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What makes you think I'm talking about facing? ;) As for the redesigning classes from the ground up, etc...I can definitively say that is not true. ;)

You are looking at the latest open playtest documents, not the latest playtest documents. Big difference there. :) Also, as it has been mentioned and linked many times, they have confirmed tactical options. (See: Legends and Lore)

So, speaking as someone who is currently running 3 D&D Next games, started playing with 3E in 2000ish, and ran a five year 4E game (and for several years, had 2-3 4E games at the same time).... 1) Note: 4E is my favorite published edition of D&D (NEXT is my new favorite, but it's not out yet...

Lol, well done. :-p

Aye, the low AC is super brutal, and unlike other editions of D&D, there are few to any ways to bump their AC. When building characters, unless they're wearing heavy armor, I basically tell folks to make Dex their second highest attribute, otherwise they'll get killed AC wise. Also, the HP...

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Not true - there are now complex fighters & simple mages. Please drop this idle speculation unless you're looking at the latest documents.

FWIW, as someone who has access to more...recent documents, I would not worry about this. :-) Assuming they keep down this route, they actually did solve some of the biggest discussions that these boards have had, including one that recently re-surfaced.

For auto success, I've done the 5+level rule - if a DC is lower than 5 + the character level, I let it auto succeed (unless its an attack, trap or spell related DC).

Oddly enough, while I like Damage on a Miss conceptually (and 4E is my favorite released version of D&D, NEXT being my overall favorite at this point), I don't like it the way it is currently implemented - because I see potential future hazards with "attacks that deal damage" feats & abilities...

I know first hand they have a list of "bugs" they are actively looking at and fixing. The attack / AC is one of those things. The attack values thing is not too bad so far, but I've only gotten a game with the current test packets up to level 3, so we'll see how it looks moving forward...

So, multiple responses to the multitude of questions 1) As someone who DM'd 3E/PFS/4E for many years now, 5E is so far being the easiest to DM (DM'ing 3 sessions of it a week, one with hardcore PFS players, a second with a group of 8-12 year olds, the third being a group of 20something ish...

It has stayed freeform so far (running the newer adventures via D&D Encounters) - that's a pretty solid design decision they've made.

So, since Lokaire didn't actually play the game it seems - don't worry too much about those comments 1) Freeform - the game lends itself to much more freeform action than 3E or 4E. The idea of "move" "action" lends itself to a simple repeatable phrase when a player starts their turn "Where do...

Not usually - but for instance, one of my groups is a group of younger kids (8-13), and I help them practice their math skills by using standard damage all the time; they can figure out how many hits the fighter has left, etc etc.

the 7 is average damage (average on a d10 is 5.5, rounded down to 5, then +2, for a total of 7). It's for DMs who don't want to necessarily have to roll damage every time a creature hits.

Oh, that one? I wouldn't worry about it - they just wanted to get some feedback about the class. Unless something radically changes, I'm pretty sure it will go in a Dragonlance specific book. It specifies that Kender are unique to Krynn and Warforged unique to Eberron. The reason half-orc...

did I miss something? where did we find out Kender was in the core PHB?

Note - the assumption of even a +1 weapon or shield at higher levels is not necessarily a good one. The way bounded accuracy is currently set up, any magic item legitimately increases your AC relative to all attack bonuses. So if you have +3 due to magic items...monsters aren't really going to...

I actually am OK with the freelancers bit, just because I think it would be too hard to make that much money as a full time employee, without being able to develop for multiple games and freelance at multiple places at a time. I know WotC is also generous about offering folks the option of FTE...