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What exactly, might I ask, is adult intelligent content? By that I mean, what are some examples of the sort of thing you want to be in the books? Does that just mean big sentences and complex words, or maybe grittier subject matter, or what? And what exactly are you protesting against? What...

But sometimes kids and even adult's like those things, and not because they are mentally deficient. They just do, people have different taste. For instance I liked the brownies in Willow when I was a kid, heck, I still do. My personal taste aside, I don't think the problem is having those...

If you want to take is so literally I would be forced to agree, but I say everything based on the language used in the blog post. Really I take that to mean that to mean the best of the best from their small pool of higher level spells that they could get off in a few round combat...

In the end I don't think it's so much about reading level or complexity. I mean there are people that get off on a barrier to entry due a difficult reading level because it makes them somehow feel elite, but those folk are a passing small minority I think. What it really comes down to is...

If a wizard, a limited resource class, throws everything they have at a fighter and the fighter can consistently shrug it off the bulk of the time then that is very poor design indeed.

It does not matter how clear your book is, if it's boring to read people won't want to read it. WotC needs to decide who their target audience is and write for them, and everyone is not a target audience. There is a lot tied up in this question actually. Clarity, authorial voice, perception...

D&D next...weal or woe? would have been much more apropos. Anyway, a little too much doom and gloom for me. This will all be a blip on the radar in a couple of months. How they do their playtesting and how how they respond to it will ultimately be all that matters, not any one particular...

I want a D&D that evokes the feeling of previous editions, something that exist in a magical wonderland between the Rules Cyclopedia, 1e, 2e, and 3e. If that's wanting nostalgia, then sign me up. However I don't want it to copy those rules sets, I want it to do the things they did, but better...

The rarity thing (common, uncommon, rare) is one of the few things I've heard about 5e so far that I really dislike. It sets up pre-baked expectations in an arbitrary way. Let DM's decide what exist in their world, without handing out expectations about what should exist or not. I would be...

I've never pictured a warlock as just any old schmoe who makes a dark deal. Warlocks are people that have figured out how to do it without getting completely screwed over, or learned very quickly after the fact. There must be something of a methodology to it, that's why it's a class. It still...

I like warlocks, they're cool, they can stay. :P I thought a lot of the 4e fluff was really cool for them. I greatly dislike the 4e power system, but that was something every class had, it wasn't what really made the warlock. I thought the pacts were very cool, and curses should have been...

So, who will be the new lead designer? Monte Cook is gone, that door is close, that ship has sailed, we'll never see that particular vision. So dwelling on that is pretty much a useless endeavor. A much more important question is, who will be the new lead designer? Who will be the guiding...

Part of me still wants to combine skill guy with fighty guy and get Action Hero guy. Seriously I think mushing the rogue/thief and fighter into one class makes a lot of sense. With a combination of feats and skills you could make anything from a heavily armoured knight skilled in diplomacy and...

Here is the thing, I don't think there is a lot of room to do a setting that is generic enough to fit the idea of the classic D&D stereotype without basically ending up with a retread or pastiche of a setting that already exist, like Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, et c. It wouldn't be...

Maybe it's all the cold medication I'm on, but that isn't what I got out of the OP, in fact I got pretty much the exact opposite of that.

If you want to last around here and aren't just trolling then I might suggest that you seriously consider how you word your criticisms. Your original post is blatantly and needlessly inflammatory, and you've basically destroyed your ability to have a sensible and thoughtful discussion on the...

I actually disagree with nearly everything in the OP, but this in particular stuck out at me. This is exactly the question the designers should be asking, IMHO, not something to be avoided. Building the best rpg possible is absurdly broad and basically impossible since people have so many...

For me it provides more excitement and variety that the AEDU system does by leaps and bounds. And while it isn't my favorite spellcasting system of all time it IS D&D. Remove Vancian casting and it's just not the same game anymore. I like having alternatives, because I might not always want...

Speaking of which, here it is.

I guess I don't consider being able to make the character you want and have him be roughly as viable as any other character a special reward. I want dual whip guy to be just a good (though maybe in slightly different ways) as Mr. Giant MacGreataxe. I want the student of the humble spear to be...