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While I understand this perspective I feel it depends on the way it is packaged and presented. I could accept this if I wasn't told this was the system. This is again basically just using the 4E roles as classes. It's the same basic concept. While I like that streamlined and elegant kind of...

I like mixing them. I specifically like sci-fantasy or whatever you'd like to call it. Like The Book of the New Sun. I think we're more the minority though and I do think that things work best when one of them seems more normal or standard and the other is kind of special. in dark sun its magic...

I don't think psionics are that necessary for the core barebones system of 5E. I think they would be saved for setting specific books because that's where psionics really shine. It's an alternative magic in some sense and it has a very different kind of feeling. Things like 'feeling' and 'style'...

I am pretty confident it will be vancian with a twist. Like pathfinder did in a sense. I'm thinking some kind of vancian system but with maybe some kind of difficulty of memorization determined by spell 'power'. this difficulty being represented by amount of slots the spell takes up. Certainly...

The specific flavors of different games have taken them in different directions. Definitely though in 5E I imagine they would just unify those concepts and produce a very complete (thematically) warlock/witch class.

I have extensive experience running 1st lvl 3.X and PF. PCs die RARELY. Get knocked out and down? Sure, happens frequently but die outright? Why was your wizard being critted by a greataxe? What the hell were your players doing? And if your players are so incompetent and/or don't care about...

I don't really agree there. There's a difference between a class and the amalgamation of a few classes. From a 3.X/PF standpoint a class is defined usually by some kind of 'class feature' that only that class has access to. Just putting together the abilities of other classes does not give you...

Free while a cool idea is maybe unrealistic. Some version of the game for free, sure. Some little scenario to get a taste so anyone curious can see what it is for themselves. What they really need to do is have the core rule book be like the rules compendium. Not necessarily in form factor...

I don't think he's saying perfection isn't something to strive for. He's saying that it just isn't something one system can actually do as long as 'perfection' was already a different system to someone. If you love AD&D then that already is perfection. 5E isn't going to take your memories and...

I think this is that case always mentioned where it's really the players and DM. In 3E we didn't open books too much after character creation. I mean I did (DM) but everyone else knew enough about the basics of the game to figure out most everything for themselves. 4E felt quite the opposite...

I doubt this is their specific intention. A nice little side effect and tie in? sure. On a related note. I am EXCITED to get these books finally. Having played D&D for around 12 years and never touched AD&D or really anything but 3.X and some 4E.

Just a few days ago I made a post wondering why wotc hasn't reprinted the older books. Well. This is awesome news. I started playing when I was in 8th grade with the 3E starter box. The one with Regdar and crew on it and a red dragon in the doorframe behind them. In recent years I've wanted to...

I skimmed your post but didn't you basically describe the alternity system.

Well if you choose to be an elf you can use a longsword from lvl 1 in 3E/PF. My friend always tries to play a character of that kind, usually with terribly consequences. I think on one occasion he attempted to hack at a giant spider, missed and on the spiders turn was immediately bleeding out...

Yes so when you design for one system it doesn't necessarily work as well in the other. Things that work in 4E don't work in 3.X. Things that work in 3.X don't work in 4E. That's how it is. But 5E is a new edition and is specifically about distilling things down and allowing for flexibility...

I really, really, really hope they have some good designers to work on organizing all these modules and 'core' rules in such a way that makes actively using the book(s) as painless as possible. That will be quite the task but with some foresight I think it can be done sufficiently. The index...

No offense taken man. What bothered me was the idea that people like to turn 3.x into a decision of "Do you like super powerful wizards or not?" Because that simply isn't the main difference between 3.x and 4e. It isn't even the main difference between those editions when you're solely focused...

Sounds like it makes sense to me. I think 4E did a lot as far as understanding organization that will be applied going forward. Also I think I agree with 90% of the posts you make.

This made me laugh. So once you turn into a hawk you can never turn back into a druid! Now you're just a hawk.

It's not that people DESIRE incredibly powerful magic users to the point that all other classes are completely useless. No one wants that as an option. The problem is what is tied to what makes the magic users so strong. Or rather, the entire construction of 3.X/PF. It's startling how people...