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Reminds me of Alternity, which was awesome.

...a waste of time, because it interacts with Hit Points, and nothing that interacts with hit points will ever truly make sense unless you let your eyes relax and just stare into the middle distance without thinking about it too much.

What the DMG really, really, really needs is a solid understanding of the game systems, how they function, and why. Why are monsters built the way they are, and how do changes alter that? What should the flow of information look like, and what are the most common blind spots? What are the...

PCs totally can. They don't, at least not as a matter of routine because that interferes with the narrative structure of most campaigns (since it gets in the way of all but the sand-box-iest of playstyles, and is thus too disruptive to be anything but a rare, special occurrence), but they can.

Clerical healing is so cheap DMs have to invent bull**** reasons for there to be no 1st level Clerics anywhere nearby. And if there's a Cleric in the party no one's gonna be laid up longer than one full day. Get back to town, recover spells the next morning, dump as many as needed into the...

Too bad there's, like, eighty hojillion "rabble rabble, Fighters should heal 1 HP per day!" posts here and on the WotC forums that prove you wrong. Oh, what's that? Emphasis added, but really the whole post, right from this thread, makes my point for me: nerds need to be special, and that...

Speaking in generalities and stereotypes, D&D players tend to venerate the intellectual, physically-weak-but-my-brain-is-so-powerful-yo Wizard because it reflects their personal experience of the world, while the more "mundane" and jock-ish Fighter is placed into an intentionally subservient...

Yeah, f*** jocks, only nerds get to do cool stuff!

No, you don't ignore the penalty, it just doesn't factor into your AC. Basically heavy armour "just works" as far as stopping attacks is concerned, even if you're not great at getting out of the way. You still have the dex penalty for everything else - like saves, contests, and skill checks -...

Below Current Hit Points is a big field for Temporary Hit Points.

The progression is now 2-6 rather than 1-6. The first two levels of +1 prof just weren't terribly meaningful. I also think that the slightly meatier +2 makes the mechanic stand out, which helps players rationalize its value from the start. For whatever psychological reasons, being +1 better at...

Possibly rolled into the same thing since the other use of dungeoneering, evaluating structural integrity, identifying traps and hazards, and all that, has been generally handled with Perception and Search (now Investigation) for a while now.

Either they're not explaining the Extra Attack in full for the pregen character sheet, or Extra Attack is now an all-eggs-in-one-basket thing, no more moving between attacks.

Anyone familiar with FR able to give a rundown of anything to note about the map, change-wise to the Realms?

Just putting it out there, but why does your criteria only apply to Paladins? It's not like Paladin abilities are crazy powerful compared to Wizards and Clerics, so why are they the only ones walking a tightrope?

Which is just more reason why they should have stuck with 4e's alignment slider and ditched the grid (really they should ditch the law/chaos axis entirely). What if your god, or even just sect within the church, is all about helping the poor? You're going to clash with society all over the...

5e is having a go at this with their Flaws, Bonds, and Ideals system. Also I wish Unaligned had carried over from 4e, though at this point, with a THAC0 sidebar added in, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a sidebar with variant alignment systems in either the PHB or the DMG.

The thing that sort of throws me about the LG-only Paladin is that they don't really fit into most any of the D&D worlds. Like, LG fits, but why are Paladins limited to LG? The world's mythology isn't one where there's God who made everything and cast down Satan for rebellion and people who are...

More Saint George, really. Edit: the point being that it's pastiche.

The complication here is that they're planning on pushing adventures and campaign settings much harder this edition. They've already mentioned that the PHB contains the pantheons for most of the major properties (FR, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, &c.) and this idea works well for some settings and...