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I agree that Clerics shouldn't have a divine at-will ranged attack. They wear heavy armors, they carry big weapons... their at-will attack should be applying their deity's favored weapon forcefully to the skull of the infidel. If they're combining the Cleric and the Paladin, which they might as...

This. I am more interested in buying Paizo products because Paizo products are of more use to me-- just as once, WotC products were more useful to me.

Well, don't think of it as Wizards publishing support materials for 3e to compete with Paizo's Pathfinder game. Think of it as Wizards publishing support materials-- at minimal expense to them-- for Paizo's Pathfinder game. It's not a bad niche market for a company that can service it...

Ain't Paizo what needs the olive branch. Wizards hanging them out to dry was the best thing ever happened to them.

It's funny everyone's saying it looks so much like 3e because I don't see it at all. If I were to try to describe Next in terms of what's come before... I'd say that, more than anything, it looks like Classic plus Essentials with just a little bit of the exact right parts of 2e. Give me the...

You know, 4e is probably my least favorite form of D&D, and I still love the Reaper feat. Looking forward to playing a Slayer Rogue that throws pencils and playing cards at monsters.

I for one am severely glad for this. The nonsensical restriction on moving in melee combat was one of the biggest and least justified nerfs to the melee classes in D&D 3.X, and I hope it's dead forever. Instead of provoking attacks of opportunity-- which are a horrible mechanic-- I much prefer...

Crazy Jerome's idea about casting checks being used for casting time is brilliant. I love it. Combine that with the separated casting stats... Say that for Wizards, Intelligence governs spell slots and Charisma governs casting checks. Then, for Clerics, Charisma governs spell slots but Wisdom...

It matters enough now, with the rules only going to up to 3rd level. I seriously, passionately hope that racial abilities continue to advace so that race continues to be as significant a facet of character design as class at 20th level.

Can't really vote in the poll because I don't really identify with any version of D&D-- it isn't that I don't love D&D so much as, no matter which version of D&D I'm playing, I wish I were playing a different one-- but I'm sniffing the playtest right now and I'm thinking it smells pretty good...

I disagree with this entirely. I might be the lone voice in the wilderness on this one... but I think all of your splats should continue to shape your character for your whole career. Maybe not every level, but every so often, you should get a new racial feature, a new class feature, and a new...

I love the flat math, but I would rather that ability scores continued to improve-- a much slower improvement than mathematic progressions, but improvement that is consistent across the character.

Don't quite understand the objection over healing to full hit points overnight, when serious injuries take weeks to heal. Because if you're injured in such a way that it takes weeks to heal, chances are you're not moving and fighting at 100% capacity like you would be at 1 hit point. In D&D...

I like the Fighter and the Wizard. The Clerics are kinda interesting, and the Rogue just leaves me blah.

If that's true, that's interesting, though I'm concerned about the fact they're bringing back odd bonuses-- unless there's some kind of automatic stat inflation for levels, which the playtest materials seem to be suggesting there isn't.

I can and I am, because I have never heard of a genuine black-skinned geek complaining about this issue-- I have only ever heard of it coming from rich white college kids trying to expiate the shame of their privileged upbringing. Considering that 'human barbarians' are primarily based on...

You know, I'm getting really sick of the kneejerk politically correct nonsense that's being thrown around here. Yeah, there are lot of parts of D&D and fantasy lit in general that come from racist sources. 'Lost cities' are based on colonialists' inability to comprehend that African and South...

I actually like the dying rules, except I think stabilizing should be a little less inevitable-- you should be able to linger at death's door for longer without either the certainty of death or stabilization. On the other hand, I love that you can't predict exactly when death will occur because...

Feats were a marvelous idea for character customization, but they quickly grew out of hand-- they fill too many niches, because they range from your basic proficiencies to expanded class features to combat maneuvers to martial arts styles. My last D&D/Pathfinder character actually took a level...

I kinda prefer my cosmology to be a murky undefined mess, with functionally infinite realms. For the most part, I stick to the Great Wheel... but make vague allowances for the existence of the Wu Xing elements instead of the Aristotlean set, or for alternate 'elemental' planes , plus 4e...