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Personally I make GWF +2 damage and duelist +1 attack.

Potential balance issues and pacing problems aside they take up a huge portion of design space and go about in a very uninspired fashion. They are spell casting 'the class'. narratively it's hard to image why they are doing the adventuring life thing last a build up to become a BBEG. All full...

Yes but it's slightly randomized via dice rolls/ ability checks.

setting aside the issue of positioning on/off a grid it's one of the best shredders available. Upcasts well, no save(bypasses LR), multiple ticks per round, rarely resisted, and widely available.

It's fun to tinker? I make changes to my games with the goal for a better play experience for players. So far a spalsh of DR has been received well so why not expand it some more? Not like the armor system is overly complex as a base rule.

See i don't think it ever grows to useless for the exact reasons why people think DR could be an issue. One of the strong points of 5e is that you never grow out threats so a lot of goblins could potentially kill you even at lv 20 so a moderate amount of DR wouldn't break this paradigm as long...

We do have a little bit of a baseline with the H armor master feat. I don't believe anyone has claimed it broke the system so DR can work within a certain tolerance.

DR does slow down combat a tad but I haven't seen a big issue with it yet. It's faster than doing the math for resistance by a long shot. A variant I've been playing with bit haven't paned into anything solid is DR reduces the static damage added to damage so they keep the random variable of...

You just need a soft cap on reduction. So even if your DR could reduce it to 0 it deals X damage.

As someone who came up with a similar system it does change the overall feel of how HP works. I personally still kept the general AC ranges of armor the same due to this. Light armor ranges from 11-13+dex, medium armor ranges from 12-15+ dex(with caps) with DR ranging from 1-3, and heavy ranges...

Well I rarely call for saves the players know they can make so most of the time dice are hitting the table but if the only factor is conditionally null then I'd let's the player decide due to some features are based on passing saves like fey and monster rangers

In the majority of my settings orcs are the byproduct of elfs in trances. They the consolidation of deep emotions, thoughts, and feelings. Due to how elves connect to the fey wild they can appear practically anywhere and at any age. Most cultures see them as good luck and freely intergrade them...

Setting aside the Asian nesting doll issues regardless of how they choose to address race or lineage, it's a pretty solid mix of good mediocre and bad. I'm really curious if they're going to move feats from optional to core how much time they're going to spend balancing in them. They gave up...

Fit- artificer. New guy on the block and takes some work to get to jive in some settings. Cue the battle music Finish- barbarian. Just seems to split the base on the impact of both the chassis and it's efficiency. Flavor - ranger. Threads become metaphysical every time they're brought up...

Aye. Formatting is 90% of the issue. Most of the other issues would iron out if they presented the game in a way that didn't take flipping to 30 different pages and highlighting hidden verbage to catch the nuances that make 5e work.

Honesty a str/dex split thief rogue can be a monster. They are disruptive to just about any tactic the enemies can come up with while maintaining a decent damage output. As for pop culture references just look for any crafty thug. Mix intimidation, stealth, strength, and dirty tricks. Heavy on...

Hard question because I took part in the next play test but when 5e official released I ran it as close to RaW as I logically could for about 6 months before I started tinkering.

I give them away about as fast as I can aquire them. I have a bunch of friends and acquaintances in TFA and such so if they see someone who is showing interest but lack the resources I send a package that has at least the PHB, PC sheets, dice, and what ever else I can find.

If buying for reasons other than personal use I just bought 3 PHB yesterday lol.

You are missing the point. The 6-8 count is only applicable in relation to the exp budget suggestion not the general overall game design. It's a rough guess on how much a party can handle resource wise. It's saying a party can  HANDLE X not a party MUST DO X. The general guidelines are hidden...