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Almost everything in the right column is generic game rules repeated for reference. Very handy for a new player, but does take up a lot of space for sure.

Also what if instead of character X with guidance tackling a check the party ends up having to use character Y without guidance and the check becomes almost impossible?

I'm not a fan of this style of adventure math. This system ends up penalizing all the characters not focused on a skill instead of making the character investing in the skill feel powerful. For example, a mid level rogue built for stealth can routinely get 25s or better at Stealth checks. If...

Nomadic raiders and traders of the northern steppes. In my campaign map the world is divided into eastern and western halves by a fairly impenetrable mountain range. The mountain gives way to hills on its northern edge and the orcs occupy this area. Since they live in a zone not great for...

In your 3e example you picked the most changed class. If you showed up to a 3.5 game with most of the other classes it wouldnt be noticable. I used my 3.0 monster books all the time for 3.5.

The only two changes from 3.0 to 3.5 that stick in my head were spreading the ranger abilities over a number of levels instead of everything at 1st and changing the stat increasing spells (Bulls Strength, etc) from lasting all adventure to lasting one combat. I think the differences were...

This echos my experience. In 5e we used inspiration early on, keeping track of it bye handing out poker chips. Players rarely used it, forgot about having it, and as a feedback loop I forgot to give them out enough to get a circulation going. This is both GM assigning and players assigning...

I'd say it would be more useful for new players to have a preset array of all six stats (including the floating bits added in) by class than it would be to have them assigning base numbers blindly and THEN have guidance on where to put the little nudges afterwards.

I'm pretty sure in 2e you could find an elf with a bonus to any of the 6 stats, so the idea that one particular stat helps define a race seems to have flown out the window long ago. How about we just divorce the stat bonus from everything and let each player decide if they want to model nature...

I'm just speaking real world experience. I printed it out and had a few minutes on break at work to read it. I didn't start novel style, but instead flipped through the pages reading some bits that caught my eye. I stopped at the sample backgrounds (because it takes up a lot of room in the...

We have fundamental differences in Gaming here which is probably why we view the impact of lots of inspiration differently. When I set a DC I look at the definition chart and pick a number based on how I judge the task should be. If the task is hard it's a 15. Easy is a 5. The skills...

Ninjas, Dinosaurs, Robots, Zombies, Pirates, and Wizards are 6 of the 8 factions in the base box of Smash Up if anyone wants to game this out. Aliens and Tricksters

People don't always read from front to back, they also flip around and read here and there. If one were just glancing at the playtest, but we're familiar with 5e then one could easily assume backgrounds worked similar to 5e but now had stat mods attached to them.

I get it. If they had only shown one example background (like when they follow a sample character creation as examples in the PHB) it would be obvious you were supposed to build it custom. Instead they devoted a large amount of real estate to making a bunch of "examples" which can look like a...

For some reason you keep conflating posts I replied to you and posts I replied to another user as being one and the same conversation. The ridiculous extreme examples were indeed NOT said by you, but we're instead by other posters in this thread....one of which I replied to directly to call out...

You seem hung up on the spectrum thing, so let me clarify. I said: If players are inspiration fishing so much it's disturbing your game and they don't stop when you ask them the problem is bad players, not bad rules. You said: So now you are saying all players trying to gain an advantage are...

His logic was "The game lets you do it so everyone will do it all the time". That's not sound logic.

It's not really that complicated. If, in any DnD game, the players actions begin to slow the game down past what the table can bear the GM should step in and say "Hey everyone, constantly focusing on X (X can be fishing for inspiration or searching for traps) is ruining the game. Can you...

That's an issue with quality of players, not quality of the game system. 5e rewards players stopping every 5' of travel and saying "I look around for any danger" or every 5' of hallway and stating "I'm looking on all the walls, floor, and ceiling for traps." but doing so would grind the game to...

The game lets me put a 3 in my most important stat and still play. Am I supposed to be doing that because it's an option? But you didn't answer the question...do the players at your table use guidance on every single check in the game it can be used?