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Put me on the side of being more evocative I'm afraid. I not only want the material components of the spell listed, I want the gestures described as well.

The way you guys are describing magic missile, it's a trap. Sleep will always be a better choice as long as you have to spend one of your few spell slots to do the same damage you can do with a sling. Why not give them 5d4 points of damage with a magic missile straight off? Then you can...

"Spring" release dates (which the open playtest is supposed to be), generally means June in my experience. I therefore am not expecting the open playtest to begin before then.

I dislike the 3e skills system the most. A lot of book-keeping without the advantage of having unique skills like you could with 2e's proficiencies system. With level-based DC's for skills as well, there was no point in putting less than full points in any DC system, so why not just do what 4e...

After awhile he does more damage, but he is crippled by the fact that he sneak attacks with light weapons, which means if he is doing x2 or x3 sneak attack, he's just getting parity with the fighter or barbarian's greataxe or two-hander and they can do that damage every round. Even at higher...

A thief is a bit too narrow of a name to be a class. Even in 2e you had several kits which did away with the thieving (acrobat, bounty hunter, swashbuckler, scout). There is also a need for lightly armored scoundrels such as pirates. So I think the distinction of rogue being a class and...

Okay, someone has to explain the love for the 3e rogue for me given how functionally useless they were. Between their 3/4 BAB which made them useless as melee fighters (despite the fact that this is what they were designed to do) and needing both high intelligence and high wisdom to be...

I like my warlocks to be a mix of infernal (the core flavour), vestige (binding demons or spirts to yourself) and dark (offer hit points from you and your companions to your soul devouring master). If you add all three of these pact abilities into one class, then make him the best summoner...

That's a tough one, because my ideal of each class would probably come from tacking together things from one or two editions. ie. Fighter - Special combat manuevers from 4e, the simplicity of 1e/2e, the round after round damage dealer of 3e, and the followers, stronghold and domain rules of...

I have not had positive experiences interacting with the OSR community. Generally any criticism of some feature of the 1e system or any suggestion that 3e/4e could have something to teach or inform the 1e system is recieved very poorly, along with dismissive comments that I don't play the game...

I don't mind if the wizard is able to do things beyond my ken as a fighter (teleportation, raising the dead, casting fireballs) but if he tries to make me his servant/bodyguard at higher levels, I want to feed him his teeth. In other words, I don't care if he does more damage or more cool...

I'm pretty sure that races will have their own list of feats and classes will advance by leveling up. Themes will start with a background which will give the character a minor ability, possibly by trading in their first level feat. They will probably gain more thematic powers by using more feats.

I like the idea of 18 being the peak of human physical perfection. I'm not sure if I like the idea of limiting it to other races, as I could probably accept demi-humans as having stats that can reach 19 or 20. However, by capping the stats at 18, any level-based or adventure-based increases in...

Which was the wrong way to go about it frankly. There is no reason that any of those options couldn't have been solved with "okay make an attack roll/ and/or arcana check and resolve it based on the other damage spells of that level. Wait, didn't that the 5e design team say they were...

See, but themes have work across all classes. They do in 4e (though some theme/class combinations are better than others). If you make a knight theme complete with armour, weapons and a horse, you've either shut out wizards, or you've used it for multi-classing. In other words, a wizard with...

The big problem with themes (to put cold water on the excitement) that I see is that it will have all the same problems as prestige classes, kits, and paragon paths had before it. Someone will design an underpowered, overpowered, badly explained, or outright broken theme, and people will end up...

Don't forget dual-classing or hybrids, which makes 9000 options. With true multiclassing, then you need factorals to figure out all the options. Themes are considerably less complicated than multi-classing, and a lot of multiclassing options can be done with thieves. I've seen fighter/monks...

I think the fact that themes are not class specific means that you can keep a lot of classes with specific flavour intact. The paladin is a variant fighter or cleric, but he is a knight instead of wizard. So wizard paladins or wizard rangers don't really work because there is too much baggage...

I don't the OP means continued support in terms of new content. I think he is just speaking of the existing online 4e adventure tools (character builder and monster builder) vanishing into the ethereal plane. There is of course an offline character builder which most 4e players still have, but...

It depends what you are defending against.