moved in one turn.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that all the Goliath lineage options are based on attack rolls, meaning they work with Eldritch Blast as it is. If Eldritch Blast stays the same then Frost's Chill, even with its' prof. bonus per long rest limits, will be insane for its' movement speed slow. You can basically have your cake and eat it too by using Agonizing Blast, but also reducing their speed by 10 which is functionally very similar to knocking them back 10 feet. For a fun punting build, create a Dao Genie patron Warlock with Frost Giant lineage and take the Crusher feat as your first level feat (if that's not possible, take it later). You can push enemies 5 feet per Eldritch Blast due to Crusher + Dao Genie's Bludgeoning damage and slow them down by 10 feet. Knockback can increase to 15 feet if you use Repelling Blast, which is high enough to cause falling damage. Also Cloud Giant's ability is incredibly strong. It is a way better Misty Step and might honestly be too strong on casters since it isn't a leveled spell and thus you can cast a leveled spell after using it as your bonus action.

As someone who might have time to play D&D bi-weekly, but has been playing for 18 years and cares about the RPG, these videos are gold. Thank you Bob.

The way Daze is phrased, plus the undead cleric mechanic. It means that if you take an action, you cannot move. As an undead you can only take the dash action allowing you to move. So you can only move your speed as an undead. It is really powerful. It also cuts down their speed. They cannot move and dash. They can only either move normally or dash not move and dash normally.

One thing I think sounds amazing is under Draconic Flight "Your wings appear to be made of the energy used by your Breath Weapon." Mentally, the imagery for this is so cool.

Just pointing this out. The Dash action has been revamped. Your speed doesn't double when using it anymore. Instead, you gain a second Move. Meaning, if each move can only use one movement type at a time if you have more than one. A Dash is a separate movement altogether. As an example, at 1st level, your speed is still 30 feet by default. But when you Dash, you can move 50 feet on top of that. By 17th level, if you use your normal Move and then Dash, you can move up to 150 feet in a single turn, which is bonkers.

i really like the Holy Order thing, makes it optional to be proficient in Martial Weapons and Heavy Armor as cleric. so many 5e cleric subclasses having those proficiencies would just be wasted on the character idea i had in my head. im glad there are some choices now

this document was smaller, it doesn't contain all Priest Classes, but it does playtest the new rule of no longer having Lv. 1 subclasses

I feel like the change from "race" to "species" emphasizes more division between the groups. A race is one of many subgroups of one species of people, while species are distinct from each other and don't generally mix ("interbreed"). I don't care for the word "race" being used to describe physical and lineage characteristics of PCs, but I dislike the division that "species" implies more. I don't mind using the new term but it would be nice if they could come up with one that fits the mechanic better.

Not only does Species sound more like a sci-fi thing, it also implies that half-orcs and half-elves (and any other half-something character) are sterile as different species cannot reproduce and produce a fertile offspring so species is very much the wrong term. If you really don't want to use the word race (which is the actual correct term) then use something like lineage or ancestry.

Long Rest: it also doesn't say a long rest is a maximum 8 hours. If things get thrown off, just rest for 10 hours, or take time breaking camp - maybe the halflings won't leave camp until they've had second breakfast ...

When the creator actually adds the previous video tag in the video when they reference it, it's the little things we appreciate

That’s not what he said about the Goliath and the Orc. He said that before this, if someone wanted to play an aesthetically burly species from the PHB they would have to pick the Half-Orc (he actually said Orc but he was referring to the game as is) and that they don’t want to pigeon-hole people into one choice to fulfill their aesthetic fantasy (e.g. people who want to play little folk can go Gnome or Halfling). The decision to broaden the aesthetic and mechanics of the Goliath is unrelated to the beefiness comment he made, but rather a necessity of making Goliaths more flexible in accordance with the other PHB species especially the Dragonborn who he explicitly linked with the Goliaths thematically.

I don't think they're ever going to comment on it, but the speed thing for small races is almost certainly because being "Small" in D&D (or being a Halfling) was basically describing mechanics for being a little person, or for being a person with some kind of disability that affects growth. They don't want to be in the business of saying "there are two kinds of people - tall, fast people who can hold longbows, and short, slow people who can dart between tall peoples' legs", although they'll be fine with having similar traits that are less similar to actual real-life people (especially real-life groups that are sometimes marginalized). Like, I'm sure they have no problem saying that pixies are Tiny and therefore can do those things. It's the same reason that many species now let you choose Small or Medium. Frankly I think if they were redesigning D&D from the ground up today they would not include the Small category at all, and halflings, gnomes, goblins, kobolds, etc. would all be Medium.

Racer is easy. You get a bonus to your DASH action. Assuming 30 ft move speed, and +2 proficiency bonus. Move 30 ft, take a dash action, move another 50 ft (30 ft dash + 10 x proficientcy bonus 2). Easy peasy.

