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If someone is acting like a troll or a jerk, the last thing I want to do is find some common creative ground. At this point I'm hoping that when the beta documents are finally released to the public, more than a few implacable blowhards just throw up their hands and storm off in a...

From your lips to Monte's ears---but I fear that the +1 sword is *easily* as iconic a D&Dism as Vancian Magic, 18 Charisma, and attribute limits for women and demihumans. Oh wait, we *did* manage to drop that last one, didn't we? Fingers crossed.

This almost destroyed the internet when the first 4e art was previewed lo these short years ago. I was there and I count myself scarred. In retrospect, I believe those battles were merely proxies for the larger edition war---but one which allowed slams against 4e to sail under the overburdened...

This is D&D

I couldn't agree more. That said, 5e is all about making Nixon-era concepts compatible with present-day game design---in the interest of unity. Ability scores ain't going nowhere.

Epic tier threats should lay on the save or die effects. Arch-devils, demon lords, great wyrms, demi-liches and demigods. Each should have a signature power that snuffs out life like a candle. Because epic level heroes can handle that sort of thing. They can pop back to life, assume bodies of...

When Orcus does it, you are an epic level character who has many ways to either avoid or come back from death. Which, by the way, is awesome.

Minions are one of my favorite innovations 4e brought to D&D (though they've existed in many other games).. To me, they are a nod to pre-3e D&D, where higher level parties would occasionally encounter monsters of lower level than themselves, and the PCs were able to take on multiple foes with...

Now that's the question, isn't it? Character death is rare enough in my 4e game, and I'm not sure I want the default 5e to stray too far afield from that. But even if 5e characters are, by default, a bit more brittle, there's no way I would like to see a return to having a single die roll end a...

I *love* tiers, and especially love what 4e attempted with Epic Destinies. But the more I think about, I find myself wondering what it would be like if once you reach the epic tier (let's say 20th), you get off the XP conveyor belt (i.e. no level 21). Play continues---the game doesn't end until...

Which is my hope for 5e. Not a series of 3e UA alternate rules that in many cases were difficult to integrate, but a core system with a light, simple skeleton (playable in iteself) upon which you could add (provided) options easily. It would be both revolutionary and evolutionary---and...

PHB Starts with a blindingly simple core set of rules and assumptions. Almost an indie-RPG with retro-clone flavor. This first 1/3 of the book should contain everything needed to play a simple character all the way to 20 The classes should be old-school/Essentials: class abilities replace...

I like my archetypes from everywhere, so: Boba Fett, Rick Deckard (Blade Runner), Jonah Hex

One could argue that was approach taken by 4e, and the one that has generated the most ire from the old guard. and ps. If we could get a 5e magic system that even remotely resembled Unisystem (Lite), I'd be thrilled. But let's be realistic. :(

Simple character creation, even at higher levels. Life was cheap when it only took you 5 minutes to *completely* fill out your character sheet. Low hit points across the board. You want a wizard to feel magical again? Make 5d6 damage actually kill things. XP for gold (although I prefer the...

Please tell me that's a typo.

I believe the veterans of the Great Edition Wars have come together to hammer out a new Confederacy from the ashes of the old Successor Kingdoms. Pax Unitas Quintus

oh man I remember those. My side lost, and the world was deprived of "Mages of the Iron Sigil" in favor of "Orb of Imposition" le sigh

I think the point is, would you be willing to allow for the inclusion of such a class in the game---hypothetically as one of those 'optional modules' that everyone hopes will exist? (and on an unrelated note, it does seem like we're forming a bit of a cargo cult about modularity---but that's...

Leonidas is a perfect cinematic example of a Warlord in action.