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As I have seen now via several playtest leaks and various columns and comments by WotC, they are importing ideas and concepts from 4e, but appear to be deliberating obfuscating the terminology and descriptions. Seriously, its silly and stupid. I can only imagine that the purpose of doing so is...

Instead of nerfing casters, I'd rather see melee classes boosted to match. Tome of Battle style! :) Then I can have my cake and eat it too. ;)

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I highly doubt it. There are already 4e books that have gone out of print and WotC hasn't reprinted them and with 5e coming, probably won't. Aside from the original PHB1, DMG1, and MM1, I'm pretty sure everything prior to 2011 is out of print, except for Essentials related books. Some of those...

I like the image of the cleric surrounded by a horde of undead, who lifts up his holy symbol and in a thunderous voice defiantly calls upon their deity to strike down these abominations. The undead reel back, feebly trying to ward themselves against it, but are quickly consumed and blown to ash...

Not really. I'm basically stripping out the entire powers system and uniform class structure altogether and importing about half of Pathfinder in its place. Not a small change.

My ideal edition would include the following elements: From 4e: point buy stats, static HP, the unified bonus progression for attacks and defenses, the core combat system pretty much whole hog with movement powers made optional. 4e monsters pretty much as is with again movement powers made...

Being away all weekend and reading that 5e "leak" fills me with absolute horror. I hope the released playtest looks nothing like the rubbish I read in that link. I pray this is an elaborate troll.

I don't think you necessarily need a whole mechanical framework built arounding being engaged or not. Simply allow players to spend actions to achieve certain combat benefits and you achieve the same effect. If you use Action points as the currency of combat, you can use them as a sort of cross...

Yes, the default hit percentage when all things are equal (equally good offense vs. equally good defense) should be around 65-75%. Not 50%. A player should on average only miss an opponent of their level 1 out of every 3 or 4 rounds.

I agree and disagree with this. A rules system should be robust enough to quickly and easily adjudicate creative player actions and should encourage such actions. But in the long run, I expect players, even the creative ones, to put forth some effort in actually learning and understanding the...

Assuming we want to keep bonuses symmetrical with 25% gap, or +5 points on a d20 for easy, moderate, difficult, and you go with the original post of DC 10 being say Moderate, then a trained PC with the appropriate stat for that skill at a high level, should make that Moderate DC roll 90 to 100%...

I would say that's a fair assessment, with the caveat that 3e can swing to extremes depending on the class makeup and rules expertise of the players. Lots of spell casters slow things down, but an all melee group is probably pretty fast.

I think this entire thread is based on a tail wagging the dog premise. Trying to design the game around what a bonus a 1st level PC should have is completely backwards. First, for skills decide what the average success or failure rate a first level PC should have with trained vs. untrained...

Agreed. Main contributors to 3e combat length are multiple attack rolls per PC coming from different sources, two weapon fighting, crit confirm rolls, iterative attacks at higher levels, casters running turns for one or more summoned monsters, not to the mention the DM running sometimes multiple...

If 4e combats are taking too long thats a problem with the players and the DM wasting too much time. When my group was prepping to compete in the Ultimate Dungeon Delve, which is a timed convention event, we really examined 4e combat and how long it should take to play through a turn. We...

Personally, I think camping in D&D is way too frequent. I feel its too heavily tied to not only encounter based attrition, but also to the recovery method of far too many character resources. I'd rather just keep exploring the dungeon and only camp when it makes sense from a narrative standpoint...

I also agree that players shouldn't be able to metagame the mechanic such that fireballing the rats knowing it won't kill their companion is the best option. But I don't know if its possible cover every corner case with rules, nor do I think the game should. I like games that has a base rule...

Ah, I see what you are saying. I would use the 4e model for death saves. Essentially, in 4e your failed death saves do not reset until after you take an extended rest (i.e. camp). So if you fail a save, then are healed back to positive HP but then go down again, you don't get three new saves...

I agree, but the problem with a simple HP system is some people will be upset at mixing warlord healing with clerical healing and having them both heal the same thing. I'm cool with that, but I know some aren't, thus this system. But yeah, it should probably be optional to keep the base game...