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For the first time in the history of the internet, I agree with every point Sonofapreacherman made.

There's not one character that I'm looking to create, and I created a fun rogue yesterday to play through the starter set. We're planning a run through Tyranny of Dragons that will coincide with PHB release. Those additional options will be most welcome. I'm not knocking the Basic rules...

Will any of those classes be available in Basic/Starter Set or are they released mid-August with the PHB?

Nah, no need for sympathies. Mint chocolate chip is my 3rd or 4th favorite ice cream, but sometimes it hits the spot perfectly.

There are a lot of people out there whose favorite game is D&D, but I agree that it's appeal as a common denominator is key. Honestly, I know people for whom D&D is the only RPG they play. Again, I don't think the couple of Meetups and FLGS in my area are absolutely indicative of the whole...

Wow there is some serious foaming at the mouth going on. It was predictable that the 5e honeymoon would be over before the game shipped. It was probably over before the game was announced. So much possessive passion from people. I totally get it. Not a criticism. Personally, I'm not a...

Great question, Jay. I left the hobby in the late '80s, AD&D and James Bond RPG were my bread and butter. When I started playing again in 2008, it was Call of Cthulhu that brought me back. In 5e games I write/run, there will be a strong narrative, with textured characters, loads of...

Using alignment as training wheels to help someone play a persona different than them makes sense, but it is very simplistic and like many crutches can often be a barrier to good roleplay. Alignment has an axis of three discrete values for Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic, when these are really...

Alignment is a broad, limiting concept from a personality standpoint compared to a whole personality for a character. While I would argue that actions and behaviors are very much a product of values and mindsets, alignment is a clumsy, simplistic way of defining a character's values and...

Spot on! d&d is so amazing that people have really emotionally invested in it, and their individual concepts of what is d&d is very personal. Our views are formed from our diverse gaming experiences with our own groups of friends. So I like a game that acknowledges this and provides...

Well said, Thaumaturge. There are so many camps and individual tastes with opinions on what is core d&d that the devs cannot possibly make everyone happy. If they only published what was universally agreeable to all players, we would have a dull, lowest common denominator of a game. I embrace...

Where is the starter adventure set? Do we know the setting of the starter adventure? What campaign setting? Urban/wilderness? Name of town/region? Anything like that?

What I would enjoy seeing in D&D 5e games would be the sort of play with narrative expectations we see in SoIaF. The way the series plays with tropes and cultural expectations so that you're comfortable and feel you know what's going to happen, but BAM something else happens ... and it is...

I couldn't agree more!

It's cool. You still have free healthcare. As a Call of Cthulhu player, we English speakers look with envy at beautiful CoC materials that German, French, and Spanish publishers produce because players in those markets will pay for them. The argument is that English-speaking gamers (and...

Just an observation ... Complaining about the MSRP (which nobody is actually paying) for the books (which nobody's actually seen yet) seems to be an American phenomenon. Is the "Overseas" market unphased by the pricing or disinterested in the product?