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This isn't a massive departure from Kobold Press' general marketing material, particularly from their Black Flag playtest documents. While their statements seem gauged by their lawyers to be true enough to not allow lawsuits, they are pushing a certain narrative very heavily. The insinuations...

Indeed. Low-level spells used as utility are enablers, often just giving auto-success or greater results for an ability check. As higher level spells are introduced, their capabilities start to accelerate beyond the realms of what non-spellcasters can hope to achieve. As characters get to higher...

True. We went on a slight digression when someone claimed that the suggested extra feats would all be spend on combat feats, but in general I think the idea for the extra feats is to improve the out of combat capabilities. I'm not thinking fighting against each other. Just how well each would...

Hasn't been specified. Generally people will pick BM if they want to show that Fighters are good in combat because it is very optimisable. I don't know much about Echo Knight.

It is a thread about whether feats work as a potential solution to the adventuring performance disparity in some classes. Adventuring performance includes use of resources, both at the character build level (feat and spell choice for example) and at the actual daily level, such as Action Surge...

Limited resources are still resources available to be used. If you want to compare what a class is capable of in a day of adventure, you need to base it on what a class is actually capable of. Not using spells and other abilities in the comparison would be as like comparing fighter and...

. . . and how about out of melee? Out of combat? Would you care to explain this claim? By 13th level, the Fighter will probably have run out of feats that are going to actually improve them in melee quite a while ago, and both the Paladin and Bladesinger will likely have caught up. You...

The issue that I see in the current version is that feats don't tend to scale well, particularly the utility feats, which are the ones most important to try to make up the difference between martials and casters. The Skilled or Prodigy feats, which can counter the general tendency for casters to...

The ability to spend spell slots to improve Wild shape is a good one, and helps allow the (Moon) Druid to be a fully functional melee monster character in wildshape without the issue of having this and full casting. I think it is fine for a druid to be able to keep up with the barbarian in melee...

It is a bit of a balancing act. People seem to want a non-moon druid to be more effective (damage and survivability) in combat than a caster class just running off cantrips (or other at-will attacks), but not as good as a wildshaped Moon Druid. Then you need wildshaped Moon Druids to be better...

Ooof. Yep. Curse of Strahd would not be suitable for a group if they maintain that sort of attitude. On the other hand, I can't see a game like call of Cthulhu going any better if the players insist on playing overpowered murderhobos either. You can take the "overpowered" out of the game, but...

Are all of them complaining that you are hamstringing their characters, or just the casters? If you are running a several encounters, and they decide to break off to take a long rest, ask them what they are doing for the rest of the day. Since you can only take one long rest in any 24 hour...

What sort of feedback about the gritty rest mechanics are you getting? Is the issue conceptual (doesn't make sense that you don't get spells back each day) or based on the power that the characters will lose? Have you pointed out that there is little effective difference between gritty rest and...

Barbarian combat performance is good, although a little too based on just rolling attack and damage rolls. What I would really like to see in 1D&D are some interesting options for outside combat.

You maybe have an opportunity to test drive the gritty rest variant. Your party are approaching a Necropolis: a place of death and horror. You could introduce an environmental effect that the Necropolis is creating that extends for miles into the surrounding lands that causes fitful sleep...

The current system rewards players with access to the Monster Manual and the time to peruse it. Let alone other supplementary materials. (Never run an encounter with Bristled Moorbounders in against a party with a druid in it.) "More scope for abilities and mechanical customisation in wild...

That's the thing: you aren't taking creativity away from players. You are taking the system mastery barrier away in exchange for imagination. You will no longer have to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the available options, and will have much more freedom to flavour according to your...

To me, showing the way that sustained fear, loss, and trauma can push some people into extremism is an interesting facet, and not one explored much elsewhere.

I'm not played out on 5e any more than I'm played out on BECMI. I will look at a new version of D&D when it comes out and make a decision about it when I see it.