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If a big spell hits you and you take 50 damage, well good luck succeeding on your DC 25 Con save. I'd much rather have to succeed on several DC 10 saves than one DC 25 save.

The problem isn't that the spells do too much damage (relative to everything else in the game, they don't). The problem is that 1st level characters are just way too fragile. I think they decided that the imbalance at that level isn't very important since it is only supposed to last for a single...

I think it's a good thing that concentration can be broken with damage. The concern I have is that the DC goes up the more damage a caster takes. Damage scales considerably as you go up in level, while things like checks and saving throws are subject to bounded accuracy (hit points and damage...

Most of the reactions I've seen have been positive. I am very pleased with it. There are a few issues, but they're very minor compared to the kinds of problems I've seen in most other games in the first printing.

I'm glad to hear it.

I agree! 10/10.

I'm far from the only person that saw blatant edition warring in the article. You should see the thread on rpg.net about it. My criticisms of the article are extremely mild by comparison.

But went out of his way to throw them under the bus in his article. He didn't have to use that exact word. The implication is clear. He effectively says charop people ruined the game with their "abominations" and "creative horrors." A lot of nerves are still very raw from the edition wars, and...

I got an "everyone who has been playing the last two editions has been doing it WRONG!" vibe from the article. That, and the typical "true roleplayer" making thinly veiled attacks against char op people from atop his lofty perch.

I think there are a few things to keep in mind when considering the saving throw issue. - There aren't really any "save or die" or "save or lose" effects anymore, so the consequences of failing a saving throw at higher levels are nowhere near as harsh as they were in past editions. Most things...

You're welcome! Actually, Nature is an Int-based skill. ;)

I've been following the playtest since the very beginning. It's hard to believe that the basic game is just a few days away. I can't wait!

Those spells are already in the basic game. They just left them off the wizard's list.

It looks like they updated the spell list from last night, adding the spells from the starter set and putting hold person on the wizard list. Antimagic field, astral projection and gate were still left off the wizard list, though, which has me worried that their omission was intentional. I...

I assume that's because survival is your skill at things like foraging, hunting and tracking, while nature is a purely academic knowledge of nature. For example, imagine a scientist who can identify lots of plants and animals and knows all about their biology, but if put out alone in some harsh...

Those are some pretty iconic wizard spells. I hope that's just an error and not deliberate.

I think they should change the ability to better reflect its name, rather than being sneak attack in all-but-name. For example: Martial Advantage: the hobgoblin has Advantage on its attack rolls if its target is within 5 feet of an ally of the hobgoblin that isn't incapacitated.

I think they should reduce the hobgoblin's martial advantage to +1d6, and maybe put some more strict restrictions on it. As it is, it's far too lethal for a CR 1/2 creature, IMO. CR 1/2, as I understand it, means 2 of them are supposed to be an appropriate challenge for a 1st level party. An...

I really like what I've been seeing. My only complaint is that they aren't providing spell sheets for the characters. I don't want my players to have to play tug-of-war with the rulebook.

I think those extra languages are from a high Int score. IIRC, characters get one extra language per point of Int bonus.