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Assuming you are playing without Rule 0. Which no sane DM ever would.

Yeah I ran a many-year long 4e campaign and even the hardcore tactical players just barely used rituals until just recently despite me encouraging their use from the beginning.

Options are fun for players, and help them feel like what is on the sheet matches what is in their mind. I don't see myself taking any options off the table across the board. Except Dragonborn, they are uh.. not to my taste.

I think the most significant change from 3 to 5 is the integration of some of the workday changes that went into 4 and a de-emphasis on magic items and complexity. Also, hopefully it is easier to design encounters for. But this is also Basic, some of the fiddly stuff might be back as options.

I am pleased both with how the rules currently look and also just to have new rules to play with. I'll cheer to that.

A Wizard based by a melee combatant should have problems. Does not seem like an issue.

I have not noticed more negativity than in previous editions. We were griping about D&D being broken and boring back in the 80's as well. The only difference is now there is the internet so the tiny, tiny minority of the most invested and argumentative fans can nit-pick in public and give the...

My thought was 'Wow that fireball is strong, might have to play a wizard some time.' My second thought was 'mwahaha I can't wait to have an Orc fireball the PCs'. All of these things are relative to the monsters they can expect to fight. In previous editions while there were some killer...

I'm not entirely sure why they went with CR instead of Level since in the end as with 4th you are looking for the monster level to be similar to the player level. But it does not matter really, the system described sounds pretty straight forward. I just hope the combat runs fast enough to get...

This is Basic D&D. Basic. Until the standard and modular portions are available, it's not time to start complaining that character concept X is not possible. Personally, I thought the TWF rules are a step up from the 4e model which was very constrained in a desire to make all styles...

Needed? I doubt it. Major boost though it may be we have no idea how big a difference that will practically make at that level or how it will compare to other characters or the Fighters place on a team. And if we are talking max level then they have been through hundreds of encounters. Even...

Well it's not a CRPG, if you can talk your DM into it, anything is possible. Weather it should be possible, that may be another story.

This was explicitly addressed by Mearls in the Q and A, the game is not being written for theorycrafters who want desperately to break it or people who want to argue on the internet about hypotheticals. It is written for players and DMs who play it to have fun. Reasonable, average players will...

Is this ghost of a horse still being flogged? The only way this would happen is if the DM and all the players want it to happen, in which case who cares? The only thing that needs to be done to 'solve' this terrible problem is if Mr. Fighter says he is taking a second rest the DM says "Ok...

I agree with that, one of my players who did not follow the beta was like "They totally backtracked on 4e!" but when you look closely there are still a lot of touches in there particularly in the 'work day' rules (cantrips, spell slots, short rests etc.) It really looks like they tried to take...

I am guessing 15+ as well, with level based stat increases it will still be possible to sacrifice being great at one thing for being good at a bunch of things. Without that sacrifice it would be a 'no brainier' for some playstyles to always dip. Also since the stats can't be bumped past 20...

This image kicks ass. 8/10 would view again.

If you think about it it does not matter if the conversion is actually accurate so long as it is consistent. You could even say that 1lb = 1kilo. So long as a sword is 5 units and your player can lift 200 units then in either case you can still only lift 40 swords (carefully!). You can get...

I'm fine with it. I know some have a fondness for greyhawk but it has no character in my mind beyond the trappings of dnd in general. The realms is much more identifiable for better or worse. Also it is generic enough that modifying it to fit homebrew should be pretty simple.

Nah, I think it's reasonable from real-world examples (Greek gods look like Greeks? Amazing!) but also remember that this is fantasy land. People have probably run into the gods and chatted with them. And when they do that, why wouldn't they appear in the image of their worshipers? Hell they...