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I can see where you're going there, but that means having to refer to 3 books to create my character at launch. How many books do I need to reference 3 years into the game?

Check out my proposed system here. The Theme Class should give you what you want, I think. Let me know what you think of it.

I originally started my current world by being mildly frustrated with the gods available. I didn't want historic pantheons and the gods for the base game and published setting were just... too... sensible. All of their portfolio was too logical for me. I liked the gods of historical myth that...

I just had shudders being reminded of that book. It wasn't their fault, they were building off of 2E. But please, for the love of Thor, do NOT bring back facing! Not even as an option!

Rule 0 needs to be there, but we have to be clear as to WHY it is there. Don't let the rules get in the way of the fun. It should be used generously to handwave away certain situations that just don't need to take game time, e.g. "They are simple goblins, you guys are 12th level. It takes you 2...

Speaking of Win spells, there is also the flip side. If the wizard had a Win spell and didn't use it, then somebody dies, then somebody is going to feel let down. That makes it hard to save spells for later use.

I stopped playing 4E a couple years back, so I have to ask, how do they describe a fire elemental? Is it living pure fire? Then it should be fire-immune. Is it a type of creature closely associated with fire, but physical? Then it should have fire resistance. At least fire damage matches up...

Add to each of those chapters, "How to do it the wrong way" with nightmare stories.

Oh, absolutely. If you attack and leave, you leave the enemy ready and on high alert. But even so, the characters have resources the monsters simply don't. They can choose the time and location of the attack. They can bring in long-range artillery strikes, while the gnolls arrows can wound but...

This seems to assume that the monsters know 1) if the adventurers are coming back and 2) how long it will be. If your town is attacked by goblins, would the town send its best fighters to go attack a random group of monsters? No, they would hunker down and see if another attack is coming. I'm...

So hard to say. Here's my breakdown by preference: 1. The game is very generous with "fuzzy" definitions, allowing you to describe wizardy powers as psychic or psychic powers as magic or whatever. Then, if the campaign doesn't warrant psionics, the classes are still usable with a shift in...

Except, of course, when the enemies DON'T have magic, or much magic. That group of ogres and gnolls can only bolster their defenses physically, and what they can accomplish in 12 hours is pretty crappy compared to freshly rested adventurers.

People seem to be just running with the idea of how 5E is going to be modular, and some of these predictions seem over-the-moon. What do we, as a community, see as things ripe for modularity? I am going to assume that the goal is to achieve characters that can move between different D&D tables...

You bring up a good point. Sometimes the problem with casters wasn't the raw damage dealt, sometimes it boiled down to parity of game time. "It Jen's turn? Well, I guess I'll go take a walk for a while." I like the idea of a mechanic where could take a short rest a la 4E and regain a spell or 2...

I think they can use it, but only in such vague ways that the 2 products will still seem totally unrelated. They could do a campaign setting of, say, Alara and I would be interested in looking at it. But other than a physical description and some historical elements, the world of D&D takes place...

I would suggest that when 5E does come out, we'll all say, "Huh. I hadn't thought of doing things that way." Followed quickly by, "Those guys at Wizards are geniuses!" or "Guess I won't be buying this POS."

I generally agree that there can be a lot in a game system that can be presented as broken with math, but never or rarely appears at the game table. That's the Occam's Razor for games, have I actually seen this at the table? I have seen the 20 minute adventuring day at my table. I'm the DM and...

I believe I've read that they will NDA.

I have a pseudo-mechanic for that in my game, called legend. Things can acquire power of their own by accumulating history and legend around them. You can't make that. This also means that an item created from legend doesn't have to be masterwork, for instance. I have a second pseudo-mechanic...

Replace a hybridization system with a race-making system and there, done. You can now create a new race to replace the standard half-elf, but you can also make a new race that isn't a hybrid, or make sub-races. With assumed cherry-picking built into the race-making rules, no set of options...