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Really? Ug. I can't think of much I hate worse than achievements in mmos. They picked the wrong thing to emulate imo.

Roll. Point buy is the hobgoblin of little minds. Be Polite. Rudeness is the orc that invokes a threadban. Thanks. -Lwaxy

Because "Orc, hp 4" takes forever to write down.

That's fine sometimes. But sometimes a rival adventuring party loots the tomb of whatsit, they all miss the great chariot race with a hefty gold reward, or whatever. Unless you pause the campaign while they train, they're going to miss out on something, sometime. I'm not going to miss out on...

If A farmer starts a new career as a fisherman, he'd damn well better fish instead of planting corn if he wants to get paid. He's not sandbagging. He's trying to be the best thief he can be. When the fishing is bad, the fisherman can resort to harvesting crops in order to feed his family, but...

I've played and seen played a few dual class characters over the years. They are extremely rare using the standard (non UA) character generation methods. Why would you be sucking exp? You'd have the hitpoints of a first level fighter and - since you have to have at least a 16 dex - you'd be...

Yes. In my experience, you ran another character while your other guy was training. The world does not stop while the pcs train.

Hopefully, they won't.

And twice as long to train with twice the expense. Which means he's likely missing out on some adventures, so he's even further behind in exp.

Oddly enough, my sentiments are the same, though I see it as way too close to 4e for my tastes. The mere fact that both of us, with completely opposite tastes in what we want from a game system, end up feeling the same about the game can't be good.

Agreed, Played as a hackfest, I can see that the G series might be underwhelming, but if the pcs use subterfuge it's a completely different adventure. I've had players take both approaches. The former never ends well.

I never bought a single 3.5 product. The blatant money grab ran my group screaming back to first edition. I thank WOTC for that, at least.

I'd argue that more new gamers come in from word of mouth, recruitment by current players than a new edition will ever draw in. There's 11 people that I play with. Four of us have been playing since the 70s/80s. The others were all introduced to the game by the four of us. Some were friends...

I don't think 5e has much of a chance. It's D&D, so initial sales will be high, then it'll taper off and the suits will be raising hell and firing people. Again. The Pathfinder crowd has Pathfinder. The 4e crowd has 4e. The old school crowd is out there, but 5e will have to rock their socks...

I have little experience with the Ipad, but personally, I don't like the Itunes interface being forced upon me. With Android, I've been able to easily run all kinds of emulators and even interface a wiimote to play games. I've even seen Quake 3 play on an Android. I'm sure that's possible...

Actually, I had a Trash-80 in 1977. The Apple II predates that, I believe.

Android ftw.

I don't know how you got that from my post. A wizard can, by spending most of his spell slots, be a very poor thief, for a very short amount of time. Whoopee. He can go invisible, but he will still make noise and cannot hear noise nearly as well as a thief. If he manages to sneak up on...

Why? It worked for how many years? The spell being cancelled upon any attack is a great limiting factor. It's a great out of combat spell for reconnaissance, and good for the thief to backstab someone, that's pretty much it. There are other limiting factors as well. It's not going to be...