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Hasn't it always worked this? I am pretty sure this common sense approach was how it was in 3x

Thank you for the update. I thought I remembered that, but I didn't want to state it as gospel :)

Cool story bro. However, after 35 years of Vancian magic, I'm pretty sure THAT is more D&D than non-Vancian magic. I never found it to be boring accounting. Also, 5e isn't on schedule until next year, so they won't have any stuff out this year. No "might" about it. I am happy you found your...

They may not NEED OGL, but they do NEED outside support. They need to get someone putting out some serious adventure paths and stand alone adventures. It's not their strength, to put it mildly. Someone correct me if I am not remembering correctly, but wasn't a requirement of the 4e license...

I was probably exposed to (and didn't care much for) anime before some of the posters in this thread were able ride a bicycle :) I watched Vampire Hunter D and Akira long ago, and it was "ok". I watched Speed Racer in the 70s, and it was cool when I was 5, but it didn't age well. I've tried...

And what you do in your game is fine by me. If you want to have robot monkeys firing chain guns at motorcycle riding hippos with 12 ft stone great swords, that is fine with me. I just don't want to see that, personally, in the core game.

I think I freely admitted to being a grognard who doesn't want D&D to change to the latest fads. I will freely admit to holding them hostage with my money. If they want my money, they'll make a game I like. If they make a game full of oversized swords, WoW-style aggro, Psionic Dragon...

Pern is new? I was reading Pern 25+ years ago, soon after I started with D&D. The first book was published pre-D&D (1968), I would hardly lump it in as modern. As a grouchy old man, I am perfectly happy leaving all of those you reference out of D&D. Harry Potter and Dresden are both set in...

If I had my choices: Malazan - Different warrens of magic. Magic in the Malazan Book of the Fallen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Black Company - only difference between a top end wizard and a hedge wizard is the amount of time it takes them to do something. Any minor wizard, given enough...

Let me make it more clear for you then. In World of Warcraft, there is no GM, thus no one to make decisions on who attacks whom. As such, they would have to either program in "Creature X always attacks spellcasters" "Creature Y always attacks fighters" etc etc. This would be easily defeated...

It should be handled by the DM as always. No mechanic is needed, this isn't World of Warcraft.

I thought they sold magic on every corner? Isn't that one of the complaints listed here? A wizard can just locate any spell he wants at any time? Why can't a rogue find a potion of fly?

Based on the last 10 years of WotC history...they will likely look mediocre :( Beyond that sad reality, I'm hoping they don't try to pack everything into each adventure. I'd rather see either core only adventures or ones planned with certain features expected.

Personally, I wouldn't be interested in playing in any of those type of campaigns. No offense, but not a one of them speak to me. About the only campaign settings I'd be interested in, beside homebrew, Golarion, Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk would be Malazan or the Black Company setting...

My 3e sheet is a single page, double sided. That includes everything including space for biography stuff.

Remove automatic spell scaling, and # of spell slots isn't a huge issue. 5 1d4+1 magic missiles is not game breaking. (5 5ds4+5 is obviously much better) 5 5d6 fireballs at level 20 isn't a big deal. (5 10d6 fireballs, bigger deal) Not remove, but Scrolls shouldn't be freebies. I'd rather see...

I like the simplicity of that method. Not sure how it would work in play without some hard caps on bonuses. Seems like it might be easy to get huge bonuses and throw the math out of whack

Dislike. Despise. Loathe. And everyone knows CLW wands are a terrible investment. Wands of Lesser Vigor is the way to go. (1d8+1 (max 9) vs Fast Healing 1 for 11 rounds(always 11)) ALmost every 3.5 party I've been in has 1. *1*, not a backpack full. Just 1. It's used for emergencies, or...

I'm hoping for alignment restrictions that make sense. LG Paladins Chaotic Barbarians Neutral Druids

Not even a little. For me, I'd be happy with a fighter usually winning However. the fighter stands there and let's the wizard empty both barrels (so to speak)? The wizard should win every time. It doesn't have to be either the fighter wins every time OR the wizard wins everytime. The fighter...