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I'm all for as loose an encumbrance system as possible. My ideal system is: 1) There are three pictures in the PHB. One is of an unarmoured person carrying a sword, and with a couple of belt pouches. One is of a person in a chain shirt plus helmet with an axe and round shield, and a backpack...

I went for "People I play with" and "Rules", but it's a bit more complicated than that. Firstly, it wasn't staying with an older edition instead of moving to a new one. It was reverting to an older edition (BECMI) after having moved to new ones (3.0, 3.5, 4e). Secondly, while our group enjoyed...

It depends how you interpret those numbers. It could be that just over half the people want something like that, but they're flexible about how it is implemented. Or it could be that almost everyone wants something like that, but they have mutually incompatible preferences about how it is...

79) There is no such thing as a home campaign. All campaigns must use online tools even if you're sat around the same table. 80) Magic items may be bought and sold at a Real Money Auction House.

64) WotC will trawl through messageboards and compile a list of every rule (or absence or a rule) that has been mentioned by someone as a "dealbreaker". They will then ensure that 5e contains all these rules - especially the contradictory ones.

The problem with using "hit points=physical damage" is that it's a slippery slope. First you decide that hit points should equal physical damage. Then you decide that this makes it unrealistic to have them so inflationary, so you keep the value static. Then you decide that this makes it...

I think it works better if you express "Wants in Core" as a percentage (on an item per item basis) of "Total Votes", rather than simply looking at which ones got the most "Want" votes: 84.3% want Saving Throws 81.6% want Critical Hits 81.3% want Skills 77.8% want Feats 70.6%...

I'm almost certainly in the extreme minority here, but I think race should matter so much that I'm a fan of racial classes. Not just a single "elf" class or "dwarf" class though (although I do like that option too) but multiple classes for each race. An elf who uses magic shouldn't just be the...

So most smaller combats are done simply and the big important ones are done in detail. The player who likes combat to be quick is glad that the lesser combats don't take too long; the player who likes combat to be tactical is glad that the important combats are detailed; and they both put up...

My players have preferences, not demands. They're reasonable and mature adults who would rather play their second choice than not play at all because they have an attitude of "first choice or nothing". Unsurprisingly, that makes it relatively easy for is to play any edition in a way that keeps...

D&D Next. Twice as much d20 as the d20 system. In fact I heard (i.e. just made up) a rumour that the replacement to the OGL will be the 2d20 License. Unfortunately, the logo - a pencil stub and two d20s in a dice bag - looks rather obscene...

Kwalish was one of Tim Kask's characters from Gygax's campaign. He never owned such an apparatus though. Gygax just named it after the character because he thought it would be funny. Melf was one of Luke Gygax's characters - the name stood for "Male Elf". As for the other people with spells...

Yes but there are more knees jerking in this thread than at a Reflexology clinic. One of the points of 5e is that it is going to be modular and - if the authors are to be believed - it will let you play in the style of most of the early editions. People are seeing a report including one...

This sounds very much like I expected. The difference between the magic users seems to tie in with what we've been told in the seminars at DDXP, in that: 1) The default is Vancian spellcasting 2) There are feats (or the equivalent) that let you trade spell slots for things that are more like...

I don't normally mark my books. But I once shared a house with a guy who - to avoid confusion about which books were mine and which were his - wrote my name in my books (without asking first)... I wasn't best pleased.

One big book for the DM that includes everything - effectively a Rules Cyclopedia style book, containing PHB, DMG and MM material. plus One smaller book for the player that only includes the stuff they need. It's not a cut down version in terms of content (playable levels, classes, spells...

It's called Rolemaster. I've seen a 27th level fighter get one-shotted by a 1st level fighter who got really lucky. It changes the game dynamic a lot, in that fights are always something dangerous that you want to avoid if possible, and missile weapons and ambush situations are key to winning...

Something I'd love to see in 5e is a set of flashback rules inspired by those in 3:16 Carnage Among The Stars. Basically the idea is that instead of spending ages coming up with a backstory to your character when you create them, your created character is fairly anonymous with just a name and...

I can see two answers to the issues raised so far. The Easy (and rather glib) Answer Some monsters have save-or-die attacks such as poison or petrification. Some situations (such as falling into lava) may even be die-no-save. There's a side-bar or paragraph in the DMG talking about...

There's a greater than zero chance that at some point I'll try to make it work with the Rolemaster combat tables.