D&D (2024) When are we getting the second playtest document?

[Ancalagon]

Hello

I'm pretty sure that the playtest document is just the first of several. Does anyone know when the next one is coming out? Will it be for classes? Feats?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Hello

I'm pretty sure that the playtest document is just the first of several. Does anyone know when the next one is coming out? Will it be for classes? Feats?

I was about to ask the same thing this very minute. (les grands esprits de rencontrent!)

 

[Charlaquin]

They said packets would be approximately once a month, but that it wasn’t a set schedule. So, probably soon, but also maybe not. We won’t really know when it will be until it drops, unless they announce it in advance. No word yet on what it will contain either, though some folks have speculated that they might be doing one class per packet, based on the fact that one class per packet once a month or so would line up with the 12 to 18 months time frame.

 

[MarkB]

At the very least they'll want to wait until the current survey closes on the 15th, to prevent contamination of the results.

 

[Ibrandul]

At the very least they'll want to wait until the current survey closes on the 15th, to prevent contamination of the results.

Perhaps. But WotC has no idea how to design and conduct a survey, so who knows?

Proof positive: the “rate each spell individually” survey from a while back listed each spell in alphabetical order, in the same order for every respondent. In a very long survey like that one, where respondents answer the same question dozens of times about different items, a nonrandomized question order guarantees skewed results, with the alphabetically later entries getting less attention, less thorough and less well-considered feedback, and more negative ratings. Survey Design 101, day one; WotC flunked.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I am betting Thursday when the Survey for the first UA closes.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I crave more hopefully stuff that matters to me more.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I crave more hopefully stuff that matters to me more.

Well the next one is probably going to be classes.

 

[Haplo781]

Well the next one is probably going to be classes.

And hopefully where we'll see some significant changes.

 

[MarkB]

Proof positive: the “rate each spell individually” survey from a while back listed each spell in alphabetical order, in the same order for every respondent. In a very long survey like that one, where respondents answer the same question dozens of times about different items, a nonrandomized question order guarantees skewed results, with the alphabetically later entries getting less attention, less thorough and less well-considered feedback, and more negative ratings. Survey Design 101, day one; WotC flunked.

On the other hand, you'll get that fatigue no matter what order the list is in, and at least if WotC know which order you rated them in, they can account for it.