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Yeah, but people rest when the wizard is out of spells (at least more often then not) so it amounts to the same thing. Even if it is presented that way in the book, in practice Vancian spells are often abilities you do every round. Yep, but that is a far cry from your statement that at-will...

Two weapon fighting has been the way to build a high damage fighter or ranger in both 2e, 3e and PF and have been showing up far too often as a result. A fighter that has two weapon fighting hits twice as often at low levels, and only gets slightly worse at high levels (because they use the...

That's true, as written there really isn't a reason for the wizard not to be drunk off his ass most of the time. I suppose that's bad, but now I really want to play an alcoholic wizard.

Well, if you get proper medical care anyway. I love the fact that being drunk or high lets you shrug off punishment, because that's what berserkers are. Because people have gotten drunk before going into battle as a survival strategy for millenia. Because it would be funny in actual play...

I groked the 4e idea that you were describing a scene rather than real world mechanics which is why, "why can't I do this next round" doesn't bother me like it does Mr. A. However, I do think that basic conceit of 4e is at odds with its structure, which is heavy tactical planning. You are...

I also don't mind save or die so much if the DM gives appropriate warnings to the creature. For example, when rolling a cockatrice on a random encounter table during a D&D basic game, I let the party see the lizard-chicken chase a rabbit out of the bushes and petrify it. The party still...

I think the great fear is not that 5e will use the AEDU system, but that fighters will be relegated back to attack, attack, attack and the rogue will be reduced to backstab, backstab, backstab. 3e feats for fighters and Pathfinder's rogue talents help, but they don't do the job well enough for...

I'm not convinced that dwarf immunity is the big problem everyone is making it out to be, possibly because I think it would lead to fun. I like the idea of dwarves never falling down drunk or hungover, of being able to eat poisonous things for flavouring, and not really minding if they spring...

There couldn't have been too many complaints about it, since both that mechanic and daily barbarian powers survived the Pathfinder playtest feedback. The survival of those mechanics along with the survival of confirming rolls for criticals prove that Pathfinder fans and me are very different...

I don't know why D&D designers undervalue shields so much. If anything, it should grant a greater AC bonus than the armour does. What is more, we can't have yet another edition where two weapon fighting is the obvious choice vs. wielding a shield. Two attacks a round is like giving someone a...

I am a believer that 4e fixed far more than it got wrong, but there are four reasons I want a 5e. 1) THE AEDU system sucks. Not because of realism, or verisimilitude or not because it doesn't "feel like D&D". It does those things just fine. The reason it sucks is because at-wills aren't...

I am skeptical if even you are willing to take it as far as Sean K. Reynolds did though. After all, he is going after some pretty sacred cows there as far as spells and spellcasting go, and even to the point of making fire elementals possible to damage with fire.

All I know is that in 3e days, I DM'd a couple campaigns, and in each campaign I had to abandon homebrew adventures as the PC's grew in level. The prep work was just too much for my schedule to handle, especially if I had kids. There is a reason most of the adventures I own are from the 3e...

Oh, but the rogue did. It was called defensive roll(ex), which you could use once per day.

The Fighter dailies and rogue dailies described in 5e are similar to barbarian rages in 3e. If that didn't bother you then, it shouldn't bother you now. For myself, I'd rather give the fighter stances instead, or special attacks that trigger off a good die roll than give them daily powers...

I'm always baffled when people argue that save or die in previous editions is more faithful to the myth than save or die in 4e. The 4e version of petrification simply means the petrification takes 18 seconds. That's it. You cannot tell me that the myth is so precise to say that it was...

Poison comes up rarely enough (once every other play session at most) that poison immunity isn't very likely to be game-breaking. As for dwarf kings being poisoned in the past, I concur that if one shows up dead by poison that it is an intriguing mystery, not an irreconcilable problem. A king...

I also love the immunities. It cements the fact that elves don't sleep, and that dwarves are the best drinkers. It also, as some have pointed out, make dwarves excellent rogues for dealing with locks and traps, which is as it should be. Dwarves should be the best rogues for traps and locks...

If the medusa is supposed to be the same thing as in the original myth, and have a save or die petrifying attack, I want the gods to personally help me to defeat her by giving me their godly powerful magic items. A save or die medusa of myth was not found in a cavern in the caves of chaos or a...

If it wasn't for their anal requirements to sign the agreement, they could have just sent the playtest packet to their own inboxes of their community members on their community forums. Seriously WotC, get different legal representation. Yours obviously sucks, and it just pissing off your...