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I agree with what's been said by the rest of the thread, that there's no need for the huge volley of subraces we got in the 3.5 splat material. 5-6 is more than enough per race, and I can't personally imagine myself running a campaign setting with "Aquatic", "Arctic", "Desert", "Jungle" and...

Wasn't there a big hullabaloo over the fact that Mearls had said Kender and Dragonborn would be in the next packet? Or am I misremembering and he had just said they would be in the final game?

I'm not sure I agree. I mean, players absolutely can be just as much edition warriors as any DM; but the emphasis is definitely on can. Realistically, the vast majority of D&D players out there are casual players. They don't have the same commitment to the hobby that us forumites have - they...

Must spread XP around, etc., etc. There's a distinction, though, between "rigid silo of what your character can do" (fixed class abilities), "flexible silo of what your character can do" (picking from a buffet of class abilities ala PF), and "classless system" (choose from any level...

I'm not disagreeing; everything you say is absolutely true. That said, the fact that they're taking care to make the "Manual of the Planes" cosmology mirror Planescape's (with the addition of the Feywild & Shadowfell) along with the referencing of "the five most popular settings" just makes me...

I'm not sure every new wave of Tweets from Mearls deserves its own thread, so here are the post-Gencon posts. They shed a lot of light on what we can expect in and after the final packet. TL;DR Summary: Multiclassing rules are confirmed for the last packet (I'd actually feared otherwise). The...

Have they really been trying to get rid of skills, though? They've been trying to ensure a skill system is entirely optional, the same as feats, but they've never said anything to give me the impression they haven't wanted skills to be available in the game.

Really? If anything, I'd gotten the exact opposite sense from it. I mean, they want to make sure the return to the Great Wheel cosmology doesn't automatically enforce Planescape on DMs who don't like that "Hey, you got your Planescape in my Forgotten Realms!" "Hey, you got your Forgotten Realms...

No, wait, I've got a better idea! That's not a horse.

But isn't that his point? That the products they put out have to be products he's interested in buying? Supporting a product you have no interest in seems... counter-productive. I mean yeah, if you're particularly passionate about "Splatbook XIV - Splat's Revenge", then by all means, purchase...

Pretty much; and 18 years later you'll still see message board arguments between those who think Skills & Powers was great and those who thought it was despicable and refused to have anything to do with it. I reckon most of the former group moved on to 3.0 and most of the later make up today's...

Hands down the thing I love most about Next is it's baked-in ability to support different playstyles. Whether it will be flexible enough or not at release to support OSR, 3.5 / Pathfinder and 4E players all at the same table is one thing - some things have to be decided in favor of one playstyle...

Statler: That MC Killzalot sure is a great rapper! Waldorf: Well so am I, Statler! Statler: What?! Waldorf: Sure! Hey, you wanna hear me rap? Statler: Only if you sing tenor. Waldorf: Tenor? Statler: Ten or eleven miles away! HA HA HA HA HA!

Isn't that what the Standard game is supposed to be, though?

Except, as a Pathfinder fan, I DO want things from 4E. Not all of them, obviously, or I would play 4E. But off the top of my head: 1. 4E style prep-time compared to 3.5 style prep time 2. self-contained 4E-style stat blocks instead of 3.5 style stat blocks referencing spells in the PHB 3. 4E...

And I'm one of them. Last year a group of friends decided they all wanted to "play D&D", and as I was DMing and pretty much the only one interested in the system (my group is all casual players, none of whom even own any books), I elected to go with Pathfinder. Not because it's my one and only...

Actually, I don't think you need to worry so much about this. What we saw in the first few packets was the designers trying to iron out the Basic rules and decide where they were going to go with the game. Mearls has mentioned assigning mechanics "green", "yellow" and "red" ratings depending on...

You and I are in a similar boat. I currently DM Pathfinder for a group consisting of nothing but casual players - I'm literally the only one at the table who has read any of the books, let alone owns any of them. They're all great roleplayers, reasonably intelligent people who enjoy cutting down...

This. A thousand times this. We're seeing exactly what we should have been expecting to see at this point in the process. When the math fixes in this L&L make their way into a packet, they'll get plenty of feedback on what still needs to be tweaked and have plenty of time to implement it and...