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In 3.X rogues roll 6d6+ per attack and can have several attacks per round, and I don't find it unbearable.

I don't know if it's fun, but it's one of the stated goals. And it's a goal they aren't achieving

It might has some meaning if you have hobgoblins with extra bonus from adventage (like rogues sneak), or if you use low rank and file hobgoblins to fuel up other higher level hobgoblin chieftains. Other than that, is completelly useless.

The new magic item rules are great. I love the flavor, I love them being unique and with personality, I love the concept. A few things I disagree: belts giving a fixed Str. Yes, it has the nostalgia bonus. But it also make dumping very rewarding. If you dump str to 8, and then you find or build...

If they were 2, or 5, you could also ask "why 2" or "why 5".

Well, that Mearls' article also mention they have been reading forums and concerns people are expressing there. So the OP post was not useless. Maybe this post was one of the post that inspired the R&D team to change their minds and ditch the previous aproach and favor this new one ;)

It's harder to model as a theory, but it might not too hard to playtest. You just need a bunch of people playtesting the thing. I think DDN has +80.000 playtesters, WotC only needs to make an adventure for lvl 5, with 8 ogres in an encounter. Then they can get feedback, from real gameplay. Some...

What others said. The healing stone is incredibly underpriced for it's power. A ring of regeneration cost 90.000, takes a body slot, and don't even heal you unless you are wearing it when you took damage. So the Ring of Regeneration can only heal 1 party member. With the Stone, once Jack...

Well, that does not even *need* to be disproven, because it is *obvious*. My point was that ogres can still be a reasonable threat at higher levels, but obviously not at the same numbers that they are a threat at level 1. It also means that in a given encounter, where you have 4 PC and 8 ogres...

I see two problems with your example. The first one, is that a combat does not need with a PC dead to be "a threat" or "meaningful". indeed, the CR system implies that the PC *win* the battle, but they lose a few resources in the process. A game where the PC have 50% chance to win an encounter...

I preffer that too. But... there's a problem for that from a designer point of view, specially with 5e design goal. There are people who WANT to play wizards as Vancian only, and would hate to have any kind of encounter powers -see the reactions to signature spells in some people- while there...

Multiclassing is a mess anyways in every edition. It's either overpowered, underpowered, or both at same time, depending the edition and the classes. A third edition Ranger/Barbarian/Fighter might work, but try a Druid/cleric of nature/wizard enchanter. It blows. Hard. I'd just forget about...

This has always been a problem of specialist fighters (and other classes). If you make a disarm specialist, you are going to lose half your feats against an Owl Bear. Few combats can't be won by damage. But a lot of monsters can't be overcome by damage-substitutions. Lot's of them arent...

You can use elven curve blade, spiked chain, whip, kama, light pick, light mace, cestus, dagger, aldori longsword, light hammer, sawed sabre... I guess you don't really expect to have a finesse morning star or great axe, do you?

Evil campaigns tend to finish as a treacherous pvp fest. By limiting them somewhat (lawful evil tendencies, etc) you can make the campaign safer. If you can trust the players to play mature, this is not really needed. But it is a good advice to have, as players tend to forget basic social...

one possible solution is talking with your wizard player and make him choose a bonded item that can be kept in a prison. Maybe a bone through the nose, a cord around the neck, or a headband. alternatively, your wizard player could smuggle the bonded item into the prison in the same way people...

It makes the skill usefu in some situationsl, as opposite of what it is right now. The problem with that, is that it does nothing. In 99.99% of the cases, a fighter will hit with a 10, in a "bounded accuracy" system as we are playtesting, against equal level threats. A human fighter with...

I think it won't be generally supported. It'll be supported by 4e fans, and some 3e fans, but not widely supported by people who dislike 4e. If you make the fighter to have, say, 5 stamina points to spend in a encounter, and trip, cleave, and parry cost you 1, what does forbid you to do...

This is true for any system that do not use a "spell list". If in a given combat, "trip" is the best maneuver, you'll trip in every single opportunity you have. And half the target audience will not buy the game if it has "encounter" powers with a "spell list" which cannot be repeated. So I...

A thirty foot tall giant couldn't even stand on his feet, due to the Square Cube Law. In a fantasy world, this do not apply. Also, Hercules, or Cu Chulain, arestronger than both the Troll and the Giant, and they are 6' That said, in real world, Naim Suleymanonglu, who is 4'10'', can lift more...