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Ha, lots of owls, noticed that last night. For me, the pleasant surprise was the sheer number of options that look fun to play. The number of permutations available through choices of class and sub-class alone is great, more than any other PHB. I was concerned that many options would be weak...

I think the answer is always going to be "it depends". Some tables don't get a chance to rest, some do. The thing is, if there is a warlock in the group, there will be more incentive to do so when there is the opportunity. Same with other classes that benefit from short rests, though I don't...

Some observations: It's a small sample size, because as folks have pointed out, not a lot of people have access to the PHB yet. So some of this can be taken with a grain of salt. I'll recreate the poll after it closes. Wizards are looking popular with 13 votes. It's interesting that they...

Bard. He's a lover not a fighter.

Mike Mearls confirmed on twitter that 1st level characters still get 1 hit die back after a long rest. So it's something that they should probably clarify in an errata. https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/485449078898057216

I love options. The only issue I ever had with these books is with 4e DnD Insider. Having _all_ the options in an electronic format slowed down character creation to a crawl, made it more likely to have unbalanced options, encouraged min/maxing a bit too much for my tastes, and put me in a...

There fixed it for ya.

BaDOOOOOOOM!!!! Oh, you want more detail. There are two subclasses, called origins for the sorcerer: draconic bloodline and wild magic. There is a preview of sorcerer here. And there is a preview of wild magic here. That's about half of it. The other three pages list: A table with...

I am jealous. Been years since I've been to GenCon. If I were going to play, it would be a wizard, maybe a transmuter.

I'll have a go at it. I think domain type spells are the way to go to add a spellcasting subclass. Taking inspiration from the Nature cleric, I think for a Ranger with the Druid archetype, creating a druid domain spells list (modified to start at ranger level 3) would be easy to add to the...

Play an earlier edition, nothing wrong with that. But you could approximate some of that with 5e classes, feats, and skills.

I don't think it will let me, though if an admin can do it, I'd be ok with that. My intention anyway was to get an early glimpse at what people are thinking before they start playing, and there are lots of WPN stores out there. And even if you don't have it yet, there's a lot of information on...

I think when one starts talking in terms of low magic and gritty, or high magic, it gets very subjective. Some people even say you should ban non-humans in such a campaign, others just feel a level cap system works. I wouldn't classify wild shape as any more high magic than anything else, but...

I was curious, because with the spellcasting that rangers get, the idea occurred to me that it might be possible to just merge the two classes, dropping the wildshape, and making druid a third subclass of ranger that focuses on casting spells. I like the idea of using the nature cleric better...

Going to try this again. Forgive me if I do it wrong again; I've done polls before but for some reason I failed last time. Which class do you plan to play first? I've put all the subclasses in there, and you can select up to four, but only do so if you intend to multiclass; for the warlock...

meh, please delete. Tried to make a poll and failed.

Sounds like an idea that would work. Curious what your thoughts are on the ranger itself?

Draconians are one of my favorite monsters, and I think it would be fun to repeat the same evil plot from Dragonlance of stealing metallic dragon eggs, holding them hostage, and secretly corrupting them to create draconians for Tyranny of Dragons. I'm leaning toward using it in an FR influenced...

Thanks, I love this idea too. Looking forward to the MM already. I agree about the monster design, but I think most of my quibbles are small ones.

I wouldn't unless you think you'll definitely use at least parts of it. I bought it because I plan on running it, but I'm still unsure of whether I'll run the whole thing or just steal from it. Stealing bits and pieces from published adventures is a great tactic, but if don't use it all, it's...