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	'''One D&D''' is the latest attempt by Wizards of the Coast to revamp the [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition\| soon-to-be 10-year-old 5th Edition]] and change some rules. The full release will launch in 2024, commemorating the 50th anniversary of this long-running franchise. Playtesting for it began in August 2022, and ~~will likely continue with monthly documents until release~~.		'''One D&D,''' or D&D 5e 2024 (or informally, 5.5e) is the latest attempt by Wizards of the Coast to revamp the [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition\| soon-to-be 10-year-old 5th Edition]] and change some rules. The full release will launch in 2024, commemorating the 50th anniversary of this long-running franchise. Playtesting for it began in August 2022, releasing documents one month and a survey the next.

	The main premise for this edition (and the reason why it's using One as a title) is that WOTC plans on not only releasing books, but also an online database that will always be updating. This is ([[Wizards of the Coast\|supposedly]]) so that players don't have to suffer having to wait for years for errata, plus avoiding some of the pain of having to buy both a book and digital rules.		The main premise for this edition (and the reason why it's using One as a title) is that WOTC plans on not only releasing books, but also an online database that will always be updating. This is ([[Wizards of the Coast\|supposedly]]) so that players don't have to suffer having to wait for years for errata, plus avoiding some of the pain of having to buy both a book and digital rules.

	However, this came with ''massive'' blows such as the OGL being put under threat for a good bit and the game deciding to emulate the [[skub\|skubtastic]] microtransactions found in video games. As such, many think One D&D will be the death of the franchise (or at very least revert all the goodwill and success the franchise has gained with 5E), though whether this will actually come to pass remains to be seen.		However, this came with ''massive'' blows such as the OGL being put under threat for a good bit and the game deciding to emulate the [[skub\|skubtastic]] microtransactions found in video games. Not helping issues is the fact that 2023 saw Hasbro lay off many employees across all its branches to cut costs, including WotC as well. As such, many think One D&D will be the death of the franchise (or at very least revert all the goodwill and success the franchise has gained with 5E), though whether this will actually come to pass remains to be seen.

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	==Microtransaction hell==		==Microtransaction hell==
	Even ''more'' troubling is that One D&D is apparently going down the same route as fucking [[/v/\|triple-A vidya]] via [[RAGE\|implementing microtransactions for content smaller than book-level]], all for a Virtual Tabletop that also has paid subscription tiers. Even some magic items, my god. So much for that online database being a good thing, since you're going to have to pay to access the stuff you want ''specifically''. This is likely because in their infinite wisdom Hasbro made an ex-Microsoft employee their CEO, which is a bad idea for multiple reasons, and said CEO has stated that [[What\|D&D is undermonetized even with the expensive ass books]]. So yeah, if the OGL wasn't enough to erode any good faith WOTC had left, this fucking did.		Even ''more'' troubling is that One D&D is apparently going down the same route as fucking [[/v/\|triple-A vidya]] via [[RAGE\|implementing microtransactions for content smaller than book-level]], all for a Virtual Tabletop that also has paid subscription tiers. Even some magic items, my god. So much for that online database being a good thing, since you're going to have to pay to access the stuff you want ''specifically''. This is likely because in their infinite wisdom Hasbro made an ex-Microsoft employee (the appropriately named Chris Cocks) their CEO, which is a bad idea for multiple reasons, and said CEO has stated that [[What\|D&D is undermonetized even with the expensive ass books]]. So yeah, if the OGL wasn't enough to erode any good faith WOTC had left, this fucking did.

