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I have an inexplicable craving for death cheese.

Well, you can learn more skills... you just have to take the "Skilled" feat.

He doesn't have to be a Rogue or a Criminal. The backgrounds in the PHB are not comprehensive; the locksmith could have a background called "Tinkerer" or something that gives proficiency with Thieves' Tools. You can also learn how to use tools during downtime.

Rogues now have proficiency in Thieves Tools which essentially does the same thing.

I don't think the rest of the party needs to use readied actions. If Brok the Barbarian has readied an action to break down the door, then Brok breaking down the door is effectively the first initiative of the surprise round. At that point all other characters in the party can act according to...

I don't think Perception needs to be made any more powerful than it already is. The way I would rule it, you might use Perception to notice a trap in a room, but you'd need to use Investigation to figure out what triggers it and how to avoid it. Similarly, if an object is just sitting around...

That's a fair point. Overall, though, I don't think the lack of a delay action is a big problem. The first action in an ambush, 99% of the time, will either be a ranged attack or breaking down a door like in this example. Both of those actions can be resolved through the ready action.

Is there any rule that you can only have one surprise round? I would think that, as long as one side is unaware of the other, the other side can continue to act with surprise. In the door-kicking example, it would work like this: Ernie the Elf is scouting ahead in a dungeon and hears Orcs on...

Maybe Warcaster has a strength prereq? If not, that would be an easy houserule.

I'm guessing Arcane Archer was renamed to be more accurate, considering that there's no rule that you can only use arcane spells with it.

The playtest had the right idea. Disguising fighting styles as "Favored Enemy" amounts to ostensibly honoring a (terrible)sacred cow whilst covertly cooking up some tasty hamburgers.

The Monk is more of a fighter than a sneaky character now, I believe. If we were to categorize using the 4e roles: Defenders: Melee Fighter Paladin Melee Ranger Monk Barbarian Strikers: Rogue Warlock? Sorcerer? Archery Fighter Archery Ranger Leaders: Bard Cleric Druid Controllers...

A skirmisher-type warrior is really the only archetype that makes sense to me. Whether he uses archery, light weapons, or both isn't that important, but as a stealthy survivalist who defeats his enemy with cunning and knowledge of his surroundings, he fills a niche none of the other classes do...

I don't think the Dex Fighter is necessarily strictly better, but the Dex Ranger almost certainly will be.

Well, most samurai armor would probably be the equivalent of one of the medium armors.

That is encouraging, although it probably means I'll have to create my own adventures. But I probably would have done that anyway.

Don't forget Special: Folded Steel Sundering. As a result of the katana's superior forging using many layers of thinly folded steel, any time you hit with an attack against an enemy holding a weapon and/or shield, you can instead choose to deal damage to one weapon or shield they are holding.

IMO, by far the best thing 4th edition did was separate the monster rules from the PC rules. Designing interesting encounters was far easier than in any prior edition, and running the monsters themselves was a relative breeze, because everything you needed was right in the stat block...

It's nice that the feats in the playtest are all basically self-contained, effective powers in their own right, as opposed to 3.x and 4e where you often needed to chain a few feats together before you finally got what you wanted.

Well that's easy, what happens is that the game breaks :cool: