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Many who critised missing realism did not do so about the rules system but about the adventures preented (hello huge hydra in a smallish room with only normal doors).

Thanks for all the answers, especially to jsaving. Browsing the playtest documents they didn't seem contain too much of 4e in it, but while that may be a wrong feeling, it seems to be shared by many others. I think the reason for this is that WotC gives the impression that D&Dnext is not a...

I expected for D&Dnext to keep the sharp concise 4e rules of the abilities/spells in battle and add more "roleplayish" rules to them to use out of battle basically being a sequel to 4e with a homage to 3e added on making this somehow possible by a genius strike of rules design. But instead...

+1 to Emerikol I don't play game systems, I play adventures, and while 4e might give me a very good game system, it just doesn't give me very good adventures. However I sympathize with the OP because the ones that don't like 4e have Pathfinder and, so it seems, 5e. What do the ones that love...

OP is spot on. Even before 4e was realesed there were a lot of people that played a "4e-ish" style of D&D with a focus on battlemat combat and houserules to match while the rest was having also different styles that only had in common that battlemat combat were not the main focus. So, no...

To answer some of your questions: Minecraft is really what you make it. The almost total freedom in reshaping the world as you see fit is what drives this game. The mobs are really just to spice things up a bit now and then and give you a sense of accomplishment early on. After you secured...

GW2 is not really "non-scripted". These events are scripted just like everything, they just run at their own cycle (over and over) rather than waiting for the player to start. In this regard I fail to see any connection to D&D, where events are of course not scripted and, more importantly, the...

Good Adventures. Really, I did not leave 4e behind because I thought it was beyond redemption (although some of my players did think exactly that) but because the published adventure were like pieces of s**t compared to paizos APs. So going PF was simply much easier if I wanted to have good...

Right, it does because you can't assess "balance" between the classes based on the informations that are given to us in the playtest documents. Of what we see the power levels of all classes as presented seem about even.

Yeah funny, how much the name of the most famous of all the Gorgons stuck and is now used instead the "real" racial name. Happens all the time I guess (in German the name "Jeep" is often used for All Terrain Vehicles with most people not knowing that it is actually a brand).

Monsters are adversaries. Dumbing them down for the sake of easy to run combat means making them mere loot bags. In my book a powerful Lich Wizard should have it's plethora of spells and not just 3-4 combat powers and thats it. D&D should happen outside of combat as well, 4e forgot that!

Medusa petrifying with a gaze is classy and not at all a problem. Automatically able to avert eyes is elegant. Maybe being hosed if the Medusa has surprise is fine - unless a jerk DM does it 24/7. Really this is not a design problem, the 4e Medusa was!

For all characters there is a "best" way of speccing for Boss/Grind fights. Most of the skills never see they light of use because others are clearly leaps and bounds better in any and all situations. So, 5 years of development and balancing and the result is ... this?! I have the distinct...

So far WotC kind of promised to make everyone (3.5 lovers and 4e lovers) happy and iron out some persistant flaws of both approaches along the way. This suspiciously sounds like a promise to make everyone happy. So I guess, me being part of everyone, the answer is "yes, I will" by default ;)

Outside of organized play the word "optional" has no meaning. Either the Dm allows it or not, period. In regards to 5e I always assumed that there will be optional rules that replce basic rules for more flavor and possibilities. So an option in 5e would not be a new class or more skills but...