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The first thing I dislike about stat caps is, as I mentioned earlier, it doesn't seem to add anything to the game but rather subtract from it. It says "no" instead of "yes" for no reason I can see. But the second thing I dislike about it is that it smacks of lazy design. Make the system balanced...

That's fine, but I respectfully disagree.

My concern from reading somebody or others tweets was about how the players approached things. It seemed that somebody was fighting the bad guys while another was trying to bluff them while another was trying to rationalize with them. I'm all for a group trying to approach a problem from...

True. I just see deriving a bonus from a stat as an unnecessary step. We need less total numbers to look at, not more.

Nope, that's what they said. I don't think it's proposed as the Wizard says he wants to make the jump and the DM says he falls to his death, but the Wizard says he wants to make the jump and the DM says that he just can't make it unless he finds some way to make the jump easier for him. Of...

I hear what you're saying, and you're opinion is perfectly valid, but I look at it a different way. When I get to level 15, I want to feel like a level 15 Dwarf FIghter Noble, not like a level 15 Fighter who chose Dwarf and Noble just for some quick bonuses. In other words, I want the 3 parts to...

Well, the 5E take on it, according to the plan they're currently thinking on, is that whenever you want to attempt a skill, you only get a roll if there is a question of success or failure. Otherwise, you automatically succeed or automatically fail (or just don't attempt). The 16 Str fighter...

I'm not offended, but I still don't get where you're coming from. If my higher level Dwarf has gained abilities to sense distance underground, direction, bonuses to stonecraft, bonuses to appraise, gemcrafting bonuses to social skills involving Dwarves, which class does that funnel him to?

Maybe, but who says it will be only by feats?

My thought/preference is that there are on derived modifiers from ability scores. You add the entire ability score. Otherwise, the number itself is meaningless, as it was meaningless in 3E and 4E. In 3E and 4E, your ability score might as well be 2 instead of 14, because you will use the 2 and...

I think it was implied that skills are more tied to theme than class. Absolutely humans should get racial bumps. I'm thinking along the lines of "I picked this up along the way" to represent their versatility.

This is a good point. If the game appeals to women, then it doesn't matter if guys actually like it or not. They will play it.

My thought is that skill will be D20 + the entire stat + bonuses. This will have number going up to reach a target but is mechanically similar to rolling under your stat. I am not at all convinced there will be such a thing as modifiers derived from stats. I scaling in numbers is slow, like...

This isn't from a D&D edition but: It is possible to die during character creation.

1. Heck, I was only considering options at 1st level. At 2nd level things can get really wild. 2. We don't know that themes are less complicated.

Ummm... all of the above? If I had to pick one, if I could only pick just one...then I'd play a different game.

No, the quick and dirty way to simulate it in 5E will be to select the Elf race, the Elf class and the Elf theme. Then, you'll essentially have simulated race-as-class.

Is this necessary? Stats have natural caps as it is. You can't have higher than X from character creation and you can never get more than Y from level increase for a total of Z. What does a stat cap lower than Z accomplish for the mechanics or story? In what way does that make a better game?

Not quite as bad as "who'd gonna be the cleric" is "who's gonna be the rogue." It isn't hard to find somebody who wants to be the rogue, but it is still damn annoying that the game assumes the choice because somebody has to do the trapfinding and lock opening. Come to think of it, I once played...

"Those are covered with the way races are split out from class now." Now? You mean, as in the last 30 years?