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Am I the only person who has never liked the breakdown of physical damage types as it has always been done? The Slashing/Piercing/Bludgeoning set appears everywhere (in large parts due to being used in D&D), but I have never really liked it. It has too many problematic elements: 1) Swords can...

Next time, could you write a post like this in a manner that is less edition war bait? Anyways, what was wrong with the residium being found in the stomach of the rust monster? Thats perfectly logical!

The central point of a lot of the people complaining about races having special mechanic seems to be the issue of ability score bonuses forcing certain races to play certain classes, and punishing other race/class combinations. But isn't that ultimately more a problem with the ability score...

What if we let people choose this kind of thing? The idea of the Paragon Path from 4E was interesting, but rather lacking. What if we combined it with the older edition concept of name level, and let a player choose a Paragon Path (Companion Path?) that represented their greater power over the...

I for one would like to see races other than funny-looking humans. The list of possible race variation is limited enough as is. Completely dropping mechanical variation would make every race essentially human, killing any possibility of more interesting races. I think the 4E approach of...

I never understood this idea that any individual character needs to shine above the others, to be honest. Some of the most fun I have had in D&D has come when the whole team is having a blast together. On those days where everyone in the party is doing their thing and we are all feeding off the...

No, I am generally a fan of the direction that 4E took, but what I want out of D&D Next is an edition that builds upon many of the good ideas of 4E, but with some much needed evolution and refinement, and a general return to the mechanical variety of 3E. I think that new rules and mechanics are...

A pattern that an old DM I used to play with used and that I rather like is to start at level 1, but very rapidly go up in level at first. After the players have earned a few levels and the PCs have acquired more substantial abilities, level slows down noticeably, but still continues at a rather...

I would imagine that someone wants to play a half-elf because they want to play something that has something that neither elves or humans have, which at the very least includes the idea of character that doesn't quite fit into human or elf society. That very idea is something not existent within...

I don't think that this will work, for the same reason that a multiclass Fighter/Wizard is never going to work as well as a dedicated Swordmage or Duskblade class. A hybrid class needs to be more than the sum of half of its two parent classes, it needs to have a unique aspect that arises from...

I don't think you will ever make magic feel magical just by taking on more effects that it can do. On the contrary, doing so will just further dilute the "magicalness" of magic. What is necessary to make magic feel more magical is constraint. The ultimate problem with why magic doesn't feel...

I played a Duskblade in a sadly short-lived campaign. It is definitely my favorite sword-mage class, since it goes beyond just giving a character BAB and spell levels and takes the step of letting a mage-warrior cast spells through physical attacks. You can't get that kind of synergy through...

We need a new setting. We didn't get a fully developed new setting with 4E, so I think we are somewhat overdue. While D&D has many, many excellent settings from its history, if new settings aren't created, we might not get the next Planescape or Eberron.

I have seen some of the effects of 3E's serious imbalances first hand, even though I haven't played too many long-running 3E campaigns. In the longest running 3E campaign I was part of, one of the players played a completely min-maxed multiclass fighter/barbarian built around duel-wielding...

I hope so. Fantasy itself covers a much broader range of settings and material than just medieval western. In order to have a Final Fantasy-styled campaign with gun-wielding mages and 10,000 year old giant robots, it would help to have rules for modern and science fiction game elements.

Personally, I think that is more of a problem with how Arcane magic is traditionally done in D&D, rather than a problem with psionics. Unlike divine magic, primal magic, psionics, ki, and so on, Arcane magic isn't given any clear explanation, internal logic, or limitation. Arcane magic comes...

I hate to open this bag of worms, but aren't Warlock and Witch synonymous almost all of the time? What would a Witch class add that the Warlock hasn't been doing for the last couple of editions?

Psionics has been in D&D a long time, and has its fans. I actually like it, though I think some of the flavor and effects could use some overhaul. It definitely should be in 5E, even if it isn't in the first book.

Okay, that would be expensive and difficult to read, unless it was online. This is where online tools could be a godsend.

I agree that we are going to need several different sub-systems for different classes. I used to hate the older charged wands myself until I got into NetHack last year. After that they kind of grew on me. I actually wouldn't mind seeing magic wands that function just as a magical ranged weapon...