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I want all ability scores to matter, but I want all of them to matter less such that none of them are overwhelmingly important, if that makes any sense. For instance, would love to see attack bonus and AC divorced from ability scores.

I kind of wish they would make a version of D&D without books. I don't need any more books weighing down my shelves. I'll pay the bucks for a beautiful e-resource with fantastic art and layout, hyperlinks, search features, and the like. But even then, I don't want what I read to become invalid...

I don't know if I agree with why *we* don't like 5e, but I have my concerns for a different reason. After having tasted 4e, I never want to go back to an older edition. And 5e seems to basically be killing 4e, and taking us back in time to an infusion of older D&D editions. I'd rather see...

Big Brute - Half-orc, or Half-ogre, or Goliath, or Half-giant (don't really care which, half-orc is fine for me) + Mountain Men Gruff Immovable Object - Dwarf Sneak/Charmer - Halfling + Urban Men Archer/Nature - Elf + Merry Men (Woodsmen) Arcanist/Bookworm - Eladrin + Scholar Men Bad ass -...

Yes, yes it is. I don't think D&D is about kicking the door, killing things, taking their stuff. I don't think D&D is about classes, or magic, or experience. I don't think it's about Magic Missile, Fireball, and Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion. I don't think it's about mapping out a dungeon...

Numbers on a paper. That's all they are, that's all I need out of them. There isn't a Prince of Persia class, or a Samwise Gamgee class, or an Ice Queen class, or a Wolverine class. When creating a character, I come up with a concept (or borrow one), then figure out the mechanics that will...

Why are they asking us this? We have no idea what the order of magnitude will be on monster hit points at high levels. We have no idea how much damage a single attack will do. We have no idea what other classes will be able to do. How am I supposed to make an educated comment on whether...

Yes and yes. I'd prefer a more open ended D&D, where DM's are able, and encouraged to create their own campaign worlds. It's entertaining (and often simple) to play/run in established campaign worlds like Forgotton Realms, Dark Sun, and Eberron, but I believe even WotC said their polls indicate...

Voted no, but was tempted by the don't care button. Don't care who Mordenkainen is, or what a Melf is (I always thought it was mutant elf), and scroch Aganazzar, it's spelled all wrong anyway, looks to me like they meant Nebuchadnezzar (try that, spelling bees!). Don't really understand all the...

I don't see anything wrong with abstraction and letting the DM/Players decide what HP's represent. Maybe my halfling fighter likes to think it is his luck that keeps him alive (I surely couldn't have as many health points as a troll could I?), and he will go to the cleric of tymora for a prayer...

I don't really know what to vote here, but I poked some buttons anyway, based more on concept than actual agreement with the poll choice... This poll seems to make the assumption that hit points are your "health bar". I don't see it that way. I see it as just another defense, whether it be...

Organized play rules are about balance both within characters, and within the ways characters interact with challenges. If the system is balanced that is all organized play needs. Balance of course is a touchy subject. Some people don't want balance. But the fact of the matter is, if a paladin...

I voted 5. We don't know what we want. Too many voices, too many opinions, not enough pig picture visions. The only people who can be making educated decisions are the ones behind the designing wheel. I think they are the most important piece of the machine.

I voted for: Action Points - love the concept of action points, fate points, whatever you want to call them, but I'd like the application to be a little more than "I action point and second wind" or "I action point and Twin Strike again". I'd like action points to be used to create cinematic...

Both are important to me. I want my archer to be able to competently snipe down a single guard before he can sound an alarm. I shouldn't need the entire team hurling weapons and spells to finish off the guard I just dinked with an arrow. I also want my archer to be a able to fill a troll with...

I'd be happy with 20 levels in the core book. H1-H10, and P1-P10, which would be heroic levels where you are local heroes saving villages and towns, and paragon heroes where your deeds impact kingdoms or entire races. Then they can come up with an apprenticeship levels expansion for A1-A5, and...

I'm finding it difficult to keep negativity out of my posts. I do try though. I re-read and delete lines that would be construed as negative more often than you might think, and frequently click back without posting what I typed up due to the volume of snide comments strewn across my post. So...

I feel like I missed DDXP. I was there, I did the play test. Your experience in all aspects but one, is nothing like mine. Either I got a seriously bum DM, or the rules are in a very loose and open to interpretation state. The only part I had the same experience is, yeah, level 1 is not about...

I'd be happy ditching magic items all together but I guess then it wouldn't be D&D without a +5 holy avenger. Don't really care what happens with slots, so long as game balance doesn't depend on magic items. The artificial limit of X magic items might work very nicely for something like LFR...

I'm perfectly happy with power upgrades, if it means keeping the character sheet clutter-free. As a matter of fact, this would be my preferred means of progression. I don't want a million powers on my character. I just want a few that get better as I level up. I've been really appreciating the...