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How about we ask this: "What makes D&D fun?" , and "In what way is that missing from 5e?" Whatever your answer is to that is probably what you should shape your playtest report around. If you can't specifically answer the question then you can't really be helped. I don't mean to imply that...

I'm interested in looking at average damage comparisons for when it does max damage for taking disadvantage. What is the probability of hitting with disadvantage compared to the probability of critting without disadvantage?

Caves of Chaos is supposed to be very strong on the social side because the orcs, goblins, and kobolds are not immediately hostile. This is supposed to lead to strange deals/encounters with the different tribes as the pc's figure out what exactly they want to do (it's supposed to be a very...

I can get behind the idea that the friend person not taking the damage would not be able to figure it out. It's always been my thinking, however, that intelligent enemies can interpret which foe has posed the most mortal threat to them in combat so far and then focus on them. As an arbitrary...

If I were DMing and the monsters were of average intelligence then I would not have them gang-up on the rogue until he started doing insane damage every turn. In combat if one enemy is showing himself as being considerably more powerful than another it would make sense to switch to targeting the...

Based upon this playtest alone I would be inclined to agree with you. I certainly agree with your sentiments on how plotless dungeons should still be stimulating, but with all of the other reports that have been on this forum about how dangerous adventuring has been for other groups I'm really...

Nevermind. Multi Log regression wont work. There are too many endogenous variables, and I don't know how to account for the auto-correlations caused by surviving combat.

This would be cool if it didn't mechanically reinforce the need for the monster to attack the rogue every turn. All of the sudden rogues will be taking attacks from everyone like they were a fighter.

right I was just being a little hyper specific since you said that you had a minimum +6 before adding the ability modifier, which I though implied that you meant would add +6 to the ability modifier. You have a minimum of +6

that's not quite right, since one of the +3's is meant to replace your modifier if it is lower than +3. So really saying they have a minimum check result of 16 would be more accurate. Even then this is misleading because it doesn't shift the whole distribution up, it just removes the...

It doesn't work too well mechanically, but I've always been inspired by valiant last stands. I've been trying to emulate Borimir's last fight since I was a little kid, somehow the regular HP values never cut it for me.

Things that got mentioned by the dev team: Realms Ravenloft Dragonlance Dark Sun Greyhawk This isn't to say that they were referenced in terms of "we're working on this" they just happened to talk about it without being prompted Things that did not get mentioned by the dev team: Spelljammer...

They could be able to get jobs working for any lord. In the same way that one of the backgrounds can get you into a keep to get a meeting with a local lord, maybe the slave background could get you in to the keep but this time from the kitchens or servants quarters. Or if you don't want to have...

I basically think of the fighter having CS dice as the fighter having everyone 4e maneuver that he can think of that he could use at his level. If in 4e you have a maneuver that was just X[W] damage, and you had some that were (X-1)[W] plus some special ability or effect. So once the fighter has...

I'm not sure whether I would like to see this as an independent class or as a wizarding tradition, like wild mage, trasmographer, etc. what do you think makes it worthy of being a base class? I don't mean to attack your choice, I'd just like to brainstorm ideas of how we can make it unique and...

Okay, well that's actually great to know. I don't know much about real life fighting. I am very involved in sports, but my sport is necessarily repetitive (rowing, hence the name bow seat). Coming from what I knew of physical exertion I have been under the impression that if you could do it once...

I think that the skill mastery is probably one of the easiest things for the dev teak to tinker with. Maybe instead of making a minimum die roll mechanic they could use a minimum result mechanic. I'm not really sure if you can take away the entire thing and still have the rogue fulfill it's...

I have two things to say about this: 1) this was what I liked the least about fourth edition, because as a martial class where everything that I am doing is a practiced physical action, why couldn't I just do the same thing over again? I really disliked that once I had used the most effective...

My money says that Mystra dies, again. You know, track records and all that.

oh they are juvenile, but that's their thing. it's their selling point.