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Ask yourself: "As a player would my wizard ever cast this spell with these limitations given all the other 5th level (and lower, empowered) options available to me?" It sounds like you would need to succeed on a touch attack roll, then have the target fail on several saves in a row, otherwise...

And lord knows, that's not possible in 5E. That's why no one has ever successfully played the game.

Looks nice. Dragon masks.. is that a little Skyrimish?

It might just come down to some people like firm authoritarian rules in their imagination games and some don't. I wonder if people who prefer the 5e approach are more Cat people than Dog people?

For a climb, a failure is a fall which if you were high up and did not take significant precautions can be dangerous but feel free to get back on the wall immediately. But for a door I am not so sure. If you just reroll every lock pick then you might as well not roll at all. I will usually...

I may well be misunderstanding the objection here, but in that case the cleric has an action, dodge, that means you are dedicating yourself to full defense this round that could easily represent focusing on parrying. If you want all maneuvers that a battlemaster gets to be available to all...

Well, everyone has a subclass after level 2 so.. you seem to be complaining about a lack of something that is not lacking. Unless you want fighters to be able to throw fireballs or make wishes I guess. Which, monks, martial bards, paladins, rangers, arcane fighters, arcane thieves actually can...

Totally, a nice hyperlinked rules ref would be about 500x more useful than a PDF of the book. Sounds like what you want is entirely Dungeonscape. It would be nice if it was available the day the PHB came out, but it also would have been nice if all the books were available that day too. They...

I agree with the OP. I like the rules to be inspirational and open ended, the ref (and players good sportsmanship) is there to get things back on the rails if an unusual interpretation or misunderstanding sneaks in. What I am not so sure about is that there is a huge debate over some of these...

You mean besides the entire subclass which includes a mechanic to define ability, specialize and expand their toolbox?

Don't think so: Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour "The transformation lasts for the duration, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies." Unless you are only worried about the permanent version. But that is a level 9 spell, if the players want to stop being level 19 wizards and...

Firing a bow in melee range gives you disadvantage, STR does not do nothing for you, unless you stick to finesse weapons and don't plan on carrying anything or engaging in any skill checks. A really weak archer might be fun to roleplay, but optimal it is not.

Exactly, I would much rather have vague spells that are short, concise and open ended enough to inspire creativity than long, carefully delineated spells with every corner case stamped out to ensure pure mathematical balance. There is a referee at the table, unless your group are young or not...

I agree, note that it effects anyone, and unless you are metagaming heavily the caster does not know exactly how many HP the fighter has vs the goblins swarming around him. A good spell at low levels but it should be if it costs a slot. The necro thing as well, I understand that there is no...

Yeah I am old as heck and I still run my campaigns as hybrid sandbox/linear in a manner that is pretty similar to the way some CRPGs are designed, and for the same reasons. Players want freedom to set out and explore and follow their characters whims and motivations to a certain extent. But...

There are tons of things even a low level wizard can do to help a stealth op. With illusions, invisibility, distractions, stuns, holds, sleeps etc. In many ways they can be more creative than the thief who is going to be better at the actual sneak roll but has a smaller toolkit to get creative.

My first character (theoretically, I have DMd for years but another guy says he will DM in parallel the first adventure path, but has not yet picked up any of the books.) is based entirely on a name : Grimblesnatch From there I get more fuzzy on the details, he could be a half-orc hedge wizard...

Yes your horse can cast smite, it can also wear your armor and romance the princess. In fact the rest of the party prefers to hang out with your horse and you get the feeling it has been telling unflattering stories about you behind your back.

The interview on the front page directly addresses this. Sounds like they don't think just putting out a PDF of the book would be desirable and DS and the free basic which you already have (For Free) is the way people can access that on devices. This seems quite fine with me. In fact I could...

If you like watching folks cast cantrips and use basic attacks then go for it. But when you are altering the basic economy of action the entire game is built around, assume that you have completely broken it until proven otherwise. I'm sure the DMG will have some guidance about this though...