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When I first saw this thread, I thought, sure why not change Half-Elf to Elven Heritage. Whatever floats your boat. Then I realized that Elven Heritage sounds more like a feat than a race. I think I like that idea. Obviously, it would have to be restricted to 1st level characters. It would...

Yes, but they addressed that. You simply wouldn't roll. If you are that good at something compared to the relative difficulty, you simply succeed. I think that's a WONDERFUL innovation for people who want to specialize in something other than murder. After all, if I'm the top thief in the world...

I'm a little dizzy from turning around so much. Before XP, I was really gung-ho. Couldn't be more excited. Then after the first seminar I was so disappointed it threw me into a bad funk, I felt devastated. Now, after getting much more information from the latest seminar, I am back to feeling...

I like the concept. There are some potential pitfalls, so hopefully they'll be wise enough to avoid these. The first is if they aren't implemented equally. If you rarely have to make a Cha save and don't Cha in you class you have a dump stat. Dump stats are bad design. Also, with the saves being...

I don't know the 4E implementation here, it was after I had stopped playing it. But I can tell you something that happened, in real life, in a game in either 1E or 2E. For a while, there were quite a few character deaths and suddenly we realized that this made the party more powerful. How, you...

My deal-maker is a 2-classes system, with fully independent options. From what we now know, there will be class and theme. So, without knowing how it's implemented, I can't say for sure yet. It looks promising, though.

Well, it looks like I may have to go back on what I've said before. With the new information out there, it looks like 5E will the game I play. Themes separate choice from class? Check. Skills relevant, but not limiting? Check. From what I've gathered so far, it looks like I might have done it a...

What do you want to bet that every character sheet is at least subtly different, in order to identify/scare the players?

Yeah, we're talking about relativity in design. The damage comparison will NOT be in the book.

My impression so far of what we've learned of 5E is that I might have to make my perfect edition myself. This coming from the guy who was super-excited 2 days ago. My perfect edition doesn't come down to level of this rule or that rule. My edition has a simple to conceptualize but hard to...

A variation on the "yes, but" system might be an adaptation that could move social encounters away from an on/off result. This was used in a couple indie games. The basic concept is there are 4 levels of outcome, instead of 2. If the player wins the roll by a lot, he gains authorship and...

Nope. This is 1E. I want this to be a brand new D&D but so far all they've shown me is my father's Oldsmobile.

This doesn't strike me as a problem at the table. Maybe it doesn't seem realistic, but then again your heroes never get lice or intestinal parasites. It fits within suspension-of-disbelief.

Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed or maybe somebody pissed in my Cheerios, but I've been a bit down since reading about the classes. Color me disappointed that WotC essentially took the idea of 2 classes and said, "Let's implement this in the worst way possible!" The concepts we've...

I have been playing D&D for 30 years. It is because I love it so much that I want to see a 5E that does it justice. If their vision of the best D&D possible is a dusted off 2E, then I think the designers have given up. We can unite the best of D&D while still moving in a forward direction!

I can answer that easily. Because of X. (I will come back and fill in X when I know more about 5E).

I would be right there with you if money wasn't a frequent problem. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume the base books will be about $50 retail and be able to find them for about $40-45. If I get the base 3 books, then there all the expansions. I'm not obligated to buy them, but I have a...

I'm just telling you how it was in 1E. Remember, 1E didn't make a lot of sense a lot of the time. There was a random table of prostitutes, after all.

FWIW, more race stat blocks and less fluff. I have a rich and varied history for the races in my game that doesn't match the PHB. Give enough for those playing "setting-less" but a full page of fluff is certainly not necessary if the PHB is as thick as I think it's going to be. This book also...

Because a 1E paladin required a 17 Charisma. If you could't make a 17 Charisma (vanishingly unlikely with the standard stat generation method), then you played a cleric as much like a paladin as you could.