Really great breakdown of the new material sir! I'm glad I listened to you because I missed a few things that you saw!

I sometimes have checks not because the check can succeed, but because it's possible to fail catastrophically. If you're trying to convince the king to do something he won't do, I'm gonna ask for a check if you insist, and if you roll low enough the king's going to be angry

My favourite part of the UA is the calcification on rules for hiding, invisibility, influence, etc. Including the recommended DCs for such activities and the details in regards to perceiving and stealthing I'm hoping they keep expanding on it though and don't sit on their laurels Also on the rest part. I'm actually a fan of it because it's meant to discourage players trying to long rest after every encounter, to help DMs tax the parties resources and so when they stupidly decide to long rest in an unsafe space, and they get a random encounter and are attacked, it hampers them. It also makes random encounters potentially more impactful other than a minor inconvenience

I don’t want movement speeds to be standardized myself. It makes sense that some things would be slower or faster (aren’t Centaurs 40?). 30 as a baseline and having small ranges above that seems fine and not too drastic of a change. Otherwise why have movement speed be a stat in the first place outside of ‘all creatures have a movement speed of 30’ somewhere. Doesn’t seem as fun

10:40 It says dash action which is separate from normal movement. I think all it means is when you kick it in gear and burn your action to dash you can add 20 ft at that time. Otherwise your movement is the same as everyone else. edit: I agree with your nitpick on the movement speed. If you are going to make everyone the same make them all the same.

for that rest concern on it constantly pushing your rests back further and further each day, they could adjust it so that it's a 14 hour timer instead of 16 hour, so that you get a 2 hour leniency on the matter

My understanding with having smaller origins be slower is that it was a tradeoff; as something like a gnome or halfling you would be harder to hit and have some benefits like lucky. I think they should definitely make up their mind if they want to standardize speeds or let there be faster or slower depending on origin/species

Racer: "for that action" I believe means for the DASH action, so only for the dash distance, not the original move action.

The four Dragonborn Breath Weapons compiled For all the DC is 8 + CON + Prof. Bns and on a succeded Saving Throw the damage is half. PHB Action. Once per Long Rest. Ancestry (5 colors and 5 metals) determines: * Size and shape (15ft cone or 5x30ft line) * Damage type (Elemental type) * Saving throw type (Dex or Con) DMG: 2d6 dmg; increases by +1d6 at 6th, 11th, 16th. Fizban Action on your turn, can replace one of your attacks. Prof. Bns. times per Long Rest. Ancestry (chromatic, metallic, gem) determines: * Size and shape (5x30ft line {chromatic} or 15ft cone {the others}) * Damage type (Gem have non elemental, the others just elemental type) DMG: Dex save, 1d10 dmg; increases by +1d10 at 5th, 11th, 17th. UA 2022 Character Origins Action, size and shape 15ft cone. Ancestry (5 colors and 5 metals) determines the Damage Type (Elemental type). DMG: Dex save, 1d10 dmg + Character level on a failed. UA 2022 Cleric and Species Action on your turn, can replace one of your attacks. Prof. Bns. times per Long Rest. Size and shape 30x5ft line or 15ft cone. Ancestry (5 colors and 5 metals) determines the Damage Type (Elemental type). DMG: Dex save, 1d10 dmg; increases by +1d10 at 5th, 11th, 17th.

This finally makes me want to play a Goliath!

dont apologize for nitpicking, thats the point of these playtests. the more refined the rules are, the less we need to change ourselves at the table. solid vid good takes

Getting rid of the small speed penalty is definitely to make people not feel slower. It’s like how in 5th Ed they got rid of stat penalties.

For the Racer Dash bit, it reads to me that you have base Speed, but when Dashing you get 2xSpeed+10xProf. Bonus. EX: Base Sped is 30 and Proficiency Bonus is +2. Dash makes it +30 more = 60. Racer Feature is 10 x Prof. Bonus (2) = 20. Total = 80 . (60+20) Love the videos! Keep 'em coming, please.

With regarding to dazed it was a condition fairly common in 4th edition which does pretty much exactly as described here.

I don't know about speeding tryceratops either, but a velociraptor is as tall as a chicken and not those killer reptiles from Jurassic Park. That beast was somewhat a species of oversized denonychus. But I can picture in my mind an antropomorph tryceratops which is analog to a minotaur. Something like a bulky scale-covered humanoid with a three-horned head.

Agree feeling slow is worse then feeling that someone is fast

It wasn't the damage that was weak about the breath attack. It was the fact that it used a full action, there are better spells and most martials can do more damage in a turn with their weapon

Epic, the change to species from race is amazing.

