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Well, the thing is, doing something new is a tricky and risky proposition. There are a ton of things I'd change if I was designing 5e solely for myself and my players. I'd get rid of base attack values and weapon proficiencies and merge them into weapon skills. I'd compress the classes and use...

To be perfectly honest, the main reason I like FR is the same reason I like Star Wars: I played some pretty cool CRPGs set in the universe and so became interested in the IP. Of course, to a certain extent, that's just the root reason. The reason I stuck with both settings long after NWN2 and...

I'd have to agree with that. Aside from the cover layout (which I generally quite like) I have to say that 4e in general has been a general downgrade in art and design. And more distinctive. The FR and Eberron books for 3e felt and looked setting-specific. The 4e books, on the other hand, look...

That would, I think, cause the ultimate setting war for all time. Fans get testy enough about their settings and their lore as it is - you wouldn't want the kind of huge retcon that would involve. Also, certain settings like FR and Greyhawk have incompatible cosmologies. Greyhawk is set on a...

Yeah, I've done a lot of exhaustive research into the nature of the planes in FR's cosmology recently and that's simply not true. The 2e and 3e planes don't match up as neatly as you're describing. For example, is Gehenna the Blood Rift or is it the Barrens of Doom and Despair? Both planes...

Fair enough, and I get that sentiment. However, Aragorn (nor any of the other Dunedain) does not have special abilities possessed by neither humans nor elves - he's just a human who lives for an exceptionally long period of time, essentially. That's much closer, in my mind, to my hybridized...

See, I don't understand this sentiment. Why would you want a hybridized character to be anything but a hybrid? Isn't that the entire point? I suppose I might just be wrong, but I always figure the point of playing a half-elf was to play an elfy human or a more human-like elf.

That's really not true. Wizards in most editions have been incapable of waring any armor or wielding anything but a dagger, while clerics have traditionally worn light to medium armor and carry around hammers or maces. Druids, for their part, often carry simple weapons or wear hide armor. That...

I'm more than a bit surprised (but pleased) by how popular Planescape seems to be in this poll. I have to wonder that if WotC did use it, whether they'd try to fit into whatever the core cosmology of 5e (if anything) ends up being or whether it would have its own unique cosmology based on the 2e...

I'm firmly against any kind of reset except one that goes all the way back to the Gray Box. Anything else to me seems like edition chauvinism. Seriously, why is 3e inherently the best of the bunch? It's not as if there weren't significant retcons between 1e and 2e or 2e and 3e. The entire...

Given that 5e is being marketed explicitly as a D&D game that includes the best of all editions (and presumably not just 3e and 4e) this sames fairly likely, at least in part. It seems almost certain to me they're going to incorporate something from the first two iterations of (A)D&D.

Good point. I did make the first option "I like it! Hope this is included either in core or as a well-supported optional rule!" but the emphasis is definitely on the core option. Take that as however you will. My original thought was that this would be in core, but only as an optional appendix...

I personally like low-power 1st level characters, but I'm not sure if this is a popular enough option to be strongly supported. I have a feeling a lot of players like to start the game already several cuts better than the average, though I feel that on a thematic, narrative level, this approach...

I'm not familiar with the term, but I think this is generally accepted to be true. Shouldn't designers do this to begin with? Races, like classes, should be balanced - at least within reason. I don't see how this is killing designer creativity anymore than hybrid classes do. How is it a huge...

It's not really a fix in my mind - it's an alternative approach. I don't feel that, mechanically, hybrid races as they work now are unbalanced or untenable. This just seems like a better method to me, with possible improvements. As for Pixieforged, that's more or less between you and your DM...

When it comes right down to it you don't really need anything else besides those four basic classes (cleric, fighter, mage, rogue). I suppose you might need a psionic class given its long tradition as an optional playstyle, but it would naturally come later in supplements, rather than part of...

This seems more like an optional rule to me than anything else. Too many players (myself included) are fond of the division between arcane and divine magic and I think the druidic/primal magic has a similar degree of support at this point, as well as a distinctive enough feel (in most D&D...

Thinking about core races and supplemental races for 5e / D&DN, I've been thinking that it might not be a bad idea to change the way hybrid races are handled in D&D. If you think about it, the way hybrid races work in D&D - particularly 4e but also the previous editions - doesn't make much...

Left to myself, I prefer rocket tag or some derivative thereof. However, I am willing to play with plot immunity if that's what everyone else wants.

I don't know for sure because I've only played the Dawn of War games, but I think I've heard from veteran players that Warhammer 40,000 undergoes a similar process every few years. However, that's a wargame, not an RPG, so I'm not sure if it counts. Saga Edition was also a pretty big change for...