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Watching a game with all of these different races makes me glad that floating ability score mods is the default going forward. So much more variety when the numbers don't penalize you for certain combos.

I guess i missed it saying "whatever background" as a skimmed it over. Certainly an interesting power bump that I can imagine every player I have looking for.

I think that backgrounds giving out multiple bonus feats could be a fine... if every background worked that way. Right now, I think they need to turn off the free-stuff faucet until the edition gets a refresh and all of the backgrounds get boosted in the same way. It feels super lazy and grimy...

Changing format to something that actually costs more to produce in an environment of supply chain issues and wild inflation is a strange move, IMO. The disappointing thing as a fan is that this is likely to be the only non-adventure Spelljammer release, which means that we're stuck with less...

The new format: less pages, more covers between them.

I get that inflation is a thing but they're specifically choosing a format that artificially inflates the price beyond that. Additionally, I don't want 3 full hardcovers taking up space in my condo with only 192 pages of content, regardless of price point. As a guy that takes his books with him...

I have a strange relationship with Dragonlance. I read a lot of the novels when I was young but don't really feel that nostalgic about it compared to Dark Sun or Spelljammer. I am, however, tentatively excited about a mass combat system that would allow games to switch between RPG and mass...

I'm pretty sure there was an episode where they meet non-human kids and they have a whole conversation about one the kids being a 74 year old child. You never see their ears but their elder is named something super elf-ish like "Alfar," implying that they could be wild elves.

Christ, I hope they don't bring back feat chains/ladders.

After years of playing 5e, I still strongly prefer the 3e and 4e method - ASIs AND feats instead of making people choose math over something potentially qualitative. I really dislike design that encourages people to choose math porn over things like the Actor feat.

I can't count how many 5e characters I've built at this point but I've never run a background straight out of the book. I always pick a feature and then 4 tools or languages. If I were designing the system from players like myself, I'd just make the mechanical feature the centerpiece of the...

I think backgrounds should totally give you something tangible and mechanical to put on you sheet. I absolutely do not want that to be a feat or combat feature though. Classes are loaded with combat features, let backgrounds fill a different niche instead of more armor or damage.

That exactly why they're in backgrounds though. The idea is that they're learned from experience instead of being inherited.

Some is looking to change the Power Attack feat to Shock Trooper, I see. Feels like 2007 again.

This pretty much nails it, right in the first response. The rules for any particular non-combat activity are a single roll, yet when it comes to combat you have hit points, armor class, different dice for a range of deadly weapons, a good chunk of the game's spells, hit dice, critical hits...

Thank God.

I remember talk during the playtest of racial features that go all the way to level 20. I really would have liked to see that. It's a lot more work to design than the fly-by-night stat blocks we have now, but it would be pretty interesting.

A small amount of temp hp every round - maybe a less than the twilight domain cleric gives per round - would give you the effect while being useful but not overpowering. Then, a few extra hp on hit dice could round out the idea that there's real healing going on too. I just got my books from...

I hate watching bloviating videos just to learn information that can be communicated in a single image. <shakes cane at sky>

The change already happened. 5e took off like a rocket and people looking for to play the game in a particular way have already been running it that way. 5.5e, or whatever WotC has planned going forward, is a slight course correction to align the game better with the sea change that has already...