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I don’t know…asking a DM to judge whether a task is Easy, Moderate, or Difficult does not feel like we’re placing too great a cognitive burden on them.

That’s an interesting point. I would suspect part of the reason is that the spell system is so explicit in what each one does. It’s laid out in black and white, and there’s no need (or opportunity) for it to vary depending on the table and the DM. The skill system is much more freeform. It’s...

Right, thanks! Perfect example…that I somehow managed to completely forget about…heh.

Ah, so Inquisitors are only meant to be Sensitive? I assumed they were pretty much (Dark) trained Jedi.

Without further evidence, I’m going to go with ‘it’s just lightsaber training’. She was taught by a Jedi on how to use the Dark Saber effectively, and I have no reason not to believe that would translate into using an actual lightsaber. Speaking of Force Sensitivity though, has the movies or...

Now, that, is an excellent idea! Reskinning an existing adventure into a wilderness romp could be a lot of fun. My big issue is always trying to come up with a scene interesting enough to catch the players attention (as opposed to them just reaching for their dice as a way to skirt past it)...

Hmmm. Good points. I guess looking at it that way, a Wilderness encounter in a lot of ways is just the set-dressing for one of the other standard encounter types (social, combat, etc). Maybe that's why I've never been good at setting them up in a satisfying way...I keep thinking about them as...

So, what would people like to see to make potential the potential Wilderness side of the game more interesting? Other than a daily grind for food. Skill challenge encounters (similar to monster fights but with the environment) is definitely one idea. Raging rivers, rocky canyons, bad weather...

"All trackables or none" is in the middle? Out of curiousity, what do you think is on the far edge? And just because I (or others) don't want a more robust resource tracking game, doesn't mean we aren't interested in discussing other ideas. The whole concept of skill challenge wilderness...

All or nothing is all you have? I’m guessing there’s a whole excluded middle there.

I would certainly like to see more guidance on using wilderness based set pieces as non-combat encounters. Like, skill challenges. That sort of thing I could get behind, much more than the idea of constant foraging as a regular part of adventure.

Every time someone say their experience doesn’t match yours, you always respond that it’s because we’re doing it wrong. If only we were using your game, we could all be as happy as you. Can you not accept that your game may be exactly the sort of fun you are looking for, that it might fit you...

Not to you perhaps, but it’s does appear that some of us feel it is.

This all reminds me…does anyone remember The Wilderness Survival Guide? Man, I wanted that book so bad. And when I finally got it, I loved it. Rules for weather, terrain, temperature, and how it all would affect travel and combat. Rules for foraging and hunting in different terrains, and...

Not just spell caster players. Despite my preference for a magic ranger, I am more likely to choose martial characters over full casters. And the idea of a foraging mini-game sounds utterly horrifying to me. I’m not interested in spending my limited game time rolling to find rabbits, or even...

And yet it is something causing disagreement. You want it gone completely. Others want it tweaked one way, while others have different suggestions. It's just a good example of how hard it is to get this right. Anyway, I have no attachment to Goodberry one way or another. It was just the...

I certainly wouldn’t mind some more robust crafting rules myself. But you sort of underlined one of the problems with this sort of thing…finding agreement amongst the proponents. Crafting rules might be enough to satisfy your ranger wants, but there are definitely more drastic demands being...

This is exactly the point I was trying to get across yesterday. Rangers have always been magical in D&D. This isn’t so much an attempt to fix them, as it is to change them into something they’ve never been. And look at what’s been suggested as needed in order to ‘fix’ them: 1. New wilderness...

Rebels is well-worth watching in its entirety, even without this. But yeah, I’m super-psyched to see them in live action. Actually, I’m just happy to be getting more Rebels in any format…

That's actually a very good point. I was thinking more about the current Ranger, not the playtest version. I can see where the changes there might be stirring up more vehemence.