Warmup: Tanner to JustinIntro

Dungeons and Dragons is evolving. Wizards of the Coast has come out with some major announcements in the last few weeks and today, we’re going to talk about them.

Welcome back to How to Be a Better DM. I’m your host, Tanner Weyland, here with my cohort Justin Lewis. Together, we are going to learn how to craft better stories for you and your players as you DM sessions of D&D 5e and soon-to-be OneD&D (more on that later). Before we get to the meat of our conversation, let’s go through some housekeeping items.

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Main Content: Wizards of the Coast Presents - The Facts

1. Wizards will be releasing OneD&D in 2024.
2. OneD&D will be created on the foundation of 5e but with input from the players
3. OneD&D will have a virtual engine created from the Unreal Engine to help facilitate online play
4. OneD&D Playtest material will be available periodically on DnDBeyond. 
5. Now and beyond will be releasing digital/physical bundles
6. Races changed to “backgrounds,” and the feats differentiate them.
7. New race added, kind of the opposite of teaflings.
8. Spelljammer is now released which are sourcebook for D&D in space.
9. New resources for DragonLance will be released including a new companion board game that can be used to play through war scenarios.
10. Initial Rule changes:
11. Nat 20 automatically succeeds.
12. No Monster/DM crit attacks.
13. Magic attacks don’t crit, but physical attacks do.

Intermission: Warmup Cont.Main Content Cont: Wizards of the Coast Presents - The Opinions

Justin:

Tanner:

Questions for discussion

• Is the Virtual TableTop a good thing?
• Price concerns
• Constraint on creativity
• Push the envelope
• What is the purpose of Crits?
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Conclusion

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