The One D&D Playtest was a critical hit... literally  

Great video Jeremy, I think we observed a lot of the same things.

Pretty much agree with everything you said! Thanks again for running this for us - had a total blast :)

One thing I think significantly made the second fight easier was that you allowed them to all have their big concentration spells already active at the start of the fight, which removed the main drawback of those spells, aka having to spend your first round action to set them up.

I thought it was generous of you to allow Chris to determine the Beholder’s facing, but it was also awesome and not overpowered. It felt VERY old-school.

"Gator from Pack Tactics" lol

I loved the sessions and would love to see more of it.

Congrats! And what a ride that fight was

This was great. So much better than hearing people theorize about the playtest. It helped a lot that your players were optimizers with youtube experience. I also really appreciate the recaps. Please do more playtest recaps.

I really enjoyed your one shot! Great job!

I love the old divine intervention, I like how it scales a little bit with each level you gain, I like that it’s a d100, I like that it takes a while to recharge if it succeeds because it’s so impactful. It’s one of the only features that feels like a holdover from classic dnd

A thing most people forget about the magic item rarity system is that there's a major/minor system to it as well. A Helm of Telepathy or Instrument of the Bards are Major items despite their uncommon rarity, compared to a Potion of Greater Healing that is also uncommon but a Minor tier.

Enjoyed this analysis of the Playtest very much. I watched the Playtest primarily due to the participation of Colby, whom I have been following for BG3 builds (I don't have anyone to play TTD&D with). Would very much be interested in additional DM games you would run, and appreciate your willingness to adapt to changing situations, such as the Burrowing Dragon problem. Again though, static images of players does just not cut it for me. Since I mostly play BG3 D&D, I have found that Movement and Alert are king, at least in the normal course of the game. Of course, other things come to the fore when moving into the more esoteric aspects of BG3. But being able to act first, move far, and never be surprised is really fun. ;) Only other thing I would recommend would be when doing the 'Encounter Only' type of adventure, put a little narrative into the session. Just to link everything together and provide motivation for the whole progression of the game. :) Thanks again for hosting this adventure.

Great stuff. The one-shot was awesome, and the recap was also on point. Congrats on the subs, I wish you continued success.

Congrats dude. I like the use of Modrons in the background to start Edit: your thoughts on Weapon Mastery WAS EXACTLY what I was thinking of. Also, I wanna see a Mechanus/Modron one shot

I get the divine Intervention change, but for me it's not worth losing a really unique ability. PCs cast spells all the time after all. I'll be keeping the 'spell or other effect' part.

It was a blast!!!!!

I honestly think that most classes are in a prett good place right now. Rogue needs some more love considering what all other martial classes have received and I think barbarians still need some more stuff at the higher tiers of play. Im also interested how they will handle Sorcerer subclasses. Maybe they should revert to the 2014 spell progression and give each subclass a custom spell list? I would have liked to see another round of playtests for these 3 things specifically but other than that they prety much nailed it

Enjoying your channel :) I will sub and go back to watch your older stuff. Good fight!🎉

The oneshot was a joy to watch, and it surely makes me excited to play a Monk when the new PHB comes out. I hope they don't nerf them back down.

I always thought spells like telekinesis or bigby's hands were checks because they are basically contested grapple checks (just one person is grappling with magic). But then it looks like 5.5 might be removing contested checks too.

While I get the idea about ability checks not fitting for where a save seems more intuitive I think for physical restraint based spells it might need a deeper look than just making it a save. The people/creatures you want to physically restrain are almost always the type to be proficient in that save and are frequently strong. It will go from a mid chance of success to a very low chance of success. Getting people off wisdom save spells is hard enough as is.

LE...LOYAL-ELF.. THE END OF ALL THINGS.

I'm new to D&D. Wanted to play for years but just didnt have the friend group for it. Recently got introduced to one and we are prepping our first campaign for later this month. I hope you guys do another 3ish hour campaign after the September official release. Maybe make it a yearly January thing?

Amazing work, this is exactly the kind of real playtesting experience the community needs. RE weapon mastery, I think WoTC's hands are tied. They are connected to specific weapons because they don't want new players to have to parse and choose between 8 weapon mastery properties whose mechanics they don't even understand yet. Instead, new players can make the flavour choice: "My guy uses a greatsword", and Graze just comes with that.

Was a really nice oneshot to watch and you did a great job. Hopefully you didn't feel like you had to let them get away with stuff other players wouldn't because they're"famous" 😅

Sorry Kobold, having a Radius means it's a Circle template.

FRUITS.MODRONS.

5k subs well earned!!

Burrowing is interesting in D&D. Frankly, I think it'd be more fun if the adventurers could have followed the dragon into its own tunnel to attack it with unstable walls all around them. Sounds like an epic fight. Just having it hidden underground until it burrows out to attack does make it a lame fight. I've had similar issues in campaigns where things can come into an out of the ethereal or other planes. It feels like it unnecessarily draws out the battle, like you mentioned in your video.

