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Legendary actions We definitely need to see the rules on Legendary Actions. It seems to me that it's not saying it gets a legendary action every time someone else has taken an action, but rather that is the timing trigger, like the shield spell has a reaction of when someone else attacks you or...

Funny Yeah, that would be hilarious, but I figure it's like an elephant, only larger, jumping is out of it's league. On the other hand, it can definitely rear up. Although that picture has to make you wonder. :p

Alignment? Except of course for the unintelligent, like all the animals have been since the beginning. Along those lines, it have an intelligence of 3. It's a freaking eating machine of titanic proportions. It doesn't use tactics, it doesn't negotiate, it has no morals. It's a giant monstrous...

Plot hooks. I'm late to this conversation, but I'll throw in a couple of copper. As it seems to be written, it's a plot hook for the party, but is of no real benefit to the PC, and possibly a hindrance if it's one of those that will get you hunted down. Now if it was some kind of secret that...

The can in that statement is merely indicating the possibility that the d20 will roll 1 and thus activate a Wild Magic Surge, there is NO option to avoid rolling. The Tides of Chaos almost guarantees there will eventually be a Wild Magic Surge, but it's totally at the whim of the GM. After...

Mine are loving it. They pretty much turned the tables on the opponents by using some planning, tactics, stealth, and luck, though I think it was a bit close for a couple of them more than once. The bugbear didn't stand a chance, but that'll happen when you get crit'd by the rogue with a...

Interesting Then somehow I must have missed that one. Too bad, I really wanted to see the non-tolkien stuff. Well, too late now, and besides, stuff that's only in the last test usually doesn't get as much quality feedback beyond initial impression. I'm not worried about it though, I intend...

Tiefling in playtest. I won't bet on that, none of my playtest packets had the tiefling or dragonborn in them.

Thanks for Ashonn Thanks again for Ashonn, I really wanted to see that one. :)

To shave, or not to shave, that might be a dwarf. Meh. That depends on the campaign setting. Maybe you'd like Discworld where all Dwarves have beards, and are both referred to and treated as being of the male gender. The matter of a Dwarfs gender is a major taboo. To all the other races, it...

Expected. I'd say the list of races are mostly what was expected. Though I was kind of wondering if the Half-Elfs and Half-Orcs were going to end up as Human subtypes, but that obviously didn't happen. (Really low probability, but we've seen stranger things from them.) Can't wait to see what...

Ashonn missing from Iconics The character of Ashonn is described in the Iconics section, he's the venetian star knight, but there's no character sheet for him. (I many have mis-spelled some things in this post.)

Then that's odd, the bookmarks don't seem to show for me, and I'm actually using the Adobe PDF reader. I totally expect it to change, and probably a LOT. Still if you have the source document and a decent office suite, it has a neat tool to make a ToC for you automatically. Hopefully it was an...

The Basic Rules has been released, and much to my chagrin it has neither Table of Contents nor Index. So I've made a basic one page Table of Contents with the stuff I hope will be most helpful to as many people as possible, new or old players. It's not perfect, but it should help people find...

Fantasy realism As you are looking through the pages of the new D&D Basic 5th edition, a white dragon silently lands behind you and peers over your shoulder for a moment. You feel a sudden chill as the great scaled creature whispers in your ear with a chuckle, "Funny aren't they. Next thing...

Rogues and skills Rogues and skills have been an oddball pretty much since skills had been added to the game. The erudite wizard that's expected to be the font of knowledge on everything from ancient languages, everything from other planes, the secrets of the lost civilizations, how to read a...

Jumping & Flying Boots of Striding & Springing: I'm going to guess that jumping those long distances with magic boots will be treated as an alternate form of movement. I vaguely remember that there was a section on how to handling multiple movement modes. So the jumping is a greater distance...

Magic Item sizing I'm pretty sure they'll say that magic items of apparel resize to fit wearer unless it says otherwise in the description. That's pretty much an old standard in D&D from way back. Otherwise you get either lots of rolling to see in an item is even wearable by a character, or...

attuned items An actual example item that needs attunement would have been nice. Maybe in a later release, and if not, there's always the actual launch on the 15th. (3rd for some people.)

Phandalin Tourist Council, aka Old Fred after a couple of pints Come visit our Shrine of Luck, rabbits feet and quadleaf clover all half off, unless they're starting to go off, then it's in the rubbish with em. Don't forget the Miner's Exchange. When you're miner is getting worn down and has a...