	Fortunately, this has also become a glowing weak spot for the beast, as the corporate obsession with short-term profits has meant that they're more interested in the subscriptions to their D&D Beyond services than any other purchases because it means a consistent flow of money. Of course, the easiest way to hurt such is to cancel any subscriptions to Beyond and to stay off their shitty service once they open up the actual 3D tabletop service. Of course, this happened once the full extent for Wizards' contempt for their own consumer base was laid bare, and as a panic button, [[Wat\|Wizards had to hide the cancel subscription button on their website]], hoping that the stupids will forget this offense with time before revealing something only slightly less tyrannical. As part of their aforementioned appeasement, the suits tried to introduce a VTT policy that seemed obsessed with nonsensical aspects that mean little to a VTT, hoping to draw attention away from the real issues. While the OGL issue folded over, there was no word on how they were going to address the issues about the microtransaction-laden system, which means that any further fuckery can and most likely will take place over this as a hill they would desperately die on.		Fortunately, this has also become a glowing weak spot for the beast, as the corporate obsession with short-term profits has meant that they're more interested in the subscriptions to their D&D Beyond services than any other purchases because it means a consistent flow of money. Of course, the easiest way to hurt such is to cancel any subscriptions to Beyond and to stay off their shitty service once they open up the actual 3D tabletop service. Of course, this happened once the full extent for Wizards' contempt for their own consumer base was laid bare, and as a panic button, [[Wat\|Wizards had to hide the cancel subscription button on their website]], hoping that the stupids will forget this offense with time before revealing something only slightly less tyrannical. As part of their aforementioned appeasement, the suits tried to introduce a VTT policy that seemed obsessed with nonsensical aspects that mean little to a VTT, hoping to draw attention away from the real issues. While the OGL issue folded over, there was no word on how they were going to address the issues about the microtransaction-laden system, which means that any further fuckery can and most likely will take place over this as a hill they would desperately die on.

			July 2023 made this intention known by unveiling the next step - Packaging physical books with digital codes for the content in D&D Beyond at a markup. While this doesn't sound so devious at the outset with other RPGs selling physical books with codes for digital versions, D&D doesn't want to sell PDFs. No, they want you to use D&D Beyond for all their content. They want you to be like Apple with all your content locked into there own ecosystem that you need to depend on it in order to play their games the way they want it. After all, using D&D Beyond means being forced to buy subscriptions for the content they can charge for whatever they want and can freely change whenever they want - an issue we've seen quite a few times when Wizards makes some [[Hadozee\|monumental fuckups]] in writing and wants to sweep them under the rug without acknowledging a thing, and with all your content locked to D&D beyond, you would have no recourse if they further alter the deal. No need to make easy-to-pirate PDFs or share costs with major sellers like DriveThruRPG, not when you have your own walled garden to herd the chickens into before suffocating the cash out of them.

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2023-06-17T22:27:25Z

Rogue

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	====[[Rogue]]====		====[[Rogue]]====
	* Thieves' Cant provides proficiency in an extra language.		* Thieves' Cant provides proficiency in an extra language.
	* Sneak attack is now once per '''Round''' rather then per turn, meaning you can no longer get sneak attack on attacks of opportunity and now only works when taking the attack action so [[Arcane_Trickster\|Arcane Tricksters]] can no longer use booming or green flame blade and get sneak attack.		* Sneak attack is now once per '''Round''' rather then per turn, meaning you can no longer get sneak attack on attacks of opportunity or other tricks to gain out-of-turn attacks from party members, and now only works when taking the attack action so [[Arcane_Trickster\|Arcane Tricksters]] can no longer use booming or green flame blade and get sneak attack.
	* Level 13 provides a new feature that grants advantage to attacks against enemies engaged with your friends - aka, advantage on sneak attacks.		* Level 13 provides a new feature that grants advantage to attacks against enemies engaged with your friends - aka, advantage on sneak attacks.
	* Thief now grants an actual climb speed rather than just no movement penalties to climbing.		* Thief now grants an actual climb speed rather than just no movement penalties to climbing.

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Rogue

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	====[[Rogue]]====		====[[Rogue]]====
	* Thieves' Cant provides proficiency in an extra language.		* Thieves' Cant provides proficiency in an extra language.
			* Sneak attack is now once per '''Round''' rather then per turn, meaning you can no longer get sneak attack on attacks of opportunity and now only works when taking the attack action so [[Arcane_Trickster\|Arcane Tricksters]] can no longer use booming or green flame blade and get sneak attack.
	* Level 13 provides a new feature that grants advantage to attacks against enemies engaged with your friends - aka, advantage on sneak attacks.		* Level 13 provides a new feature that grants advantage to attacks against enemies engaged with your friends - aka, advantage on sneak attacks.
	* Thief now grants an actual climb speed rather than just no movement penalties to climbing.		* Thief now grants an actual climb speed rather than just no movement penalties to climbing.

