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We started playing the Starter Set adventure with 2 people picking pregens, 1 creating his own with the Basic rules, and GM throwing the left-over Human Fighter pregen in as an NPC, so we'd have the expected 4 characters to the party. Low-level combat was nothing other than repetitive roll to...

It would be useful to know how many short rests you're expected to get... Because, you could just say players get that many Refreshes during a day, when they want them, done, without encouraging PCs to camp all the time.

Seriously, people saying 'it could come up if you cannot pull a weapon'... In that case, forced into unarmed punching someone, the difference between 1+Strmod and 1d4+Strmod in damage is unlikely to be the deciding factor (a damage boost of +1.5 points!). And you WILL just punch someone if you...

Without the Str/Con boost, this would be fine as part of a Background. As a feat, though? Horrible. Bonus action grapple could be nice (for classes who have nothing to do with their bonus actions already), if grappling didn't require a free hand, and if it did something besides just immobilize...

Having class abilities that are overshadowed by lv1 spells/magic items is just embarrassing. If monster HP goes up at 3e rates, oh boy, so much for combat effectiveness, too (since you're still punching them one at a time, while Wizard yawns and goes save-or-suck or Wall of Stones himself a keep).

Problem with making Jumping as its own thing is that this is a game where eventually, everyone will fly. And there's a lot of athletic tasks that use both upper and lower body strength - you're not hanging on that wall through just your arms, I would hope. :p

Why? How do sharp senses help him find that door, rather than deducing its presence? This is why Perception is such a god stat, because every trap/ambush/clue uses it... Why even bother with Investigation, if you can just walk into a room and go 'ahhah! secret door, hidden journal, there and...

You could just let the players choose what they want, and run a 4th pregen as an NPC. That way the combat challenge should be as intended, and if no-one wanted to play a Cleric, then they still get a healbot along.

I wasn't calling you badwrongfun, sorry if it came across that way. I am just literally not seeing the function or design space for the skill as is.

Yeah, I think it's a band-aid over the 15-minute workday. We'll see how it works out.

They did start putting just about everything Investigation should do under Perception examples, didn't they? Search for a hidden object? Sure sounds like searching with intent and deducing to me! What do you mean that's the exact example used for a Wisdom (Perception) check? But...

I like your explanation. It's just lacking a reason to separate the two in the first place. On the level of abstraction the other skills are operating at, two skills for covering 'coordination and physical movement', doing basically the same thing, is superfluous. It'd be different if they'd...

And watch those dump stats get dumped without a second thought.

That's not telling me anything, you're just describing their culture. If any of that is true on an individual level, then that needs to show up in their stats. There is nothing in Humans that says 'achieve stuff in the short time they have available', any more than Elves have mechanical base...

Nor is there transferrable skills between, say, swimming, mountain climbing and pole vaulting, but they're all still clumped up into Athletics. And Persuasion is just every interaction ever, rather than being fast-talk, seduction, teaching as separate skills. When every other skill is a large...

I think History could be argued to cover the present situations, not just stuff that happened 100 years ago that no-one cares about. Perhaps it should be renamed Culture, or something, but history is the focus because of dungeon-delving, I guess.

Let's put it this way - Elves get +2 +1 to stats, Darkvision to right away halve the potential situations that could cause one to take Disadvantage to every action, a few minor boons (weapon training, movement speed/hiding, cantrip/language), AND the best skill in the game, Perception. Human...

But there's way too many spells! :p Anyway, they'll be happy to sell you many more. And then you have this stuff spread out across 12 books and need a separate product just to keep track of it.

Yeah, Humans aren't a good measuring stick. Feat at 1st level is the only thing making them a remotely valid option, compared to all the goodies the demihumans get. As is, until your power stat hits 20, a feat or 2 stat points seems like a balanced choice to make (feat allows you to do more...

Backgrounds are among the top ideas of 5e. It's nice to see them provide a structured customization/characterization/plot-hook tool.