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Ok, that's too awesome not to allow.

One thing is the Investigation checks for illusions, Strength checks for Earthquake, and Int checks for Maze all require your action. Saving throws seem to be reserved for the initial effect on the caster's turn, and skill/ability checks are used on your turn if there is some residual effect to...

Let's not go down that rabbit hole. 3e did that, and it turned into a morass of charop madness. Feats ought to give new options, not change numbers.

I'm glad that the game supports what should be a common-sense means of beating somebody up - knocking them down then going to town on them.

Glad for that. I was quite perturbed I couldn't copy/paste class features onto my character sheet.

Most of my players have been playing D&D for 20 years or more. They like to reminisce about that old-school bastard DM they used to have back in the day who made people roll 3d6 and take them in order. I don't think any of the 15 or so gamers I know would want to go back to any method of stat...

Doesn't sound like much fun to me...

Uhh, this is how it works. (remainder snipped) Nothing in there about having to declare it before you make the attack roll.

So..... Mages rule, fighters drool? That's the impression I'm getting here.:erm:

I would like to make one complaint: The font they picked for the body text has characters with an inconsistent height. For example "s" is taller than most other lower-case characters, "t" is shorter than "i", etc. Nitpicky but it is a little awkward to read for me.

Here's one for you: The grid combat sidebar has 4e-style 1-square diagonals as the default for movement. Of course it does mention a more realistic option in the DMG...

Yeah, that is a bit depressing.

I have noticed all through the playtest that most reactions are pretty powerful.

Something about "Gift Horses" here.

Rogues get 2 more expertise at 6th. Human alternate option to "all +1s" is +1 to two stats, a skill, and a feat. Classes provide 2 skills (4 for rogue) Backgrounds provide 2 skills and 2 tools/languages Each background has a random personality trait, ideal, bond, and flaw table. # of cantrips is...

The inclusion of the Matrix of Leadership, Forge of Sollus Prime, and Elements of Harmony in the magic items section really surprised me.

I can't wait to see if rogue styles and other such class specializations are flexible enough to add some with supernatural abilities, such as a shadow master rogue, or a 4e-style thunderborn barbarian

Fine with me. The Realms are a kitchen sink setting so you can do and find just about anything there. And I find the complaints about its high-level NPCs akin to complaining about it being hard to find a job in Chicago because there's a lot of movie stars in California. :hmm:

Did any of these make the cut? 101 Spells Not Worth Memorizing

Not much different from the cleric's Sun domain "Flare" ability (use reaction to impose disadvantage on attacker). I wonder if that made it to the PHB.