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	* All pacts are now not only represented as specific cantrips, all of them also have alternative primary stats, which can make for some wild dip builds.		* All pacts are now not only represented as specific cantrips, all of them also have alternative primary stats, which can make for some wild dip builds.
	** ''Pact weapon'' can still bond with an existing weapon, and conjures one that lasts for 24 hours as an action if you don't have one on hand. (It works on anything without Heavy.) The weapon now gets Returning if it also has Thrown, so you can cheese out throwing weapons, themselves buffed by rules changes, and it scales to gain Extra Attack for free instead of having to blow invocations on it. Even better is that the class now has Medium armor proficiency baked in, so you're even better suited for it.		** ''Pact weapon'' can still bond with an existing weapon, and conjures one that lasts for 24 hours as an action if you don't have one on hand. (It works on anything without Heavy.) The weapon now gets Returning if it also has Thrown, so you can cheese out throwing weapons, themselves buffed by rules changes, and it scales to gain Extra Attack for free instead of having to blow invocations on it. Even better is that the class now has Medium armor proficiency baked in, so you're even better suited for it.
	*** Its unique invocation ~~still~~ deals an extra d6 necrotic damage, although you then regain hitpoints equal to the damage dealt, which is nice, if not enough to save it from mediocrity.		*** Its unique invocation now deals an extra d6 necrotic damage instead of extra necrotic damage equal to charisma modifier, although you then regain hitpoints equal to the damage dealt, which is nice, if not enough to save it from mediocrity.
	*** Since its casting stat can be either Wis or Cha, you can now make a Cleric/Warlock just as easily as you can make a Paladin/Warlock, though with the changes and tweaks neither's really that desirable.		*** Since its casting stat can be either Wis or Cha, you can now make a Cleric/Warlock just as easily as you can make a Paladin/Warlock, though with the changes and tweaks neither's really that desirable.
	** ''Pact familiar'' now summons a generic familiar that you can always communicate with. Offers a much wider variety of options and creature types, but these choices are generally cosmetic aside from strange corner cases and damage types. It keeps most of the old familiars' blend of flight, invisibility (though it needs to spend an action on it every turn to ''stay'' invisible), and high-powered Darkvision, actually scales for shit, has not-quite-proficiency on all ability score checks and saves (an incredible dark horse benefit), and gains some old benefits you used to have to spend invocations on for free as you level up! Unfortunately, it also keeps the old Chain's bizarre fixation on making the familiar into a combat partner; none of the upgrades really fix the old problem of a familiar dying in a stiff breeze whenever it's actually targeted. Hell, none of them actually have any resistances or immunities anymore, meaning that, pittance of hitpoints and a point or two of AC aside, they're actually in some ways ''more'' fragile than they used to be! At least you only have to burn your reaction that you might've wanted to actually use for other important things to make it attack instead of the action you'd almost certainly rather spend on ''eldritch blast''!		** ''Pact familiar'' now summons a generic familiar that you can always communicate with. Offers a much wider variety of options and creature types, but these choices are generally cosmetic aside from strange corner cases and damage types. It keeps most of the old familiars' blend of flight, invisibility (though it needs to spend an action on it every turn to ''stay'' invisible), and high-powered Darkvision, actually scales for shit, has not-quite-proficiency on all ability score checks and saves (an incredible dark horse benefit), and gains some old benefits you used to have to spend invocations on for free as you level up! Unfortunately, it also keeps the old Chain's bizarre fixation on making the familiar into a combat partner; none of the upgrades really fix the old problem of a familiar dying in a stiff breeze whenever it's actually targeted. Hell, none of them actually have any resistances or immunities anymore, meaning that, pittance of hitpoints and a point or two of AC aside, they're actually in some ways ''more'' fragile than they used to be! At least you only have to burn your reaction that you might've wanted to actually use for other important things to make it attack instead of the action you'd almost certainly rather spend on ''eldritch blast''!

