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Fair enough. For myself, I've found I tire of a system after so many years playing it. I've reached that point with 3e/PF and find myself coming full circle, longing for something fast and loose and, dare I say, AD&D-ish. Good luck with your publishing efforts.

I remember Tide of Iron. Not a bad Fighter power at all. However I remember thinking many times, "This enemy should not be getting automatically pushed. This power wouldn't work in this situation. I wish I could just say no it doesn't work without my buddy thinking I'm crapping on his cool...

I thought of two examples illustrating why not having combat maneuvers as class powers is a good thing: "My Fighter Trip power gets me a free attack on anything I trip - therefore - I try to trip as often as possible" -versus- "The Orc Chieftain is standing on the table smashing the heads of...

Frequently, they start at level 1, then really get cooking and detonate the game around 6th.

This seems an oddly stubborn and dogmatic position to take. Are you saying if WotC produced a D&D game that you liked better than Pathfinder, you would refuse to buy/play it out of sheer hostility towards the company itself? I don't know what terrible thing WotC could have done to you to cause...

This is my hope as well. I'd like to see the baseline versions of all the classes have as many abilities as possible be hidden and baked into the class - not as actions to be used on your turn. The tactical maneuver fighter is fine as an option, but I hope the game assumes the simple fighter to...

No. Deciding which spell to use has always been part of the DnD experience, and since they are a daily resource, they get used once and then go away. IMO they add to the narrative with a splashy effect that is exciting and relatively infrequent.

I definitely prefer 3e to 4e, but I've reached my Pathfinder threshold and am rather tired of it. It's just too complex and tedious. Plus my heart I think longs for something like the edition I played when I started playing - 2e. I'm ready for something simple, fast and easy. I hope D&D Next...

I can't say I'm a fan of option bloat for really any character. Where every turn the player scrolls through a menu of available powers. It slows down the game and puts the player's attention on the character sheet, rather than the narrative scene that is being described.

I really hope they don't have hard (and exploitable) rules for tripping/proning. That was one bit of immersion kryptonite I was hoping we'd be free of in Next.

I am perfectly fine with a tactical fighter, but I worry about power creep. D&D Next, with its focus on Bounded Accuracy and Static Defenses, seemed to be a conscious step away from the breakneck power-progression of 3e and 4e. I was hoping for a game with somewhat fragile low level characters...

While being physically more powerful than Drow, I always understood Driders to be more akin to a semi-mindless, tortured Frankenstein's Monster. A freak rather than a favored being.

Blue Dragons as 'Desert Dragons' always irritated me more than anything else in just about all of D&D.

I played through 30 levels of 4th Edition and was unaware of this - and I was even more unaware it was a criticism of 4e.

Prestige classes? Do we really need them? You can already customize your character across race, class, subclass, multi-class, background and feats. 6 variables already. I'd say put prestige classes into feats with specific prerequisites.

Either you miss the point - or you are using some not-so-subtle sarcasm to agree with Obryn. In any case, my Dwarf using his greataxe to behead a prone orc bypasses nothing, nor does it rewrite physics, nor does it let me do something impossible. It's perfectly, mundanely, believable - that D&D...

I actually agree with you in principle. But please let's not go back to having non-casters being able to daze and stun whenever they want. Keeping debilitating status effects confined to the spell pen just saves so much time and misery for the DM. This isn't so much as a call for realism as it...

Burst of Stamina: You may spend a hit dice to make one extra melee attack on your turn, however the attack is made with disadvantage. You must take a rest before you can use this action again. Fighter's Stamina (Fighter ability): when you use the 'Burst of Stamina' action, you do not suffer...

I don't know enough about it to argue differently. You could be right, but it seems to run counter to the whole idea of protecting the value of your investment and intellectual property. Some have said the OGL was bad for WotC in the long term. Others (like you) say it's a win-win. I still say...

4e was a failed experiment, the New Coke of D&D. Half the customers disliked it and went back to Classic Coke. While 4e was an expedition into uncharted territory, 5e is a return to the familiar. I don't think the two are comparable really at all. That said, I have no idea how long it will last...