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And I dislike each and every game that you just cited. Thank you for reaffirming my suspicions that Radiance is a garbage game.

Comeliness score is one of those pieces of design antiquity that D&D wisely shoveled into a corner in 1st edition, then abandoned in subsequent editions. It's just clutter. If the author the author actually thought including this was a good idea, I can thereby intuit what the rest of the system...

Wouldn't call it a loss.

Looked at the character sheet. Saw Comeliness score. Immediately wrote game off.

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5th edition PHB is currently #1 in books on Amazon. #1 in ALL books. Not just gaming. Not just sci-fi/fantasy. All books.

The answer is the moon!

To be fair, movie stars don't jealously guard the status quo of the universe...nor can they scry and teleport several times a day.

I'd prefer either Mystara or Greyhawk personally.

That's handy. I guess I'm going with my local scene as a barometer for D&D5 buzz. My group unilaterally rejected the game during the public playtest, and I haven't heard anyone in my town talking about it much, but I've been getting excited lately for the new edition. I'll just start up a group...

I poo-poo'd the playtest rules a lot last year, but the game has been growing on me more and more lately. I think that the game just might be the updated BECMI/RC D&D I've been wanting. I foresee running the full-on Advanced D&D games alongside heavily hacked Basic D&D games. My one concern...

That's 4E, which is an entirely separate beast. I would actually prefer something closer to 4E's approach to wild magic as opposed to rolling on a universe random effects chart.

You're right on the first point. We know that sorcerers work by spending points to add metamagic effects to the spells they cast, per Mike Mearls' L&L article about sorcerers. It could very well be that rolling on the random table is how the chaos sorcerer gains these points. Anyway, chaos...

Best of luck with that. It means more work for you every time they cast a spell, which is the Sorcerer's primary function, and less spotlight time for the other PC's since the game inevitably becomes about the antics of the random table twins.

Yeeeah....no Chaos Sorcerers at my table.

So henchmen are the ones who get sent down dungeon corridors to set off traps?

Then what function do hirelings serve in the game?

Well sure, that design space could be explored for more than just fixing a problem that few players have with the game. I would like to see something like this for a competitive sandbox type game where each player controls a party of characters that undertake different missions in opposition to...

I don't like this style of play, personally. In my opinion, these assumptions turn players characters into risk averse cowards who callously send hirelings to their deaths in pursuit of treasure. I understand that this is a character archetype that some people enjoy, but it really seems to be...

You know...I felt like listening to "Teenage Riot" the other day, so I looked it up on youtube. I haven't gotten around to buying it on itunes, and all my CD's are collecting dust in the attic. Anyway, I read the comments thread and one guy was lamenting how kids have only heard of Sonic Youth...