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	===Playtest 5===		===Playtest 5===
	tl;dr, martial classes get some nice tweaks that fix a few of their core issues and the new issues raised aren't major, warlock ~~is even more dip fodder for multiclassed classes that want those short rest spell slots than it already was and scales even worse than before~~, and sorcerer, despite a few nice metamagic buffs and one nice unique spell, mostly cries in the ditch as the ''buffed'' wizard smugly eats its lunch.		tl;dr, martial classes get some nice tweaks that fix a few of their core issues and the new issues raised aren't major, warlock lost most of its key selling points, and sorcerer, despite a few nice metamagic buffs and one nice unique spell, mostly cries in the ditch as the ''buffed'' wizard smugly eats its lunch.
	====[[Barbarian]]====		====[[Barbarian]]====
	* Rages got buffed. They now last up to ten minutes, and you can keep them going by forcing saves or spending a bonus action if for some reason you can't put out an attack, which makes them easier to sustain without having to contrive reasons to hurt yourself if you're in a fight but not in a position to either deal or take damage and don't want to lose it.		* Rages got buffed. They now last up to ten minutes, and you can keep them going by forcing saves or spending a bonus action if for some reason you can't put out an attack, which makes them easier to sustain without having to contrive reasons to hurt yourself if you're in a fight but not in a position to either deal or take damage and don't want to lose it.

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2023-06-03T08:50:48Z

Other Changes

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	*Weapons now have a special Weapon Mastery trait, which isn't really useful except for Warriors, who all tend to have access to these traits when fighting. While they're all decent additions of utility, they're still severely lacking when compared to what spells can do.		*Weapons now have a special Weapon Mastery trait, which isn't really useful except for Warriors, who all tend to have access to these traits when fighting. While they're all decent additions of utility, they're still severely lacking when compared to what spells can do.
	**Mastery only works on a set number of weapons as you level up, which...isn't a major issue, but it's still really weird when you could've just had weapon groups.		**Mastery only works on a set number of weapons as you level up, which...isn't a major issue, but it's still really weird when you could've just had weapon groups.
	**The Light property got busted back to the useless trait it was before, which pretty much ruins every use anyone ever had for dual-wielding over Sword-n-Board or Great Weapons.		**The Light property got busted back to the useless trait it was before, which pretty much ruins every use anyone ever had for dual-wielding over Sword-n-Board or Great Weapons unless they get the relevant Mastery trait, which reinstates it.
			*Death saves got re-re-reworked.

