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I certainly hope so. In fact, I hope some of that DMG material makes it into the Basic rules.That would really make it a complete game fore new players. That sounds awesome.

Ok, I'm biting: why do you care so much for DoaM? Does anyone really care what your house rules are?

Given how optional feats are, I'm ok with them being sub-optimal in so many situations, because you can always just take bonus to ability scores.

Randall? Is that you? I bought the starter set the Sunday after it came out, read the rules, and then read the Basic D&D rules. I was quite impressed. I do think that this starter set, coming out a month (little more) before the PHB and the rest of the system gives it additional purposes that...

Not that it matters a whole lot. You're capped at maximum HP (which is explicitly stated), and you have to spend HD to recover. If a Wizard really wants to pump their CON to 20 and take durability, they deserve the extra healing.

I started playing while I was in "A" School after I joined the Navy. It was 1995, probably, when I bought my first books. I don't remember the first book. Likely it was the PHB or some such when I was going to Nuke school in Orlando. Probably got it from the Barns & Noble near the base. I'm...

This has been my understanding of the rules.

It's not present in the Basic Rules and none of the previews we've seen suggest it's there. In all likelihood, it was gone before anyone wrote an open letter about it. I wouldn't surprise me if it was presented in the DMG as an optional rule, given that it takes-up so little space. Or if we saw...

Durable looks worth taking.

Now that I think about it, people do that all the time! I remember unfavorable comparisons between Robert Downey Jr's movie and Jeremy Brett's tv show.

I'm attaching Dale, an Elf Archer (Dex based Fighter w/Archer fighting style). I've played him in the starter set game running at my FLGS. I gave him the Acolyte background to give him some flavor. He worships Corellon by example, using the longbow has his weapon of choice. When forced into...

The actual adventures are, I believe, FR. But the PHB looks like is setting agnostic. It has references to other D&D worlds and real world mythology. This is likely to be the most setting-nutural edition since Wizard's took over. Once Basic is updated with monster/NPC creation and some other...

Well, with 20 cap and a point buy system that won't let buy anything higher than a 15, I think you're right. They're very different from 3.x and 4e ability scores. I think you're right. Right now a +5 to hit (+3 from stat +2 from proficiency) does a good job at first level. Particularly tough...

Yeah, I waved he LA for Tieflings back in my 3.5 games. I don't think WotC had the knack for LA quite right then they first printed them back in FRCS.

Here's the line of line of posts my first post was responding to: It's possible that I'm wrong, but this doesn't look like TrippyHippy (getting it right this time!) is talking about posting the Basic PDF on a POD server.

I certainly don't plan on putting the Basic PDF up on a POD site! As I said before, that's probably illegal. :P

Sorry. I misspelled TrippyHippy's username. Wow, that was really dumb of me. How about this: what do you think about a book publisher who reproduces a concert poster without the copyright owners permission? The publisher is publishing a book detailing the history of a rock band and goes to the...

First, Jurisdiction totally matters, some countries don't recognize copyright protection in foreign works. Second, you said that a DM making copies for their players was technically illegal. It probably isn't. Third, putting the file up for other pay for POD probably is. If you read my first...

Under U.S. law implied consent is a real thing. It's a cornerstone of fair use, which was originally a court created equitable doctrine under U.S. law prior to be codified in 1976 act in §107. Fair use, as codified by Congress, was always meant to be a flexible standard. And, indeed, it's been...