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To sell you towards the PHB. :D Remember, as time goes on, Basic will be updated as they release more and more of their content for free. So Feats may eventually show up in Basic; but they want to explain the concept in Basic and point folks towards the PHB if they want to use it.

Multiclassing is mentioned; but they drop a new? caveat; you must meet both the current class and the new class multiclass prerequisites. No more level 1 10 STR fighters MC'ing into Wizard.

Figure I will set up the official thread for discussion / feedback / coolness / anger about D&D Basic! First one; I'm loving Chapter 4 and how they use Artemis and Tika to compare and contrast how characters who are similar mechanically are different in play.

Running the kanji by a friend's wife (who is japanese); she is saying that the intent is "WotC has no licensing plans yet" rather than "there will never be a license". Which ties into Mearls' comments that they don't intend to do any 3rd Party licensing until after the DMG comes out. Knowing...

There is but it is not open to the public AFAIK.

Mearls mentioned it around the 46-47 minute mark on the Starter Set unboxing video on Twitch; that it went from Temp HP to real HP due to playtest feedback.

Downside would be that some internet providers block torrenting via port number control (colleges & universities have been doing this) and other methods; so it might end up causing issues. I know Blizzard had to work around similar issues by custom creating a different torrent program (why...

KK, thank ya. That last part doesn't make much sense to me; if the mods affect the core system in ways that ripple back to character abilities; doesn't that by definition affect character abilities?

I also think I'm pretty done with responding to at least one person in this thread based on their very biased and flat out insulting comments towards the playtesters. Good to know we that don't count because we don't agree with you. (The thread linked below has repeated posts along this line)...

I'll probably scan them and PDF them if they aren't added to the Basic file (assuming they are OK with such things).

Aight, let's take this one at a time 1) EDIT: Confirmed in a post below by Claude, thank ya! (https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/482244757180014593) 2) There are two sets of data; the public playtest data (which contained second wind as temp HP originally) and the closed playtest data. In...

I hope WotC releases their playtest data to the public at some point. :)

Publicly, there's at least one livestream where they talk about playtesters liking actual healing over temp HP far more w/r/t Second Wind; might be the same video that some folks are freaking out about. Alas, can't find it off the top of my head. On a more basic note; ccooke's post pretty much...

Indeed; completely get those who are not a fan of rulings versus rules (I'm paying for you to make me rulings game designers!). I enjoy 5E immensely personally, but I also have multiple groups that are not very rules lawyery / I am enough of an alpha to shout down my rules lawyers.

I'd argue they don't want dwarves and other classes shooting lasers out of their eyes like darkvision and infravision required. ;)

Wish I could say; but even I cannot say too much with confidence because I know things have changed. There are a handful of things I am reasonably sure about, and more things I am decently sure about. Ultimately, for me, I'm waiting for the PHB / MM / DMG (I suspect the DMG will not solve...

In terms of healing, new school (non-magical healing) is several orders of magnitude larger than old school (no non-magical healing). Per actual data. Not people whining on internet boards. Funny how data points out inconvenient truths.

Datawise the amount of people who have non-magical healing as a bugaboo was quite small, surprisingly. (Even bigger shocker; amount of newer players who said that NOT having non magical healing was a dealbreaker) I can tell who grew up in 3E, because they're not used to a system that can be...

You can have an opinion whenever you want. I can point out that having an calcified opinion on something that isn't even released (and on what has been repeatedly pointed out is old data by those who are known to have more recent data) is probably not the most intellectually honest position to...

Funny thing is, people who have never played D&D before call D&D "magic rules" out for being completely immersion breaking and dumb and gamist. Like, the 12 year olds sort of schooled me when they pointed out that the reason I think 3E has versimilitude is because it was the first set of D&D I...