	==Licence shenanigans==		==Licence shenanigans==

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2023-06-03T08:50:16Z

Wizard

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	** ''Memorize spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 3 spell that lets you swap off one prepped spell with another you didn't prep, with an extra spell per spell level. Completely removes one of the only weaknesses to playing a wizard in one go.		** ''Memorize spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 3 spell that lets you swap off one prepped spell with another you didn't prep, with an extra spell per spell level. Completely removes one of the only weaknesses to playing a wizard in one go.
	** ''Modify spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 4 spell that lets you tweak a single prepped spell in a ton of different ways until you cast it again or take a long rest. Very poor internal balance; most of them are more fun curiosities than powerful game changers, but the real winners are modifying indiscriminate spells to only affect enemies or allies and modifying concentration spells so that damage can't break concentration on them, both of which absolutely are. Upcasting applies extra effects at a rate of one per level.		** ''Modify spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 4 spell that lets you tweak a single prepped spell in a ton of different ways until you cast it again or take a long rest. Very poor internal balance; most of them are more fun curiosities than powerful game changers, but the real winners are modifying indiscriminate spells to only affect enemies or allies and modifying concentration spells so that damage can't break concentration on them, both of which absolutely are. Upcasting applies extra effects at a rate of one per level.
	** ''Create spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 5 spell that you cast after using ''modify spell'' so you can then cast ''scribe spell'' in order to write your new spell into your spellbook and make as your own. The only thing keeping this from being broken as fuck is the cost, at 1000 gp per spell level, and even then how much money you'll have lying around with nothing better to spend it on than custom versions of powerful concentration spells that you can only be made to stop concentrating on via death or unconsciousness will vary by table and campaign.		** ''Create spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 5 spell that you cast after using ''modify spell'' so you can then cast ''scribe spell'' in order to write your new spell into your spellbook and make as your own. The only thing keeping this from being broken as fuck is the cost, at 1000 gp per spell level, plus two hours per the same from ''scribe spell'', and even then how much money and time you'll have lying around with nothing better to spend it on than custom versions of powerful concentration spells that you can only be made to stop concentrating on via death or unconsciousness will vary by table and campaign.
	* Spell Mastery and Signature Spells both got bumped down several levels, which happened to a lot of things but ''these'' are incredibly powerful abilities and getting them earlier in the late-game is still woof.		* Spell Mastery and Signature Spells both got bumped down several levels, which happened to a lot of things but ''these'' are incredibly powerful abilities and getting them earlier in the late-game is still woof.
	* Evoker (Schools being scrapped to likely save ink for more half-hearted backtracking) now triggers on level 3 like all other subclasses and grants two free Evocation spells to your book, but is largely unchanged, with one exception:		* Evoker (Schools being scrapped to likely save ink for more half-hearted backtracking) now triggers on level 3 like all other subclasses and grants two free Evocation spells to your book, but is largely unchanged, with one exception:

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2023-06-03T08:34:31Z

Wizard

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	** ''Modify spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 4 spell that lets you tweak a single prepped spell in a ton of different ways until you cast it again or take a long rest. Very poor internal balance; most of them are more fun curiosities than powerful game changers, but the real winners are modifying indiscriminate spells to only affect enemies or allies and modifying concentration spells so that damage can't break concentration on them, both of which absolutely are. Upcasting applies extra effects at a rate of one per level.		** ''Modify spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 4 spell that lets you tweak a single prepped spell in a ton of different ways until you cast it again or take a long rest. Very poor internal balance; most of them are more fun curiosities than powerful game changers, but the real winners are modifying indiscriminate spells to only affect enemies or allies and modifying concentration spells so that damage can't break concentration on them, both of which absolutely are. Upcasting applies extra effects at a rate of one per level.
	** ''Create spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 5 spell that you cast after using ''modify spell'' so you can then cast ''scribe spell'' in order to write your new spell into your spellbook and make as your own. The only thing keeping this from being broken as fuck is the cost, at 1000 gp per spell level, and even then how much money you'll have lying around with nothing better to spend it on than custom versions of powerful concentration spells that you can only be made to stop concentrating on via death or unconsciousness will vary by table and campaign.		** ''Create spell'' is an exclusive always-prepped level 5 spell that you cast after using ''modify spell'' so you can then cast ''scribe spell'' in order to write your new spell into your spellbook and make as your own. The only thing keeping this from being broken as fuck is the cost, at 1000 gp per spell level, and even then how much money you'll have lying around with nothing better to spend it on than custom versions of powerful concentration spells that you can only be made to stop concentrating on via death or unconsciousness will vary by table and campaign.
			* Spell Mastery and Signature Spells both got bumped down several levels, which happened to a lot of things but ''these'' are incredibly powerful abilities and getting them earlier in the late-game is still woof.
	* Evoker (Schools being scrapped to likely save ink for more half-hearted backtracking) now triggers on level 3 like all other subclasses and grants two free Evocation spells to your book, but is largely unchanged, with one exception:		* Evoker (Schools being scrapped to likely save ink for more half-hearted backtracking) now triggers on level 3 like all other subclasses and grants two free Evocation spells to your book, but is largely unchanged, with one exception:
	** Potent Cantrip now makes missed attacks deal half-damage, which makes you a lot more useful as a spell-turret.		** Potent Cantrip now makes missed attacks deal half-damage, which makes you a lot more useful as a spell-turret.