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Don't a lot of these issues actually have to do with pacing? This all reminds me of the discussion surrounding doing sandbox with 4E and how it's not at all designed that way. Likewise if you run 3E like a 4E adventure the wizard would be basically limitless at all times. I think in some...

That's what they need to do honestly. We need a handy well organized rules reference that has everything in it for playing. Then put all the races and classes and such in the phb. Expect us to buy both, I don't mind. Package them together, whatever. As long as the rules reference is inexpensive...

Cool post. That's what my problem with 4E can be boiled down to. It's so well balanced and tuned and all that it's too rigid. There's no room to make things wiggle and flow. Your plumbing has to be completely mapped out ahead of time, you can't fnagle as easily and that kills a lot of the...

Yes he's all kinds of awesome at refusing to draw (human) feet in every illustration I've seen. He's cool and all, but not on the same level. There's a place for his illustrations, but it isn't doing the iconic images of each race. wotc has the money and the previous work relationship to have...

As long as they can balance the classes within reason. Sure. However, not in the way 4E did. Which was so methodical and obvious it took any and all character away from the classes. When the difference between characters of the same 'role' becomes basically "do you like shiny armor or silky...

100% not expecting it. I just think it would be interesting. Be honest though, the initial response is almost 100% based on an illustration. I don't even remember his name, but the guy who did most of the artwork in the 4E PHB is not really a good illustrator (sorry dude). At least not...

All I've really played and DMd is 3E. To a much lesser extent 4e. We only really used grids to do big encounters with a lot of stuff going on. Otherwise we just used pennies on a piece of paper and gave ranges and general positions. *shrug*

It's a game played by humans. We use secondary sex characteristics to identify and understand things. Dragonborn are hideous wastes of space anyway. The all have massive underbites for some reason. They were, imho, a badddddd move. I would actually love to see 5E have all unique new races...

Maybe you should check out Iron Heroes.

They won't lose me but I will buy 5E stuff when it comes around. I will be very curious to see how things are done. Just like with 4E which I gave a shot and bought the core books for. Also bought essentials and the dark sun books because I had always wanted to do a dark sun game back when I was...

Because the word 'Vancian' sounds awesome.

Of course it matters. There are all kinds of assumptions that come with it. At this point for most people one of those assumptions is that the company has enough money to produce very high-end products. Why don't I play the myriad other games that exist out there? In most cases because they...

Thresholds. If you have a cleric like in your example who focuses on turning or banishing, etc. at a certain point he goes from doing x damage to banishing or destroying the thing outright. The downside being you don't want the game to just devolve into everyone trying to hit some kind of...

Hard to quote you since you left it as xp. I understand that but generally as a DM you need to DM appropriate to the level of the people you're playing with. If you're playing with less experienced players, there's no need to punish everything they do and kill them. It doesn't encourage anyone...

I agree to some extent. Inter-class balance isn't something that's ever going to happen and since your objective isn't to kill your friends (usually) it isn't so much of a concern. I think it has more to do with how the DM designs around stuff to make magic users less overpowering in every...

Keywording is definitely hugely helpful when it comes to long term organization. I would be extremely surprised if they don't use keywords in 5E. There's no real downside. They just need to create a system of keywords that finds a good balance between being too specific and too general. Some...

Not only that but also printing quality. paper and ink quality. the ink quality in the 4e books is absolute trash. printing in some of my essentials books isnt even properly lined up. not to mention the bindings are cheaper. my 3e phb is still completely tight and in great shape. some of my 4e...

You TPKd your group in a beginner adventure designed to introduce people to the game. wow.

Good thread man. I agree that having the balls to move away from just using the cleric for any and all healing was great. I think they had the will to do that because they designed the game around roles, not specific classes. from there it was just a matter of fitting different styles and...

verisimilitude comes from the DM, not the rules. All the rules do is facilitate that by being easy to use for a huge range of situations. How 'real' it seems and what you're able to do is all in the DMs hands. You're never going to create a ruleset to make something feel 'realistic' because...