Sounds like this will very much be in the vein of “5.5” plus adding some digital tools that look pretty cool, though I have very little confidence in Hasbro getting it right.
Here’s a direct link to the first batch of playtest material for anyone curious. My initial takeaways are that it allows mixed racial backgrounds easily and there’s a much greater emphasis on feats than 5e.
It wasnt until played lancer that i realized just how fucking awful the target numbers and modifiers to rolls are in DND. Here I thought that I just fucking hated d20 systems when the reality was the math was all fucked up.