I'm not seeing anything about crits being nerfed? There's some slight wording changes such as capitalizing Critical Hit and swapping out an "also" for an "as well", but the wording seems substantially the same to me, even specifically calling out that it works on Sneak Attack. "When you score a critical hit, you get to roll extra dice for the attack's damage against the target. Roll all of the attack's damage dice twice and add them together. Then add any relevant modifiers as normal. To speed up play, you can roll all the damage dice at once. For example, if you score a critical hit with a dagger, roll 2d4 for the damage, rather than 1d4, and then add your relevant ability modifier. *If the attack involves other damage dice, such as from the rogue's Sneak Attack feature, you roll those dice twice as well.* " -- 5e PHB "When you score a Critical Hit, you deal extra damage. Roll the attack’s damage dice twice, add them together, and add any relevant modifiers as normal. For example, if you score a Critical Hit with a Dagger, roll 2d4 for the damage rather than 1d4, and add your relevant ability modifier. *If the attack involves other damage dice, such as from the Rogue’s Sneak Attack feature, you also roll those dice twice.* " -- 5.5 PHB
They did a better job of balancing the races. The one thing I don’t like is tying the Feat and Ability Score bonuses do Backgrounds and not giving the Player the ability to customize. Rather than picking a Background that goes along with your role play concept, players will just pick the Background that is optimized for their Class.
So good to see your coverage! The best thing about the new 2024 PHB is that a new player a really great place to start playing and not needed any older books.
Dungeon Dudes: Crits aren't fun enough. Don't roll the extra dice. Just count them as if you rolled max on the extra dice, and then roll the normal dice and add them. WotC: Crits aren't fun enough. Let's nerf them!
The new races, I mean species, are too sanitized. Loss of diversity, in the name of Diversity® My half orc wasn't evil. He leaned heavily into his orcish heritage after his father's death. But his human mother still gave him humanity. Being the exception to expectations is what made Ragnar who he was. Now, a good hearted orc is cannon. Sanitized. Bleh.
I'm not seeing anything about crits being nerfed? There's some slight wording changes such as capitalizing Critical Hit and swapping out an "also" for an "as well", but the wording seems substantially the same to me, even specifically calling out that it works on Sneak Attack.
"When you score a critical hit, you get to roll extra dice for the attack's damage against the target. Roll all of the attack's damage dice twice and add them together. Then add any relevant modifiers as normal. To speed up play, you can roll all the damage dice at once.
For example, if you score a critical hit with a dagger, roll 2d4 for the damage, rather than 1d4, and then add your relevant ability modifier. *If the attack involves other damage dice, such as from the rogue's Sneak Attack feature, you roll those dice twice as well.* " -- 5e PHB
"When you score a Critical Hit, you deal extra damage. Roll the attack’s damage dice twice, add them together, and add any relevant modifiers as normal. For example, if you score a Critical Hit with a Dagger, roll 2d4 for the damage rather than 1d4, and add your relevant ability modifier. *If the attack involves other damage dice, such as from the Rogue’s Sneak Attack feature, you also roll those dice twice.* " -- 5.5 PHB
They did a better job of balancing the races.
The one thing I don’t like is tying the Feat and Ability Score bonuses do Backgrounds and not giving the Player the ability to customize. Rather than picking a Background that goes along with your role play concept, players will just pick the Background that is optimized for their Class.
So good to see your coverage! The best thing about the new 2024 PHB is that a new player a really great place to start playing and not needed any older books.
So good to see your coverage!
Hmmm... Seems like there should be a general rule that if you can do something as a bonus action you can also do it as an action.
It feels like more and more that all the race options just feel like humans wearing different hats.
Goliaths are to Giants, as Kobolds are to Dragons. Abominable or cute?
Dungeon Dudes: Crits aren't fun enough. Don't roll the extra dice. Just count them as if you rolled max on the extra dice, and then roll the normal dice and add them.
WotC: Crits aren't fun enough. Let's nerf them!
The new races, I mean species, are too sanitized. Loss of diversity, in the name of Diversity®
My half orc wasn't evil. He leaned heavily into his orcish heritage after his father's death. But his human mother still gave him humanity. Being the exception to expectations is what made Ragnar who he was. Now, a good hearted orc is cannon. Sanitized. Bleh.