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This would slow the game down even more, because players wouldn't be able to pre-plan their moves at all. (Some don't do it anyway, and that's a problem now; this idea makes it works.)

Sounds like a rogue.

Get ready for the red skies and walls of anti-matter!

That's a lovely character sheet. (What I meant to say in the XP.)

Only if the entire party is going to have meaningful ways to interact with and in participate in dealing with those traps. If it's all a case of the thief dealing with them (or the wizard/cleric with thief-obsoleting spells), then no, we don't need more of that.

It can't be worse than the confusion over multiple meanings of the word "level."

There are also feats for staves and warhammers (the latter if you're a dwarf), and also ruthless ruffians can use clubs or maces.

I don't have the time right now to come up with a list of specific suggestions, but in general I'd love to see a lot more female authors and books featuring female protagonists.

Appendix N is getting sort of dated. Would be nice if D&D can move on beyond the late 70s in fiction.

I don't think it will be either, but I also think that the misleading rhetoric tossed around by Cook & company has been aimed in getting people like Odhanan to think that "core 5e sans modules" will essentially be OD&D (even though it won't). They're being deliberately vague in many cases, but...

Actually, I expect that the role of treasure -- and especially buying/making magic items -- will be reduced in 5e compared to previous editions. They say they don't want it to be as magic-item dependent as 3e and 4e were. (AD&D was treasure-dependent if only because a good chunk of your XP came...

I'd want them to go down to the mall and ask some kids there what it would take to make them try D&D Next, then run some games for them.

You lost me at the equation of "treasure" with "Power." I am not following you here.

Invoker or hunter seem like good choices to consider.

This seems to impose an unfair burden on those who dislike 4e.

I'm playing a 4e monk in D&D Encounters this season, and so far it feels pretty good and monk-ish.

I sure hope "maintaining the mystery" is not going to be a priority for the new system. (I don't think it will be, since that would be a big, big step backwards, post 3e.)

Nitpick: We knew our THAC0s in 2e. Also I really think the idea that only DMs would have access to the DM information is kind of silly. :D That's one 3e innovation that I hope sticks around: don't assume an artificial separation of knowledge between players and DMs, especially when it's...

This is 5e, everything is modular. Collecting gold (and magic) may be basic to SOME games, but not necessarily to all games. If you take a look at something like Lord of the Rings, there's not really that much treasure-grubbing. D&D Next should be able, without the game breaking, to model that...

It's hard to get the right balance between "the guy who goes first, hits first" and "combat is a whiff-fest". In a typical AD&D fight at first level, you've got a THAC0 of like 20 and a +1 or +2 bonus, and you're fighting something with an AC of 5 or so. That means you hit about 1 attack in 3...