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I've never gotten the chance to play it, but In A Wicked Age sure reads like it would lend itself well to adventure! Though probably not a classic dungeon crawl, no.

Dunno about that. They're going to want to keep some surprises for the actual books. Hopefully pleasant ones!

Thinking about this some more, silo-ing effects within something like invocations might work well for the bard. So, say you take the Illusion "invocation" (or whatever it ends up being called). You start out with Silent Image or whatever, but as you gain in levels it automatically upgrades to...

You know, it sounds crazy at first blush, but there might be something to this. A lot of design space is unavailable because wizards (and sorcerers, and now warlocks) can use the entire Arcane list. Not that the idea of a scholarly user of magic should be ditched, but the idea that such a...

So we can't have anything in the core books to help new players - the very people who won't know to get the free supplement? Because that would cheat you out of your hard-earned cash? Darn newbies should just pull their socks up and dive in the deep end! That's what we did in the 80's and we...

I really wouldn't mind backing the bard way off from casting from slots. It just doesn't feel like the way they do things... I'd like to see a bard whose singing and playing is magically charged, but who isn't casting spells per se. Potentially you could even be a magical bard without realizing...

I don't think that sorcerers should really need material components at all (except in rare cases where the material component is part of the whole point, like Magic Jar). They're living fonts of magic, they shouldn't need that kind of thing. Verbal and somatic, sure, shaping their magic takes...

How? Sure sounds like you can't get even two 9th level spells, let alone four.

Allies and enemies seems easy enough... Anyone in the area that the wizard considers an ally or enemy at the time of casting is treated as one. If he can't see them, then he's not intending to include/exclude them, so the spell does the default - which is probably to include for a spell intended...

He wasn't, actually. One of his descendants' self-loathing dressed up as him to berate him. The movie is quite good, well worth watching. I was pleasantly surprised.

And in another thread OneD&D is being called too simple. You really can't please everybody.

Don't get me started on Interstellar. :) They got some great physics advice, though I still have some nits to pick. But couldn't they have shown the script to a chemist, too? That movie is riddled with chemistry howlers!

Very good point. If hit points aren't immersion breaking, I don't know what would be! We're just used to them, that's all. That said, while suspending disbelief is a choice, that choice can be easy or hard. :p If something presents itself as straight science fiction (as opposed to space opera...

It seems very clear that "Elminster" was just a projection of his own insecurity. That's why he transformed into Simon's own image when confronted. It's a classic Jungian "shadow" trope.

I'd be completely down for both of those. The Next playtest actually did make Turn Undead a spell, and I loved it! Why have a whole different subsystem when it isn't necessary? But apparently it was too sacred a cow for people to accept making into hamburger. Wildshape is another obvious...

Now?! Seriously?

On the contrary, I wish the traditional spell schools would just die. They're either too broad or too narrow, and most of them are too vague. Almost none them really support any variety of traditional wizard. I love the classic illusionist too (gnomish thief-illusionists ftw!) but do recall...

Likewise, I'm hoping for something similar to the Beguiler rather than a straight Illusionist. Not holding my breath, though.

I'm thoroughly disappointed that wizard traditions are still spell schools. And to put a cherry on top, apparently half the schools will be missing from the PHB!

There's various ways to view it. Strictly speaking, the player chooses, not the character. 1. Your patron hasn't fully revealed itself yet. At 3rd level, you find out you've made a pact with a demon (or whatever). 2. Alternatively, you know what your patron is from day 1, but you're too small...