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For the newest iteration of this idea, see the bottom of this post. VERSION 1 Shields as they are now are extremly boring. There's no variety, they seem almost like an afterthought. Here I present an alternative take on them. Didn't want to just make pricier shields with better AC (mostly to...

Are they still in the game? Classes chapter doesn't mention them, but they are still descriptors attached to individual spells. Also Read First pdf doesn't say that they were changed or removed.

I think a deck of cards would be more fun than a chart. Cards would represent opportunities that striker takes when dealing a critical hit. For example, a fighter striking a critical hit draws 3 cards and chooses one. Then applies its effects to his attack. Each card would say what extra effect...

I agree with you. From what I've read, combats last rounds. When you think about it, most characters will not score a critical hit in most combats. So when they do, they should do something more than a mere +5 damage or whatnot. I don't know how much unique the effect should be. I'd rather use...

It's not official. But both 2013 and 2015 are unlikely, so....

Probably under disadvantages :P

So you want to know what your eye color is, but you don't need to know if you're white or black?

But it has effect on your character. It determines how your character looks, how he or she moves, how she acts, how he speaks and dresses, and how is adressed by NPCs. Tell me, how the color of one's eyes affects anything in the game?

So use the skill module in your games. You're the person it was invented for.

In 5e, if you had multiple attacks per turn, it would still slow down the game. Even if the bonus to hit was the same, 5e uses maneuvers and combat dice so you have to make a few decisions for each attacks. Arguably, multiple attacks could take more time than they took in 3e.

Extra attacks are probably more fun that bonus damage to a single attack (at least to me), but they also slow down the game considerably. For that reason alone I hope all classes stay with a single attack per turn. I'm fine with exceptions though, as long as they are rare. Fighters right now...

But then we're getting dangerously close to removing skills altogether.

Sorry if I sounded offensive. It wasn't my intention to offend you. I gave it some thought and maybe a way to go is to divide "perception" into skills but not from the standpoint of particular senses. So we could have skills like: Alertness - use your perception to spot dangers before its too...

Only the ideas that are to your liking I see. Many people suggested that perception should not be a skill at all.

Sure, fair enough. But why there's place to put your eye color, but there aren't any for information that's way more noticable, like skin color or....character's age.

That must be it! :D

I was just looking at the character sheet, and something struck me. Why is there a box for writing down the color of your eyes? It's such a minor and totally irrelevant thing. I can understand with hair, they are easily visible on a character and can add to his uniqueness. But eyes? And at the...

You also forgot about possible critical hits. How did you arrive at 91%? Other than that, if your math is correct, I think this is too much. Or maybe monsters' HP is too low, not sure.

But we already have perception, it's called wisdom ability. Every skill related to wisdom should be, by virtue, much narrower in scope. It's like saying that we should only have 2 INT skills: smart and knowledgable. Sure it could work, but I would hate if it was like that. This isn't 3e, where...

Actually, no. Neither martial damage dice nor martial damage bonus can be used more than once per turn. So the 2nd attack from figther's surge will be a mere 1d8+5 in this case. Yes, surge doubles the MDD, but doesn't double MDB. That's -20 damage from what you propose.