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For some reason, this article crystalized a feeling I've got about DndNext. Everything is a module with no real attempt to balance anything. Rather than doing the difficult job of trying to vaguely balance a druid with and without an animal companion (which is what Pathfinder does) they're just...

Remember your detect evil. It allows you to very quickly determine whether a particular opponent is evil. Your smites are your biggest gun. Use detect evil to make sure that they are used only on evil opponents. Be careful to not waste them on minor monsters. On the other hand, don't try so...

manbearcat is absolutely right. I think that he is just finding it difficult to explain his point. Perhaps a simple example will help. Your PC is in the forest and trying to sneak up on a guard. How would you handle that when the PC 1) Has no magic items 2) Has an Elven cloak 3) Has Elven...

At least they got back to you this time :-). Either they're staggering the updates or they've decided that my opinions aren't what they are looking for (too negative, I presume)

As long as you have players that you trust a huge amount of the system mastery and book load can be distributed. I regularly run PFS adventures with just the core rulebook and bestiary. In theory the players are supposed to bring the Ultimate Magic, Combat etc entries that they are using. In...

I think that this is so inherent to the rules that it isn't worth house ruling. The odds of getting a decent and balanced game just seem too low to me. You'll have to tweak all NPCs, all PCs, all modules, etc. My solution is the obvious one. Either decide that this is a deal breaker and ignore...

I thought that it was insanely badly organized in one respect. If I want to give feedback on some particular subject (for example, cleric spells) then I have to give feedback on ALL cleric spells? 1) I don't have time to do that 2) I haven't used all the spells. If there was at least a...

There are some caveats to running unbalanced parties For example, part of the power of an all rogue (or all stealthy) group is that they will ambush the bad guys a lot. This can lead to some VERY boring combats where (hopefully) all the fun was in sneaking in and getting the drop on the bad...

I'd claim that WOTC made some pretty strong claims wrt what it expected to achieve with its modularity. People maybe went a little further than those claims but only maybe and only a little. The situation is actually turning out more or less exactly as I expected. The modularity is far, far...

Very unclear. Lots of questions where you're supposed to rate something from 1-5. But, unless you add a comment (which happens to be read) you don't get to say why you're dissatisfied. For example, I said I was dissatisfied with Sorceror spells. But it took a comment for me to say why. Its...

I didn't mean to help hijack this thread. It honestly seemed like a good place to discuss why people didn't seem to be playtesting the new rules. Which really DOES seem to be a significant difference between this release of the rules and the previous one. At any rate, I apologize for my part...

I'll reiterate one point and then shut up. I'm NOT playtesting in a vacuum. I'm not coming to DnD cold. I've got lots and lots of experience. I can actually read rules and, often, get a very good feel for how they'll play without actually playtesting. I know that, personally, I believe that...

Right now its so far from what I want that it isn't worth much of my time. I'll respond to the questionaire that WOTC sends but that is all I'm going to do. My time is valuable to me. If the game was close to what I want then I'd be willing to spend the time hoping that my suggested tweaks and...

For a home game its actually pretty good advice. I know roughly what the modifiers are for all the characters in the game that I run (at least for commonly used skills) and have a fairly good feel for what the circumstance modifiers would be. I'll often look at the D20 roll and only start really...

At this point, neither my group nor I care enough to actually playtest these rules. Its obvious from a quick reading that they're 1) Very, very unfinished and significantly unbalanced 2) Not to our tastes. 3) Going to change hugely anyway I really hope that I'm an outlier. If I'm not, then the...

I don't follow Drizzt or the Realms at all but this caught my attention. Could somebody please give me a very brief explanation on why its no longer ok to kill Orcs in the Realms?

Be VERY careful about interpreting an internet poll. Thats 60% of the people who care enough about 5th edition to be following New Horizons at all and who care enough to wade through the myriad of threads since the new playtest materials were released and who care enough to respond to a poll...

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I've got over 30 years experience playing role playing games. I already know what I think about rolled stats. Playing a few sessions of one particular game isn't going to change that opinion. For the record : I hate rolled stats. I'm human and dislike them less those times that I get lucky and...

You rolled insanely well. You're a good magic user, a decent rogue or cleric or dex based fighter. With that Con you even have a fighting chance of surviving :-). Compare with the character that I rolled up : STR - 11 DEX - 9 CON - 12 INT - 12 WIS - 8 CHA - 14 On the good side, this will...