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I don't think anybody has pointed out the new blog on dice tricks //http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/blog/2012/02/17/dice_tricks As is so often the case when game designers discuss math they get it wrong. 2D20 taking the best is NOT at all the same as getting a +5 bonus. The biggest...

Ah. And since they're planning to get to the core of what D&D is we now know what dndNext REALLY IS and get the advertising sound bite: DndNext : Even more dice rolling than ever before.

I was desperately looking for the "Who gives a <expletive deleted>" button With all the things to sort out at this stage of the development process they're killing innocent electrons to ask this? Feh.

My objection is to any non at will power unless there is a reasonable and consistent explanation as to why that power cannot be used at will. That explanation could be something like CHI, fatigue, mental state, etc. But it can't be silly flavour text that the GM is expected to alter every...

He claims that he got his package in December so WOTC would have needed this information at least a month BEFORE DDXP. So, I have the choice of believing a semi literate anonymous poster or the WOTC developers. Colour my naive and foolish if you want, but I think that I'm going with WOTC on...

There are some other differences. Organized play often has reasonably tight time constraints. Which means that the GM has to make sure that the characters "stay on target" to a somewhat greater extent than normal. When I'm running a home game I'll often let the players go off on the wildest of...

I can only speak for PFS in Toronto but that absolutely should NOT be a problem. We absolutely welcome new players. We have pregens ready to play or you can play your own character. Although we request that people sign up in advance on the web site before hand we'll try as hard as we possibly...

I think that this is absolutely the key. Any game (home, organized, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, whatever) is very, very prone to break down if the players engage in over the top power gaming. That tendency IS accentuated in organized play but it is always there. So far, we've been lucky locally in...

I definitely meet that description. And they're currently missing if they're aiming at me. I may definitely be misinterpreting you, but it seems like you're almost saying : "Only people with closed minds aren't going to like 5th Edition". And that argument I most definitely reject. I'm...

They've said a lot more than that. It is currently early in the process (how early is unclear) and we haven't actually seen even these early rules yet so irrevocably making ANY decision at this point is arguably silly. Its certainly premature. But there are definite trends and tendencies that...

Its very unclear to me. The snarky part of me says that it is clearly NOT the people who love 4th edition and it is clearly NOT the people who love Pathfinder, because nobody could miss these targets so egregiously if they were TRYING to hit them :-) Which leaves the 10% of the market playing...

I largely agree with everything that you're saying. I'm finding it hard to articulate my misgivings (even to myself). I think that my basic problem is that while I agree that AD&D, Basic D&D, 4th edition, etc are all D&D I do NOT feel that they all have things worth preserving in a modern...

If the initial offering is too basic then I won't be buying it. I'll wait until the real game comes out. Note : This can be in multiple books. My absolute minimum requirements are : 1) At least Level 10. Where level 10 has to be at least powerful enough to face giants and dragons (at least the...

I definitely applaud the attempt to get us all to be polite. I took the pledge :-). But I think that the above is going too far. I think that the debate is improved if we point out flaws in others preferences as well as extolling the virtues of our own preferences. Now, it is the preferences...

My guess (based on absolutely no knowledge) is that there are various factions within WOTC/Hasbro fighting over exactly what the license will be. And no one faction has yet won that fight. Combine that with lawyers being slower than gamers would like and you have the current situation where...

By that definition my campaign is medieval fantasy. But that is a VERY broad definition. A LOT broader than I'd interpreted it. The other way to approach the whole "D&D core" topic is from the other direction. What other games would be "D&D core" by these guidelines? How many D20 variants...

No, I wouldn't. I am not at all sure that "Core D&D" really exists at all. If it does exist, then I am fairly sure that it is NOT what Monte thinks it is. D20 rolls, classes, levels. Those are probably in most everybodies "Core D&D". Maybe "Dungeon crawls will exist". But there are lots of...

This is precisely what I disagree with. I'm currently running a Pathfinder campaign using only slightly houseruled Pathfinder rules set in Golaron using Pathfinder adventures as my base. We long since dropped XP although the characters DO have levels. No alignment for PCs. Golaron isn't...

In terms of number of players then 3rd and 4th combined are one whole heck of a lot more than a 1/3. In terms of players currently playing then its got to be well over 90%. But that really isn't my point. My point is that Monte seems to be starting from this grand vision of what D&D is (and...

Abe and Bob are both playing dextrous rogues with a Dex of 17. Abe goes old school. No skills. He gets a +2 to roguey stuff for being a rogue. Bob wants to really emphasize his Stealth, even at the cost of his Escape Artist skill being lower. He wants to be the sneakiest darn rogue ever not...