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I don't disagree the buzz is important, but much of that buzz is just the static of several thousand first glances. And there's certainly no test to prevent people without in-play experience from buzzing away. As a 4e non-fan, I don't think it's taking sides to say that most of the negative...

Nope, nor do I have any intention to. If I were going to run another 5e one shot, I wouldn't use the current packet. If I were going to try another 5e campaign, I... well, I just wouldn't. A few one-shots and a failed campaign. Enough for my players to go from "this'll be a great light...

There are certainly some ideas I really like: bounded accuracy, advantage/disadvantage, and attribute bonuses tradable to feats. But I don't feel like even those have been implemented in a way that encourages me to buy the system, let alone be excited about it. For example, bounded accuracy...

Yeah, +4 to +10 would work way better. I was also thinking a flat +5, bumped to +10 with expertise. But I've never really been sure about skills increasing with level. I'd happily go either way as long as the bonuses are large enough to matter. Cheers! Kinak

Glad you like it :) As far as undead, really anything other than the standard skeletons, zombies, or ghosts should do fine. I'd personally lean towards ghouls (appearing in storms on the material plane, swooping down and devouring entire towns) or shadows (cursed skeleton crews are overdone...

Yeah, I hadn't realized either. I did know there was some backlash during 1st edition against the rule, which ended up with two optional workarounds in the DMG, but I hadn't realized they'd also moved up the numbers that much. I have a factoid in the back of my head that says the majority of D&D...

I think you'll do just fine then. If you were comfortable running 1st/2nd and 3rd, I don't think you'll run into any challenges you haven't dealt with before. I absolutely agree on the 40th anniversary thing. My gut suggestion would be core books at GenCon, then a beginner's box out in time for...

I agree the advantage is basically fine. It's kind of funny with prone, though, which most unconscious people will also be. I don't think that works out very well, honestly. Outside of comic relief characters, low dex doesn't mean you're so clumsy that you're throwing yourself on people's...

They haven't specifically said that I know of. There's been some hints at there being a basic game and more advanced options, but no real details on the packaging. Opinions will vary as to whether it's ready to play, but it has enough material to play through max level. It's not enough for...

That's still not terrribly uncommon. That said, my experience with that rule is calibrated to 2nd Edition. So your halfling fighter/thief can get to level 9/15. And the classic half-elf fighter/mage/thief can get to 9/12/12. So even the first limit doesn't kick in until your human mages have...

After the first packet, I was saying I very easily might get it. After the second, I was waiting to see if they'd move things in the right direction. Since then, I've shifted from waiting to see if they will to just assuming they won't. It's still possible they'll produce a game that I want...

As is running short campaigns that don't reach the level cap. Which, unless WotC has been consistently lying to us for no reason, includes the majority of all campaigns. You're right on the net effect, only seeing non-humans, but that was also the net effect of running short campaigns or...

I hadn't thought about that. But yeah, convergent evolution at the very least; they're trying to encourage very similar activities. Cheers! Kinak

I think rogue and bard both have pretty good places in that party. With the paladin and barbarian (maybe cleric), a rogue would have plenty of flanking opportunities. But the bigger a party, the better bardic music gets. As someone who's finishing up Book 5 of Rise of the Runelords right now, I...

I'm basically with you. With the proficiency bonus staying so low, it doesn't have much effect on the actual rolls. I'd rather they didn't give us a bunch of numbers to track that aren't even large enough to mean anything. If they don't have the proficiencies making a substantial difference...

Huh... that could be... interesting? I guess I'll find out when I see it. Cheers! Kinak

I'm a big fan of this. I ended up doing something extremely similar for an Eberron homebrew and, although Eberron is obviously dripping with wands, it fits my mental image of basic attack spells very well. Huh, wow, I totally missed that. It's good to hear, though. I hope the sorcerer ends up...

The Mythic Surge ability is basically that, yes. Mechanically, the die size increases as you gain Mythic Tiers, so it's quite close. But they're used as a general pool to power certain mythic abilities. All mythic characters get mythic surge, but they also all get at least one specific to their...

Well, there's the Voyage of the Golden Dragon for Eberron. I don't have a copy personally, but it includes a pretty good map of a luxury airship. There's also a number of old Spelljammer supplements that had deckplans for big ships. A mammoth ships was used as a floating dungeon in Dungeon...

A strange question occurs to me, thinking about this some: how much more leeway does Pathfinder have on these issues because it can't call itself D&D? Because, they definitely push the envelope further than WotC has (or is likely to). And some of that's just not having to answer to Hasbro, I'm...