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Sure, I can live with that. I initially wanted those rare races to appear in supplements, but I'm sort of leaning to a core where everyone gets the races they want. It's easier to just say 'no dragonborn' for the group that doesn't want them than for the group that does want them to have to...

I find it kind of funny how 'advanced rules' usually entail more complicated rules, when from my experience it's the other way around. To me, more experienced players actually prefer to have fewer rules, since they've gotten accustomed to how things should be handled and can make stuff up on the...

Well, the classes they're going to include so far are: Barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, paladin, psion, ranger, rogue, sorcerer, warlock, warlord and wizard. In addition to those, I would like to get an arcane trickster base class and some sort of fighter/mage base class...

I believe this is what they're trying to achieve with themes.

I think they should draw on inspiration from the scout class in 3.5; the warrior that focuses on indirect combat, skirmishing and speed. He'd be good at getting in some hits and getting out of the fray quickly. He'd maneuver around the battlefield to get into a good position, but wouldn't rely...

How much variety do you need? I, for one, don't need to get twelve different types of slightly different ability scores just because gold dragons need to be better than the rest and white dragons need to suck. Their variety should come from their behavior and tactics, not their stats. To me...

By no means do we need an entry for each color of a dragon for every single age category. It's ridiculous and takes up way too much space. What I want is a standard entry for a dragon of each age category. Then, at the beginning or the end of the dragon section we'd have a small subsection...

I really want all three pillars to be as viable when constructing an adventure. Just like there's adventures with mostly combat, so should it be possible to create good adventures with mostly exploration. However, I don't want to see a lot of new rules to deal with exploration and roleplay since...

I'd be cool with either option to be honest. I like the idea of the archetypical Lawful Good paladin and that it's somewhat of a challenge to play. To me it's a part of classic D&D. I also like the idea of a class that serves as a champion of various gods and ideals, good or evil. I think not...

I guess. I'm all for D&D having weird stuff instead of being just stereotypical medieval fantasy. A part of its charm is how it combines so many different elements like Arthurian knights, Lovecraftian horrors and oriental kung fu masters. But for some reason I just wasn't a huge fan of the...

I was never a fan of how every race except humans got +2 to two attributes and no penalty in 4th. It felt wrong, even if humans were still a good race. +2 to two attributes and -2 to a third sounds fine to me. You can still play an unusual character like a halfling barbarian or a half-orc...

I like exotic races like dragonborns, tieflings and devas, but I'm not so sure they should be in the core rulebook. I think they'd be perfect in the second player handbook, where we can get into races and classes that are a bit weirder.

I have played AD&D, 3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder and 4th edition. I am currently playing Pathfinder, but I intend to switch to 5th edition once it comes out as I think it will fix a lot of the things I find wrong with the other systems.

Well, themes and backgrounds have so far been a pretty mixed bag for me. I love the idea behind them and how it's an easy way to give the same class tons of flavor options. What I don't like is how they can just be completely ignored. If a theme/background is just a few feats and class skills...

This is just a place to gather ideas on how to allow the fighter to help the party in non-combat situations. Please feel free to post your own. A bigger emphasis on smashing, lifting, pushing and pulling things in the core rules - This might seem odd at first. This kind of stuff has always been...

I agree. Just like how the fighter shouldn't be completely inept in social situations or exploration.

Well, there are only a few dealbreakers I have for D&D. For me, D&D has to be an RPG set in some sort of fantasy setting and have: -Multiple classes for players to pick from. -Multiple races for players to pick from. -Arcane and divine magic. -Classic D&D monsters. -Combat, exploration...

An idea that might work is if multi-classing is to handle it with kits/archetypes. Each class would have a kit where it gained aspects of another suitable class, but lost some in return. Like, the barbarian could get the following kits: skald (bard multiclass), shaman (druid multiclass) and...

But there won't be over a hundred spells to remember. You could have around 20-30 for the wizard, and with a glance you could see how they'd progress from level to level. Spell write-ups might get a bit longer, but the overall page count and stuff to learn would be a LOT shorter. We're talking...

Apparently, 5th edition is going to have vancian spells scale in power based on the spell slot they're prepared in rather than the caster's level. Would it be possible to have most, if not all, of the spells available at first level? Let's take Fireball, for instance. It could start out as a...