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I'm strongly in the "optional rules in VERY CLEAR sidebars" or preferably, if there are enough of them "in their own book".
That might be closer than we think!It's the 21st century. I want the optional rules at my fingertips (and the fingertips of everyone in the group). I want to check boxes and slide dials to tune the game to the everyone's taste for whatever campaign we're planning, and then I want the e-PHB/DMG to generate a customized one-volume rule book for me and my friends.
Oh, I really do need to be careful what I wish for."ChatGPT, create a tabletop roleplaying game that uses the following 5th Edition D&D rules options and variants: spell points, feats, multiclassing, small-sized dwarves, intelligence-based initiative, no alignment, spell mishaps, damage reduction for armor..."
I was under the impression that almost no one read the DMG from cover to cover.But in 2023, it's a bit pointless. Every gamer reads every book from cover to cover.
What you mean feats should have never been optional? The only make or break for me to decide if I'm going to adhere to the 2024 ruleset is the optionality of feats.Optional rules should be DMG material.
Feats, should never have been optional.
Stuff that is actually player facing (classes, subclasses, feats, backgrounds, etc) should never be DMG, because that introduces a question of 'official' or 'legitimate' that just makes things annoying.
What you mean feats should have never been optional? The only make or break for me to decide if I'm going to adhere to the 2024 ruleset is the optionality of feats.
I really hope they include the option to play without feats in the new PHB.
I would put point buy as default and array as suggestion of the said point buy. And rolling to come with disclaimer that it can severely unbalance the game if used.Yes. I would make the array standard in the Players Handbook, and move dice-rolls and point-buy to the DMs Guide as variants.
(I assume many tables will continue to use point-buy and dice-rolls in the manner to which they are accustomed. And the DMs Guide will legitimize these as "official variants".)