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Your article seems to conflate a couple of well trodden lines of discussion being the argument against levelling up style advancement in rpg's and the argument that a particular style of conflict resolution in rpg's should be encouraged (or perhaps more accurately that another style should be...

Hmm ok... ...but seriously, who uses astral projection anyway.

Yes, but that PC stat array is also likely to be a class that is proficient in all martial weapons so racial weapon proficiency is irrelevant. Either you accept the premise that in the standard D&D 5e world elves that do not get martial weapon proficiency as a class ability are raw rai...

Tucker's Kobolds tricks (often)= DM Fiat. "I can't believe your 10th level characters got whooped by a couple of simple 1 hit point kobolds.....who set 5 traps that were really hard to detect and did 5-50 damage each! 2 Kobolds huh? Beaten by 2 kobolds. Suckers!" DM beats players, go figure.

I've skipped some of the thread so haven't seen those. IMO allowing rogues to sneak attack with any of the weapons listed under rogue weapon proficiency is not unreasonable. You note I've kept the d8/d10 versatile slashing sword as a non finesse sword right? I've just posited making a weapon...

Because all of the fictional high and wood elves (who are naturally dexterous) who do not have martial weapon training and also all of the fictional rogues who cannot sneak attack with non-finesse melee weapons are trained in the use of this fictional weapon. So a solution to the issue of...

Rename the d8/d10 versatile slashing sword (currently misnamed longsword) to the broadsword. Make the longsword a d8 slashing finesse weapon.

The fiction makes sense to me. Each person starts each day with a certain capacity to benefit from magic items. The potion still works just not for a person whose resonance has been depleted. It doesn't matter how good the potion is if it's being applied to something that it can't effect...

IME some iterations of the game suffer from this issue more than others.

Also as I understand it (from third hand sources) getting 10 below the number needed to hit is a fumble so attacking a third time at low level will result in a lot of fumbles. I wasn't a fan of a lot of the changes they chose to pursue from 3.5 but I'm intrigued to see how they go with less...

The PDF Playtest stuff is free isn't it? The hardback Playtest seems to me to be for a select fanbase.

Sure, but there's not much difference between the third and fourth reaction - likely will result in more people checking option 2 IMO

I voted intrigued but would have voted between meh and intrigued if it existed. I'm more: I'm not that interested but I'll probably check it out.

I worry that it will be an element that encourages system mastery to min max leading to numerous action combinations being traps etc

Playtest for a new edition eh? time to rally all the pro paladin lobbyists to make sure we keep all our powers and gets a few more. more paladin power! Balance is for rogues and Rangers. ; )

My experience with 5e clerics has been different. One player I know plays a life cleric in one game and a light cleric in another and has commented on how as a life cleric he isn't needed to spend as many of his actions healing, because each action he does spend healing is more effective. If...

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Disagree. The benefit of the healing domain cleric is that it's healing has enough power to free up the cleric, making them less of a healbot. Glad forge didn't win, damn munchkin +1 armour bleah.

Forge Domain 4-2=2 Life Domain 3+1=4 Light Domain 3 Tempest Domain 7 Edited correction

What was the purpose as you understand it?