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Healing surges are fine and work well. No matter how much some people squint and pretend otherwise, HP ARE NOT PHYSICAL DAMAGE. They have not been for four editions now. Nor should they be in 5e. D&D has always been about heroic fantasy, and by heroic I mean PCs being able to perform feats of...

I approve of everything Mearls has said. :) Now bring on the playtest!

I'd rather have the core races (human, elf, dwarf, halfling) and classes (fighter, wizard, rogue, cleric) fully playable with all mainstream modules (skills, feats, tactical rules, etc) up to level 20 or 30. Higher level is always neglected in playtests and its always the most problematic area...

AWESOME is when the 15th level Sorcerer in our Pathfinder game won initiative and cast Quickened Chain Lightning and Prismatic Spray as the opening salvo and pretty much ended a dramatic combat encounter against the CR 15 BBEG and his lieutenants with those two spells while the rest of us stood...

I just saw Mearls' response on WotC's site. This bit is interesting (the bold is mine): Interesting. So it seems like Monte quit because he didn't get his way. That could be good or bad, I guess depending what his way was and what the fan's way was, and which personally fits your preference...

Wow. First of all, Monte Cook isn't the be all end all of RPG design. He's done some nice work before (e.g. Ptolus), but thats about it. Arcana Evolved was so-so, and for all the good in 3e, there is bad as well. However, Monte does have a history of abandoning projects (e.g. Dungeon-A-Day), so...

Right. I think the debate over whether system mastery is desirable or not is completely separate from whether you like 4e design or not. :) One reason I like both Pathfinder and 4e, is that the designers of both games recognized system mastery was not desirable. 4e took a radical design...

Lack of tact, issues with grammar, and spelling aside, our newly joined friend is actually referring to oft reviled aspect of 3e called "system mastery". Something Monte Cook himself admitted was intentionally added to the game. Deliberately subpar choices created as traps for new players so...

I should clarify two additional provisions I omitted before: You cannot recover encounter powers that grant you additional actions. So no infinite Steal Time chain. :) And encounter powers with their own special rules on multiple usage per encounter, or special recovery rules, can only be...

I had two primary goals. My first goal was to make 4e feel a bit more free form and flexible in power use. I've always felt like there should be an in combat recovery model for encounter powers. I wanted the players to feel more like the powers system was about cool options, not about...

For character creation, every PC gets one expertise feat for free. They may also choose two backgrounds or one background and one free multi-class feat. Every PC gets 1 action point per encounter. No milestones. I use inherent bonuses and magic items are rare, powerful, and mysterious. Think...

Crunch should be separate. For one thing its annoying to look up a spell and hold up the entire game while you parse some flowery prose when all you need to know is how much damage you do and what type. It should be right up front, or even at the bottom in a summarized block. Now if monster...

I am a huge Tome of Battle fan and was wondering if there are any plans to mine that book for martial maneuvers for 5e? Also, I get that some people prefer a more gritty playstyle, so I don't expect wuxia/anime style maneuvers to be core, but are there at least plans to add such material as one...

Except Warlords don't heal physical wounds with words. They allow you to recover the portion of your hitpoints that constitutes morale and gritty determination, which is the same way that HP have worked in every edition of D&D.

Honestly, the whole daily spell slot resource management mini-game has always felt more video-gamey to me. Its never made sense to me that a mage runs out of magic. I've hated it since 1e. It also causes lots of balance issues. Either you guessed correctly which spells to memorize and the rest...

Clearly, its April Fools Day. :)

'corporate jingoism'? That doesn't even make sense. D&D Next is simply a temporary nickname for the next edition. That is NOT what it will actually be called. I highly recommend reading through Morrus 5e info link at the top of this thread and the original news posts and links from the...

*sigh*. No. Not even close. Ok. Mods feel free to close this thread. Its only going to go downhill from here. :(

My apologies. It was not my intent to be inflammatory. I edited the title to be less so.

Definitely not my intent, but its just frustrating to read WotC columns where they seem to do a tap dance around a 4e concept because they seem afraid to just say what it is. Just call a spade a spade, people! Don't call it a "flat bladed long handled garden tool" because you are afraid the...