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Now that we've talked about everything important from the second packet, it's time for a thread about incredibly petty things from the playtest that bug you. As in, you'd deserve to get snarked at if you ever called them dealbreakers. 1. I hate 3 foot tall halflings. Seriously. I know this...

Your background gives you skills, and your specialty gives you feats. That's the way the second playtest packet works. As of yet there is no official option to pick your feats and skills (and backround traits--this applies to them as well) a la carte, piecing together your own "background" or...

Now that we've actually seen the text, I must say, I'm pretty impressed with the basic mundane healing mechanic. It seems like an excellent compromise between 4e healing surges and older, less metagamey mechanics. First, the rules clearly state that hit points are an abstraction, and suggest...

I’ve seen a lot of fighting about skills, but not much about feats as such. That scares me because I tremble for the fate of feats in D&D Next much more than for the fate of skills. Basically, I like feats. Putting all manner of little extra abilities in a special class of their own, where they...