AZRogue said:It's been confirmed that Int does modify AC. Dex is linked with Int, Strength is linked with Con, and Wisdom is linked with Charisma. You use the highest of these scores when determining certain things. Like AC.
Oh, and you get no modifiers at all applied to AC, from ability scores, when in Heavy Armor.
jaelis said:Insight, what did you think of the game? Was it fun? Was it still "dnd"?
Insight said:It was definitely still D&D, and I've been playing D&D since 1st ed (~ 1983).
To me, what makes a game "D&D" is what you do, not how you do it. For example, the preview adventures were the same sort of things you'd do in 3rd ed, 2nd ed, 1st ed. No change there. The 'how' was obviously different, and that's the whole point of having a new rules edition.
I had a LOT more fun than I might have had in 3rd ed. The reason for this is the surgical removal of a lot of meaningless minutiae that tend to drag down a game's pace. A minutiaectomy, if you will. We were able to move things along very quickly, so much so that in one of our "delves", we got through 3 encounters in 30 minutes! Try doing that in 3rd ed.
Insight said:To me, what makes a game "D&D" is what you do, not how you do it. For example, the preview adventures were the same sort of things you'd do in 3rd ed, 2nd ed, 1st ed. No change there. The 'how' was obviously different, and that's the whole point of having a new rules edition.