As much as I want to not like the weird way they are doing this refresh, my current character is 100% better under the UA Playtest rules as they were last published. The new rules do mess up the level progression at lower levels, but we are at level 8 now and the new levels where features and subclasses start don’t matter anymore.

The one shot was great and this video is very complementary! 🤤

Cool video. When is one d&d official release?

As a veteran DM and player of Dnd since second edition, let me be crystal clear THERE NOT SINGLE ONE CHANGE IN ONE DND THAT I AGREE WITH. 1. Making casters prepared caster and prepare spells from certain schools (like bard, or ranger) might solve the problem they might had BUT IT STRIPS AWAY THE IDENTITY OF THE FULL CASTERS WE KNOW. When a player decides to play a cleric, bard, druid, wizard, sorcerer, warlock they do because the versatility of choices make them excited to do so. Strict the casters prepare their spell equal to the spell slots? Huge restrictment. 2. Making a warlock a half caster. SERIOUSLY? 3. Druid wild shape, need to say more here? 2. The designers and some players that say that one dnd is actually good THEY FORGOT THAT OUR GAME IS NOT I REPEAT IS NOT A VIDEO GAME IT IS. A TABLETOP RPG GAME it started as ttrpg and should remain ttrpg. With that I mean that changes that strict certain classes like video games is a no go to me. I don't want a restrict martial class not doing what it excels to do, cleave among enemies, throwing big hits, use unique abilities like battle master, I don't want a caster that is nerfed from his spells selection (banishment) to prepare spells equal his spell slots. Every player when decide to play a martial class or a spellcasting class has in his mind a certain choices to do and a concept, by restrict the choices to any player is a no go to me. 3. I can't stand that the one dnd choices has the excuse of "balance". I don't see any balance in druid, cleric, wizard, bard, warlock, sorcerer changes, I see a huge unbalance here saying "Oh casters in 5e was too powerful let's nerf them" when that would not be the choice in first place. If we want balance in this game and make martial classes powerfull and Excell more in melee combat then we make battlemaster the default fighter. Give barbarian unique abilities, example I see ABSOLUTELY no problem in a Barbarn when raging to not only apply additional damage to his attacks BUT ALSO frighten his enemies or daze them or stunned them and AT THE SAME TIME the additional damage might be fire /cold /lightning /thunder /force damage, that barbarian might have a battle cry that cause a wisdom saving throw to enemies and in a fail save the enemy gets frozen from fear. I see no problem with monks getting extra attack right away and with bonus action after a ury of blows throw their opponent 10 ft away for additional bludgeoning damage. 8 see no problem with a paladin when barbarian and monk creating havoc in melee in an encounter with minions deciding to smite like A NO A helping them clean house as they say. I see no problem a battlemaster has an ability that spends a superiority die and get double his str bonus on damage roll or push an enemy to a range of fireball. And in that part of strong martial characters in melee I see no problem a cleric bless them and aid them throw to the enemy caster a spiritual weapon, the wizard counters Pell an incoming spell target an ally of him a warlock throw evard black tentacles to the enemies a sorcerer twin banishment (as it is now) helping the martial characters focus on cleaning house without thinking of potential big guys make their life difficult But all the above is my humble opinion

Stride of the Elements seems like a magical effect to me, personally I wouldn’t allow it in an anti-magic cone.

I disagree about weapon mastery being tied to characters. People have complained for years that there isn't a mechanical incentive to pick different weapons beyond personal tastes or flavor. WM is that incentive. Granted I feel they should take it a bit further and not limit effects to once per turn but it's a step in the right direction.

What vtt is that?

Honestly I think burrow mechanics should be severely slowed down. Like 1/3rd or 1/5th of ground speed as a baseline. We're not talking about walking or flying here but pushing earth around as you move through it. It's overpowered and immersion breaking. I think notable exception is the earth elemental that explicitly merges with stone as it moves through it, but a bulette with 40 speed/40 burrow? Honestly I think 10 burrow is more appropriate.

I liked the one shot a lot. I would have enjoyed it a bit more if there would've been more role-play and story involved.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="15">0:15</a> wait, are you whitey from "Me, Myself and Irene"?

rest casting?

Sweet

There seemed to be a basic misunderstanding of the Deep Dragon's Burrow. From the basic rules: Burrow A monster that has a burrowing speed can use that speed to move through sand, earth, mud, or ice. A monster can’t burrow through solid rock unless it has a special trait that allows it to do so. Terrain looked like rock to me. Like you said, no one's perfect but the call to not have burrow was probably more in line with its rules.

It could be the greatest ttrpg system ever made, I'm still not buying into annual rules changes for a 50+ year old game. This is a blatant cash grab and I won't be giving a cent to the corporate demons at wizards

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I really HATE magic items rarity on 5e, if the new DMG doesn't fix this issue with pricification on every item I will loose my sht, 10 years of this nightmare is more than enough

NAGASH THE NECROMANCER=FAUN. ABOUT DYENISOS.ALL DAY.'