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They're actually pretty positive, and it's clear if you listen for a bit longer that what's basically going on is that they basically streamed this at the end of a work day, shortly after they'd first looked at the rules. Basically, it's a spur-of-the moment thing. Woefully unprepared but...

They also complain that Advantage/Disadvantage isn't explained before the Character Creation bit... when it is, on page 4. It would probably have helped if they had at least read the PDF *up to* character creation first.

Hmm. I'd say that Backgrounds provide quite a lot of mechanics, actually. Two skills, some tools, often languages, a trait. That's a pretty big packet of mechanics.

Through most of the playtest, I ran frequent one-offs in a megacity setting I've been working on. The players were told they could make any character they liked so long as they were a believable member of a thieves' guild. I think this is where I really started to love the 5e chargen system -...

It's pretty clear that 5e is getting a better reception than 4e did, on release... at least, here. There are other fora I read which are much less welcoming, but even in those there are more people being positive than I remember for 4e. It's extremely hard to compare, and I'm almost certainly...

The 5e spell slot system is really (in effect) a variant, non-fungible, non-uniform spell point system. Yes, I admit I'm posting this partially because I don't have an excuse to use the word 'fungible' often enough

It's even going against the RAW: The Shield spell explicitly provides a bonus to AC (not "against an attack") and an immunity to Magic Missile. Nothing else. Well, that doesn't seem to be a thing I'd expect a Fighter to have. There's probably a feat for it, though. Fighters in fiction are...

Why? The entire point of my last post was that lists like that aren't useful, because they pretend that nobody else in the party is able to do anything. In every case on your list, I gave you examples of what a non-wizard could do to solve the situation. In every case on any list I came up with...

Oops. So you did. Um... I was just making sure everyone noticed. Yeah.

Okay, so let's look at your examples. A goblin horde? If it's small enough, a metoer swarm is a good answer. If it's an actual horde, that's only going to take out a few chunks... and you can do it once per day. You'll need something more creative to deal with a full-sized horde, and any...

Shove doesn't require an attack roll. You forego one attack, instead initiating a Strength[Athletics] check against the target's Strength[Athletics] or Dexterity[Acrobatics]. Shield does absolutely nothing to it.

The opportunity cost of a 1st level spell slot is basically nil. I was replying to the supposition that a 20th level wizard is unbeatable because they can burn through every spell slot they have to remain at AC21ish for an entire fight.

AC 21 isn't unhittable. Hell, if you're fighting a level 20 wizard, a fighter could be expected to have a minimum of +11 to hit, +13 if they're an archer. With four attacks (as expected at level 20), anyone with the Archer fighting style would be expected to hit more that twice in a normal...

Good point. Although to be on-topic... I'm sad that you can't get the individual books on their own. I'd only be interested in the spells as a resource, personally. But then, I'm not in the US so there isn't much reason to back for an individual book even if I *could*, since it's been said that...

Opportunity cost. If a character of mine ever made a Wizard use up a 2nd level spell slot in order to turn a hit into a miss, I'd smile. The wizard just used up an opportunity to cast Hold Person, Flaming Spehere, etc. If a Wizard ever used up a 3rd-level slot, I'd celebrate. That's an 8d6...

They said that the Basic PDF will grow into a complete game, as they release more content. However, the rest of the game is still being worked on. They've never said that the Basic Rules that we have right this minute are complete. Expect to get some minimal how-to-run-a-game advice when the...

I know little about US copyright law, but I can't see WotC allowing him to claim that all the material he's copied from the Basic PDF is his copyright, with the names and rules intact. Even the - really dodgy looking - "trick" where he's claiming that every word in a wordlist, plus all the...

Hmm. This will make the Battlemaster (or whatever they end up calling it) Fighter really quite powerful - since they can use their abilities to knock people prone as part of another attack (and do more damage, as well). (The plausibly-real leaked pages that have been linked to on rpg.net make...

... you know, I don't see an issue there. Hold Person in 5e is concentration-based, which means your 20th-level Wizard can only Hold one Person at a time. There will be disruption mechanics for that, so the rest of the party can attempt to free them. They can't cast it on the entire party and...

The problem is that you declared - in effect - that a number of the posters on this board (and a proportion of the wider community) either don't exist, have a number of false memories or are liars. This is the sort of statement that people can take exception to; I'm presuming that you didn't...