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I'm still play testing, but I haven't enjoyed it in several months. My group does it reluctantly, in hopes of offering useful feedback... it's tough because we all feel the game is usually moving in the wrong direction (for us anyway). We are actually splitting time between the play yest and...

Sounds mildly interesting, but in the pantheon of stuff I don't care about, the Forgotten Realms looms like Zeus.

I've been pretty disappointed with the playtest materials so far, but this new packet seems to have a lot of great improvements that I really like. Now, if I can just convince my group to give Next another shot...

My group has played 4 times now, and each session we liked the system less and less. We've decided to stop until they release new materials, but at this point, things aren't looking good for my group making the switch. The biggest complaint is that the system is too limited and...

Having played at DDXP (and been quite disappointed) I was VERY pleased to see how much the game had changed. It's also interesting to see how the game had apparently changed from the summit to the con a couple months later. This character sheet reminds me of the one thing I wish had stuck...

There's a lot of speculation on why Monte left, most of it related to taking a stand in the edition war, but in my experience most people leave a job for one of these three reasons: Money Job Satisfaction Personality Conflict Though there's always the 4th (slightly less common) reason...

Speaking as someone who played 5E and didn't like it much, even I can say I still have interest in it. I may not be convinced I'll switch when it gets released, but I'm still interested to see what they come up with. If for no other reason the intellectual curiosity about how WotC manages the...

I would rather there was no default setting. Perhaps the base books have the Greek pantheon as an example, or refer to gods in terms of their portfolio/domains (ie. death god, sun god, etc.), and then include several setting options in the DMG. This could be a 2- or 4-page spread for several...

I really don't like the opposed roll notion either--there's something wrong with the idea that a natch 20 could still miss, and doesn't a DM have to do enough rolling already?. I suppose you could hose rule that monsters "take a 10" on their save. For that matter, the monsters could "take a...

With all the talk about how fans of different editions would feel about the new game, I've been thinking a bit about it. Since I have played and loved every edition of D&D (other than OD&D). As much as anyone can I will attempt to rate the base game from the perspective of a fan of each...

For my character two sections were mostly equal, one was about 50% larger. My neighbor's sheet had a lot more empty space and the ratios looked a little different (but I didn't study it).

Yes, each set of abilities was in it's won section. I had to look in three different places to know if I had bonuses for anything.

Keeping the lights on and thriving are two different things. If there weren't 4E players, there would be no 5E because D&D would have been shelved by now.

It may not be representative of other groups, but the folks in our group who had started with 3E and especially 4E had the most negative impression of the game.

I think I know what you are referring to, and our group really disliked it. I think it will be unpopular, and hopefully will get feedbacked out.

Each character was on a double-sided sheet of paper, with the spell casters having an extra double-sided sheet for spells. The character sheets had a lot of class description info, but I think it would be easy enough to fit on an index card, not counting spells. Bear in mind these characters...

Since they let this cat out of the bag at the seminars, I feel comfortable saying I really liked the way themes were included and what they did. The races felt right to me too. As far as playability, that entirely depends on the rule modules. The the base game really tires to capture a 1E/2E...

Keep the faith brother (or sister). While I was initially pretty discourage too, I remind myself that this was the base game. If (and its a big if) WotC can deliver rule modules that allow each group to craft their own version of D&D, I think it can work. To me the critical element is that...

We got to chat with Monte for close to a half hour after we wrapped up. He asked out thoughts, answered some questions, and seemed very interested in our opnions. In short, a real class act. Beyond that everyone received a comment card that asked how long you had been playing, what your...

Both in combat and out of combat I felt like I was doing the same things over and over again. I tried to find creative ways to do it... but it was still the same thing again and again (until I said screw it and stole the big bad's weapon, and then went back to doing the same old same old)...