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No deal breakers for me, though I have a few "warning signs." Like races as classes. Or no classes (we definitely know this isn't the case anymore). But that's all they are: warning signs. I'd have to see how the rules work in action and whether things I don't like could be easily ignored. If...

I think the idea behind Charisma as the base stat is that Charisma isn't "charm" per se... it's strength of personality. A barbarian with a commanding presence, even if they're abrasive personally, has high Charisma. It's why Intimidate is based off of Charisma, rather than Strength, which if...

I meant hybrid races like hybrid classes. It's a pet idea of mine.

Possibly renaming the celestial race would be the way to go then.

Remember the 10% rule, folks. If 10% of all players think having a gnome in the core is very important to them, then gnomes need to be supported. Similarly, if 10% of all players want Vancian magic, it needs to be in the rules. And if 10% of all players want to play a warlord at some point...

To be fair, I think this has been the general consensus for a few days now. Still, we didn't know until now exactly what that meant. There's still a lot of details missing, but we have a much clearer picture than we did before.

I've actually been using jagerkin as a base inspiration for hobgoblins in the campaign I'm currently running.

Based on what we're seeing about classes, I think it's fair to guess that races will follow the "everything from the PHB" format. So I expect to see the following as part of the "ready to play now" core, whatever they end up calling that: Dragonborn Dwarf Eladrin Elf Half-elf Halfling Half-orc...

It's only an error if you don't like it. Plenty of people like it. Stop stating your opinion as objective fact.

Count me among those who likes "social skills" along with "exploration skills" and "combat skills." I think that every aspect of the game should have a mechanical base. However, the game should be flexible enough that characters can play the sociable character regardless of whatever class it is...

Tolkein and classes You know, people love bringing up Tolkein as an example of iconic D&D classes, but he really isn't the best example. Gandalf's a celestial, not a D&D wizard. Aragorn's a rural fighter who happens to belong to a group called the "rangers." There's no clerics. There's no...

I honestly don't see how warlord is any less iconic than cleric, to be honest. Divine spellcasters are absent in most fantasy settings outside of D&D, but battle commanders are a pretty common fantasy staple. Mind you, I like clerics a lot and I think divine spellcasting was one of D&D's great...

Really, given all the things they're adding back in from 3e and earlier editions, this just seems like pointless grognard-ing to me. I have issues of my own with the warlord class (as I've indicated in the thread specifically about them) but I won't begrudge their existence for other players to...

That only strikes me as a problem if you think good deities are a problem. Which is an open question, I suppose, but they've been in every version of the game.

Although I've never used psionics, I'd be cool with this. You're absolutely right that it has a long tradition with the game, dating back to the first Unearthed Arcana.

This is the only thing that really bothered me about eladrin - the name confused two different and prior entirely different races together and muddled them. Since 4e's initial release they've tried to solve this problem with varying degrees of success but at the end of the day it still feels...

The 10% rule they've mentioned earlier means they had to include Vancian in some way. There's just no way they could get away with throwing Vancian out again without fans of it throwing a fit. However, it sounds like different classes are going to have different spellcasting mechanics and that...

That's something I'd actually be cool with (and have sort of advocated) but it doesn't sound to me like that's what they're doing. They're already talking about the wizard, assassin, and warlock as distinctive classes, so I doubt that it's going to be as much "mix, plug, and play" as some of us...

Huh. So if I'm reading this correctly the speculation that different spellcasters will different kinds of rules for spellcasting was correct. Interesting (and promising). The question then becomes which classes will (by default) use Vancian, which are at-will based, and which have a 4e-style...

I think rules for managing things like keeps and estates would be all well and good, but they shouldn't be an expected reward for higher levels IMO. Some characters are going to want to acquire an estate. For others it's not a meaningful goal. The rules should be there (probably in some optional...