Hello again internet. I'm your host Mike Robles and welcome to the D&D podcast. I am joined once again by Rodney and Jeremy. Gentlemen, always a pleasure to have you guys here.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

Thank you.

And hello everyone.

Right, it's been a couple months.

Things have been busy.

We've been, you guys have been super busy with D&D Next and that's one of the major talking points for today's podcast. We're going to talk about the most current playtest. So what's up? What happened?

Let's talk about the newest playtest that just went out.

We just released it yesterday.

Yesterday as of this recording.

Yeah, and this is now our second packet since GenCon.

We released a smaller one at the beginning of this

month and I say smaller but it was actually a lot of material, the magic items.

We gave people pages and pages of magic items and magic item rules to start playing with.

And so yesterday, the focus of it was bringing the classic four classes up to level 10.

And to accomplish that, we not only needed to revise the classes, but then also provide new spells for the

cleric and the wizard, new maneuvers for the fighter, and the rogue.

And now the rogue.

That's one of the changes in this packet as we're experimenting with the rogue also having maneuvers

Also bringing the game up to level 10 required

backing up a truck filled with monsters and unleashing them upon the game.

So Rodney, how many new monsters would you say there are in this packet?

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