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I must say, if they ditch 4th ed's "leader characters can heal as a minor action", they are crazy. I very much hope healers are optional - you should be able to recover from hit-point loss in a few minutes so you can continue adventures and the story can acquire momentum. Actually being...

Incidentally, I think characters from 3rd and 4th ed actually get too many feats. I'd like to see characters have maybe five or so, with access to more powerful ones as you level up. Having approaching twenty feats by end-game seems a bit over the top to me, not to mention the dozens of class...

Yeah, I'd like to see the choice each time you level between gaining a power from your theme, your race OR your class. So if the defining aspect of your dwarf fighter noble is his noble bearing, you could get a ton of features from the "noble" theme, but still have enough fighterness to do your...

Abomination.

God, I hope not. I intended to run some C&C last weekend from a friend's books, and after reading some of it I just got bogged down in some of the old stuff that D&D used to do that sucks: Rolled hitpoints - Haha, your fighter has 4 HP and there's nothing you did wrong! Rolled ability scores -...

Ugh, I'd hoped rolling ability scores was dead and buried, but here it comes again to blight a new edition!

From what I've read, I think the idea is for wizards to have at-will powers they cast every round, so you're not "twiddling your thumbs", but then on say round 3 your fireball goes off and destroys all the weaker monsters in the room. From here on in is presumption, but I presume that you...

I disagree with attrition-based D&D - I want to be able to have five fights a day, or one fight a day, with each having equal danger and challenge. I'd like to see all resources like daily spells (and this includes vancian magic) and daily healing surges go away, but I'd be fine with them...

Personally I'd like to see the wizard class broken up like the druid was in 4e. Give us a battlemage who basically casts nothing but damage spells. Give us an enchanter who has all the mind control and illusions. Give us the bladesinger who's a melee combatant and has all his spells go towards...

Raising magic should go. It's lame when NPCs do it, it's lame when PCs do it. The only way anyone should come back from the dead is if their buddy gets Death in a headlock and makes him give the dead one back.

An "Aragorn-style" ranger is a warrior-woodsman. He can track, fight, and knows herb-lore. That's it. Note that you don't have to start specifying what weapons he uses, or his fighting style. In my experience the worst-written characters are the ones whose writers begin their descriptions with...

I think one issue third ed had was that the class balance was inconsistent depending on what level you were playing at. It was pretty much built-in to the system intentionally that if you were a spellcaster you were generally worse than mundane classes at low-levels, but that if you "got...

Because we've got quite a lot of misinformation and people saying stuff like, "I don't know the specifics, but I know I don't like it!" in this thread, I guess I'll clear up how this actually worked in 4e. You have 3 classes of power: At-will, encounter, daily. At level 1, you pick your...

I think the real weirdness is that since everyone hits level 9 pretty much at the same time, the DM has to pull five excuses for everyone acquiring real estate out of his ass at the exact same time. "Yes, everyone's rich old aunts all died at the same time! Now can we move on?"

Levels are such a metagame concept that getting an "in-world" reward for them seems inappropriate. If you clear out a derelict keep at level 1, can't you have it as your stronghold? If you never stay in one place for more than five minutes at level 20, should you have one at all? I'd say...

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This stopped working as your level increased - +2 to attack is alright at level 1 when enemies have 14 AC, but by level 10 the enemies now have 23 AC and you're only on +7 to attack. Of course, by then the party's fighter has left and the player's made a cleric, druid or wizard, so I suppose he...

I always thought that the default D&D split of "ranged warrior" and "melee warrior" and very few people are equally useful at both, was a bit of a missed opportunity really. I'd like to see encounters where people use their ranged weapons until battle is joined, then they're tossed aside and...

I must say, I was always a fan of the themes they put into 4e that allowed you to swap out any powers you liked from your class with "race-themed" ones. So if you're playing a dwarf cleric, you might swap out your cure light wounds spell for "dwarven endurance" or some such power. It was a nice...

Agreed - I had this reaction also.