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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2014, 06:19:21 PM »
Official PH spoilers. Altough it seems mostly a percentile chart for something.

That's a Wild Magic Surge table.

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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2014, 03:09:44 PM »
grog at gamingden is beyotching about the Asian-ness of that.
And claims some insider info that the Art was farmed out
to cheap labor in China.
Personally I think it looks fine ... and in any case, the expansion
market for D&D goes China, Latin America, India etc.
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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #22 on: June 09, 2014, 04:31:12 PM »
Official PH spoilers. Altough it seems mostly a percentile chart for something.
That's a Wild Magic Surge table.

Dude on Reddit deciphered both pages
(linked via prakanima at the den)
scroll down for the second page
http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/27f74x/mike_mearls_leaks_a_bit_of_the_phb_warlocks/

Looks to me like:  More 3e , Some 4e , Some 5e

And technically speaking, why would there be (only?)
1 Wild Surge table, instead of a general category?
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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #23 on: June 09, 2014, 11:24:07 PM »
It seems Wild Magic is a Sorcerer class path, like how a Rogue chooses whether to be more of a poison-using assassin or a sneaky thief. Most classes have class paths, at least one of which is fairly straight-forward and similar to a standard archetype of their class (A Fighter that's better at standard combat) and alternative class paths that offer more varied options (that same fighter who instead gains access to tactical 'maneuvers' in combat).

I'd bet that there's at least one  other class path for the Sorcerer that is Dragon-based. It's not even a fair bet, don't waste your money on it.

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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2014, 01:33:56 AM »
...Class path...so we're back to 2e's kits now? That would simplify building single classed characters with mechanical differences from each other, though. Kits were kind of like PrC's made up of ACF's.
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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2014, 10:50:02 AM »
Haven't really spent any time with the material, but hopefully they are eliminating the dead levels issues from 3e

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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2014, 11:06:22 AM »
So far,  every class seems to be getting something every level. Some spellcasting classes have levels they don't get a new class feature or feat/ability score improvement, but those are always levels they get access to a new spell level (and new spells per day with it). So there's always something new. I've actually got players excited for class features that are upcoming.

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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2014, 11:09:05 PM »
So far,  every class seems to be getting something every level. Some spellcasting classes have levels they don't get a new class feature or feat/ability score improvement, but those are always levels they get access to a new spell level (and new spells per day with it). So there's always something new. I've actually got players excited for class features that are upcoming.

Sure, but I'll call out 3e Druid vs. Cleric.

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Re: D&D 5E (The Forthcoming Printed Books)
« Reply #28 on: June 14, 2014, 02:03:31 AM »
This seems as good a place as any to put this:

5e will have digital character creation and adventure planning tools
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