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I am going to agree with the sentiment that named critters should not be in the descriptions of monsters. Bob the vampire, Grazzt the Demon Lord, Hank the Illithid, Jane the Medusa, and also including Pelor the Sun God, Zeus the thunder god these should all depend on the individual campaign and...

I like the story hooks. Lower crunch emphasis and more book real estate used on fluff. I like that. the one page entries for each creature, like in the Monstrous Compendium may be overkill. For the Jacklewere: how did Grazzt create them though... That is something best left for an adventure to...

You make an excellent point here. Due to the lower math in the game. Stats will make a massive impact on the actual outcomes in skills and the areas that characters will be competent at. Example, should the sorcerer be the face of the party or should the cleric/paladin/warlock? I think they...

So the warrior type classes have the option of going DEX or STR. Also I did not notice this before but the turn undead feature is based on WIS now and not CHA. for the Bard I said INT too because of Bardic Knowledge. I am a fan of packaging all of the Caster classes features into one stat...

Stats and needs Fighter STR Rogue DEX Barbarian STR possibly CON too Monk STR, DEX and WIS (This will be the worst effective class) Paladin STR and CHA Ranger DEX and WIS Warlock CHA (but should probably be WIS) Wizard INT Cleric WIS and CHA (Would like to see just CHA on this) Druid WIS Bard...

This is an interesting perspective. Which casting stat should be used with which casting methodology. Clearly Wizard and the idea of study should be attributed to INT. For those granted powers and do not have to study to get them. Lumping in the Druid and Ranger, and even the Warlock here. This...

We can only guess at the mechanics of some of these classes. I would imagine though there will be a couple of styles: the wizard spellbook know 2 per level the bard known spells table the cleric, druid, paladin and ranger know all spells Sorcerer will be with bard, warlock likely will too...

I think this edition will have a lot of house rules. It will be similar to 2e in this regard. Maybe not to that level but this edition is encouraging rules swaps in the form of modules, I think it behooves individual DMs and groups to take a hard look at the game they want to play. I support...

I think the debate was that their should be somewhere from 4 to likely about 15 classes I would have liked to see about 10, 12 is not that far off. The way it is now if they can actually construe a Monk worth a damn I would be happy to have that included. Really Barbarian is the only one I...

This is handy for nixing the barbarian. Which I am sure many will want to do, although, it may be more trouble than it is worth.

So we have 3 updates on the the Sorcerer, Warlock, and Bard. I thought I would discuss in a holistic way all of the classes and what we know. Full Casters Bard It is hard for me to justify the existence of this class as a specialized enchanter with some skill use and healing thrown in. I think...

This was my thought about this too. So he is basically a beguiler from 3e's PHB2. Or he is a psion telepath, swapping the psychic baggage with bard baggage (not sure which is worse). Or like above he is an enchanter. I am not seeing the unique niche here like MM says in the article, to give the...

not affected by backgrounds but by settings... This is true you need some way to deal with the additive nature of spellcasting. There are some creative ways of doing just that. So that is not an issue for me. Ultimately my lament is that subclasses and backgrounds operate in very similar...

Not really, I am looking at it from a perspective of campaign design. If you want to have a unique campaign setup, it makes sense to have new backgrounds for players to select. In some cases though subclasses will have to be barred thematically or rewritten to fit in. If they were the same...

I think the advantage/disadvantage mechanic is a very good one. I think separating out exactly what it affects is the key to the 5e game design. It needs to be consistent if you are mixing apples and oranges advantage/disadvantage and modifiers, there better be a rhyme and a reason. Otherwise...

I wish backgrounds and subclasses were the same widget.

Have not read the thread but I thought I would comment on this Mearls post. Exploration and stealth. Thank you. Hopefully this removes the stupidly absurd un-mathtastic opposed rolls (can you tell I don't like them). Passive perception is the way to go. Try and sneak by someone just look to...

Bit of a sidestep with the article, but what struck me in it was what is the difference between a pact and a domain. I still don't like it. One extraplanar creature grants you spells because you worship it and another grants you spells because you bargain with it... Ok whatever. So 5e magic is...

I don't really care if he is edition warring or not. Hopefully I can advance this conversation. From his posting, I think the explanation about trying to use the first few levels as a moratorium on what is working and what is not working is no different from previous editions. Spelling it...

KaiiLurker: I agree with your points about the quality of options. I think that excellently explains something I think is important. If there are 12 ways to make an archer or 4 ways to make a necromancer those are lost opportunities to make breadth in the core rules. I should point out some...