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Are you sure you read the 4e Dark Sun book? Cuz there were a lot of races that were just skipped over or left out in the cold deliberately. From what we can tell about the 4e DS creative process, the designers didn't include eladrin and dragonborn because they had to but rather because, as game...

Part of me wishes the third party publishers who are contributing on "5e must have OGL!!" threads would at least have the dignity to disclose their interests instead of just pretending their argument is that it'll great for WotC to have an OGL.

LOL, an ad. Oh you rascals.

Would you consider that you are playing a version of D&D that differs from "core D&D" in ways X, Y, and Z (which you enumerate above)? Monte's attempt, as most people see it, is not to set a measure from which we say "this is exactly what D&D is and is not," so the two choices you give above...

Just a quibble -- lethality isn't a measure of how many hit points you have but of what you might encounter that might deplete them. 4e characters are about as likely statistically to die from the same average number of hits as any other edition, it's just the hits in you take in 4e are also...

I think you're misreading the thread and/or original post, because he didn't really make any claims about wizard survivability in other, non-D&D Next games. (Only that they wouldn't survive in D&DN.) Pushing him too hard on this one throwaway line seems rather extreme.

True, a "burst of creativity" is one way to put it. But there was also a heck of a lot of horrible crap out there that had the d20 logo slapped on it -- another argument against a "golden age" in my book!

In a post-Pathfinder world, which has also seen the rise of OGL-based OSR games, I think that redoing the OGL is going to be a very, very hard sell internally for anyone at WotC -- selling the concept to Hasbro, I mean. The situation in the industry now is very different from when they first...

Ah yes, that calls to mind: Avery Brooks in 2000. Back in 2000, I wasn't worrying much about edition wars ... until 3e came barreling along and killed my beloved Alternity.

I gotta quibble on one thing -- I don't think the early d20/OGL period can rightly be called the "Golden Age of Gaming." That has to go back sometime in distant history, like when AD&D and Basic/Expert were running in tandem in the 1980s. That's the real "Golden Age" that we look back to in this...

That's all anyone can write at this point. Either happy fluffy "my trip to DDXP" stories about how everyone got along despite edition differences, or somewhat more grumbly stories about it how seems there's more yet to be done to make D&D Next work well but they're still glad they got in the...

I think someone needs to start collecting and archiving the various reasons that people decide to give up on 5e and declare it a failure more than a year before it comes out. :) If I were you, I'd hang around just for the ride. At least that way you can express your opinion, plus have a nice...

Well, I dunno. I guess I shouldn't append "objectively" so blithely, but I do think it suffered badly from reduced and flavorless fluff along with going obsolete mechanically by the time 4e's Monster Manual 3 came out. Maybe there were worse monster books in the past (probably something minor in...

Yeah, the consensus is that it's miles better than any of the 4e Monster books that have been put out. I'm not making the claim it's objectively better than 2e's Monstrous Compendium, but it's the only thing that might come close. Rather than MC's more encyclopedic approach to monster fluff...

Yeah, most orcs in 4e are level 3 at least: the "Battletested Orc" from Monster Vault being typical, but even the "broken math" Orc Raiders from Monster Manual (1) are level 3. With a +8 attack bonus against the wizard's 15 AC, we're looking at 4 hitting for a total of 4d12+12 damage -- easily...

Part of what scares me about the process is that for the next 18-or-so months -- or until individual issues get settled -- D&D communities may be stuck in non-stop edition wars (or The Great 5e Cold War) as we try to navigate through the minefield of everyone passionately and for legitimate...

It occurs to me that most 4e powers and class abilities are written in a way that they could be used fairly math-agnostically. E.g., nothing in the writeup of an Encounter or Daily power defines what the attack roll should be, just something like: Attack: Intelligence vs. Reflex Hit: 2d6 +...

Ah, this must be the full report from Kravell here on EN World -- I recognized the anecdote about the DM pretending to hand his gold card to him. WAIT NO THIS IS PROOF THAT D&D NEXT GAME MECHANICS DEMAND THAT PLAYERS MUST TAKE CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS FROM DMS TO PLAY THE GAME!!!1! :D

LOL, you've convinced me with this. I may not agree with everything WotC is doing, but I hereby rescind my thesis that they could have managed these particular types of problems with a different information release strategy.

One possible solution is that Abe, noticing that Bob is a lot better than him, asks Bob how he did it and Bob teaches Abe how to use the Skills Have Ranks module. Abe gets permission from the DM and between adventures, converts his character over to the more complex, but more sneaky, rules set.