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That would be fine, but lets not make it TOO adult. Either in theme obviously or in tone more generally. For an example I recently visited a group that was looking for players. We had a nice night of boardgaming "to get to know each other" drinking and generally BSing about gaming. All good...

I'm a little curious. Since it seems that anything critical of 4e is "edition bashing" and anything critical of previous editions is just fine no matter the tone. So is there some clear rule or is just a knee jerk defense of the current edition because its the current one and we can expect the...

I believe the goal of 5th edition is make lots of money. Everything else is secondary.

Nah, someone would say it sucks and the engine isnt as good as a windmill and we would be right back where we started.

Nostalgia carried D&D for 40 years. 4e killed it in 3. We WIN. /end topic.

Because most of us grew up playing D&D and have fond memories of it. We would like it to NOT suck and continue tarnishing our memories. Admin here. This is a great example of edition warring, folks, and it's something we don't want to see. Avoid this kind of statement, please. -- Piratecat

yes, yes it is obvious.

Arguing about previous editions is GOOD for the project and the community. People should talk about what they liked and what they didnt and compare. The hobby is helped by discussion and sometimes even rancorous debate. If we didnt have people arguing about whats best in a ruleset we would...

The one key difference is that I'm right and they were wrong. As evidenced by sales figures and them kicking 4e to the curb faster then a diseased wino who they found breaking into their garage.

skills and feats customizable monsters the sorcerer prestige classes DR spontaneous heal switching everything based on time not gamist notions like encounter I also agree with Lanefan that ALL casters should function like the sorcerer.

Not to be defeatist here but especially with recent company developments I find the "one edition to unite them all" laughable. I mean they are still blogging about healing surges for gods sake...... Whats left there is the same team that a few years ago told 60% or so of the gaming community...

I think every race should be as different as possible, including with penalties. I think 4th and even 3rd in a lot of ways went too far to make all the demi-humans into humans in funny clothes. Even 2 pts of ability score difference is an absolutely piffling nothing compared to all the...

I'd like to see BOTH systems take a long walk off a short cliff. But if i had to pick between the 2 of them vancian is better. the powers system just doesnt feel magical at all and far, far, too limiting.

Personally i would solve the HP "bug" but giving away many fewer HP as players leveled up. Start out with Con=HP add a static 1-4 HP per level and your done with those numbers. If you want you can have 0 HP mean your out of stamina, luck, whatever by having a small critical hit chart that only...

My timeline is thus.... Started with AD&D, played it for years, house ruled some stuff i didnt like (thac0, turn undead) and had no intention of updating to 3e.... Till one of my players bought the books, liked them and convinced me to at least read them and see if he loaned them to me...

if you have to duck my points in this way then I win. Kind of like in WWE when one wrestler is out of the ring for a 10 count. You bailed. I win. What more is there for me on this topic?

or just fix monsters so that they follow the same system as players and let really bad ass monsters be. Because they are REALLY BAD ASS MONSTERS and you shouldnt mess with them. Theres a reason in mythology it took really epic heroes to handle things like Grendel, the Medusa and the Minotaur.

Its not even just that. The old games had almost no customization at all unless you were a wizard. These are the people who complain that power attack is "too complicated and slows down a round". And a battlemat "destroys the immersion". They're from another planet completely compared to what...

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I love point buy systems, they absolutely ARE D&D and are almost certainly what the designers are using anyway. However I expect what they will try to do is to take a little of 1e, a little of pathfinder, a little of 4e and blend it to together into a horrible mess that no one really likes...