I can’t remember which new video it was in, but Jeremy Crawford said that the new weapon options are going to be for warrior classes! When talking about the changes to great weapon master and sharp shooter, he said they wanted warriors to get cool damage dealing options from their classes, rather than needing to select specific feats. I definitely agree with your long rest complaint, it doesn’t seem nitpicky to me at all. Overall though-very psyched for this UA 🎉

My guess is that Wizard will get a preferred school as a class feature instead of it being a subclass. But maybe that’s just how I’d do it. It would be cool to play a necromancer blade-singer or a transmutation scribe

Ted from Nerd Immersion was reviewing this live, and someone mentioned "Ancestry" instead of "Species", so you can have the "ABC"s of character creation: "Ancestry", "Background", "Class".

Speaking entirely from personal experience, I see what the long rest but is going for. There have occasionally been situations where the party finishes a rest going into early hours of the morning at say 10AM, THEN they rest the same day at a decent hour after a grueling combat at 8pm for early job the next Day They got the 16 hours from 24 - 8. The problem is it necessitates mathing things out if say you have a few days of down time. My suggestion, as I see kinda what they're going for, after the end of a long rest, you must wait 12 hours before taking a long rest again. It makes math super simple, while still addressing a concern.

I think something to consider about a long rest is that they can probably be longer than 8 hours. I typically go with any period that the players are not engaged in combat or doing tasks that would otherwise force them to expend spell slots or abilities - then that’s a period of rest. They aren’t exercising those abilities and there have a chance to recover. Those periods can extend past 8 hours, they could be at a festival and looking for clues or socializing - I think that the rules for long tests are somewhat arbitrary but we only ever look at the minimum or rushed outcome.

Disciple of Life now only applies to healing that occurs on the same turn the Cleric uses a spell slot to heal. This feels like how the feature was originally intended to work and it's how I already house rule it. Glad they revised it to remove the ambiguity.

Listing triceratops as a racing species might be a clever reference to the Tomb of Annihilation adventure in which you could bet on or even participate in triceratops races while in Port Nyanzaru.

Like Dragonborn, Goliaths should have an elemental resistance based on lineage.

I’m with you bob on the giant speed. Keep it 30 and put it on an activatable ability like the giant form or even dash. Everyone having the same speed just cleans up play a ton in my experience

Definitely like the new dragonborn. 10/10

That new race in there definitely doesn't feel like Goliath, but it's definitely pretty cool mechanically. I would love to see it as like a generic giant-kin or something like that

If you're a racer ardling with move speed 30 ft and you dash, your dash is boosted by Prof bonus times 10. So you have 30 ft movement, dash is normally an extra 30, then you tack on 20 extra feet while dashing.

That divine shock is literally an almost exact copy of a spell from world of Warcraft called holy shock which could be used to either hurt or heal. Not complaining, just pointing it out because it's interesting

The extra speed for dash is only once since it specifies "for the dash action" The dash action doesn't double your speed, it let's you use 'move' as an action, which is also why cunning action means you can move then dash then bonus dash all in one turn

Its a little weird to me that they changed race to species, due to the definition of both words, especially since stuff like half elves or half orcs exist

I suppose strictly reading it as written for the Dog variant of Ardling, it does specify "your speed increases *for that action* ". So your normal move is still 30 feet, but the bonus move granted by the dash action has its speed increased to 50 (up to 90 at higher levels)

I actually made homebrew goliath subraces a few years ago

Slight clarification - the reason they included the goliath in the PHB now, is so that the *orc* doesn't have to be the only beefy/buff species that a lot of players default to. Adding the goliath gives 2 flavors of burly buff guy, so the orc/half orc doesn't have to be a monolith.

The bonus to dash is + 10x proficiency bonus ONLY when dashing, no bonus to regular movement speed

I really love the way you talk about these changes! I feel like there's a lot of negative complaining, and feeling that excitement and happiness for change really lifts my mood! Wishing you a great year

"Eventually you're gonna have to be resting during the daytime or skip a rest to reset it..." Ahh, I remember college.

Love your comment about the long rest. Ofc most parties wouldnt be that strict but the implication of the rule is actual pretty rediculous and not realistic at all (Even tho it could be fun to go on adventures on night and sleep during the day ^^) They could just change it to every 12 hours or say long rests cant be done during the day. That would defentitly do the same as gms controll the flow of time anyway. Great video, as always, Bob!

But race is the correct usage of the word.. We use it wrong black and white are not races. Humans are all the same race.

4:50 Both scholar and thaumaturge should give an additional cantrip because if you don't get martial weapons you need cantrips to fight with.

I think that the long rest wait time thing should exist but be reduced to a 8-12 hours. The only other idea I would have for it being that if your rest is interrupted by a fight, the time until your next long rest is not interrupted. So if you are awoken at 7 by a fight and go back to sleep after the fight to get your full rest, then waking up at say 9 instead of 8 then the time until your next long rest is not affected. My reasoning for this is so that everyone is aware of when they can get their next long rest by the time they go to sleep the day before without having to add extra math on to compensate for one fight.