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A few days ago, I complained that WotC was not selling its merchandise on its website. Then I looked on the front page a few days ago, and found an ad for D&D T-shirts, and I thought it was about time. But then I saw a blog post that shows that WotC has had a merchandise store since February...

Thread for discussing the meat of this playtest, class changes. Cleric - New Diety types, trickster, protector, lifegiver that give domain spells. Not really an improvement over 3e domains, with less customization. Turn Undead is now something all clerics do, because YOU demanded it. You...

Just a fun thread for what rules modules you would like to see (and by consequence what you want to see in the core game). Here is mine: D&D Basic module: Dwarf, Halfling, Elf, Human. Fighter, Wizard, Thief, Cleric. The most iconic of magic D&D items. A random dungeon generating table...

I never liked ranger spells before someone explained them in these boards as being a few tricks that the ranger learned in order to survive out in the wild. That of course makes perfect sense, as the ranger can't exactly pop off back to the city for a clerical cure disease or poison every...

I was sitting and thinking about skills, and why it isn't a problem that everyone can pick locks, because generally only one guy buys the lockpicks. Like a thunderbolt I realized only one guy buys the lockpicks. We already have a cost that discourages players from being skilled in...

In all of the editions of D&D, there has never been a table of underworld tools in the PHB. To me, this is just as bizarre as not having a full weapon and armour list for the fighter. If a thief is supposed to be a skill based character, and a slippery and conniving cheat, he needs equipment...

If I want to play a ranger with the playtest packet with D&D Next, I can pretty much already do it. I I just need a start with a fighter and give him a good dex. Then I need is a background that gives me spot, stealth, survival and nature lore. If I take the sharpshooter speciality, I...

So I got three players together to try out D&D. Player 1: Doesn't play D&D anymore, but moved onto different systems during the 3e era and missed 4e. He made up a Warlock because it had the newest and most interesting mechanic, and kept saying "that's awesome" to various 4e innovations (like...

So a lot of people are having problems with the human ability score boost, because it seems to be at first glance OP (which it really isn't, as judged by my playtesting anyway) or because it means that humans will have better overall stats than their demi-human bretheren (which it does). I...

So the primary goal of this edition is to get the majority of gamers from the different factions to sit down at a table together. So the question is simple. Would you play this game if without a great deal of protest or complaint if you group and/or friends wanted to? In other words, could...

As I like to meet my Characters rather than specifically craft them, I rolled up a series of ability scores in order. STR - 7 DEX - 13 CON - 18 INT - 15 WIS 13 CHA 11 Since I had a low strength score and a high Con score, I decided to play a halfling. (With a human it doesn't really make...

So we've got a thread on people's specific deal breakers that would keep them from joining 5e. The poison pill which would keep them away. How about a more positive thread? What is one rule that you'd like so much that you'd be willing to put up with a whole bunch of bad ones, and would make...

Lots of people are talking about how they want things to be in the first PHB and what they don't. Should 5e take a page of 2e and include more complex, optional rules alongside the more complex options? For example take non-combat skills. The base rule was that your character could do what...

I don't think that there is much point debating whether there should be healing surges or not. They are either in or they are out, and given the strong backlash against them, they are probably out. I like healing surges a lot for smoothing out pacing, but I understand why some people wouldn't...

Should 5e have save or die spells or poisons? I hate it. I think its terrible design for a table top game, and it would have to be an incredibly impressive system to overlook the fact that weeks of Sundays, Sundays I could be using for any number of activities, are rendered moot by a single...

The thread about HP/Healing Surges got me to thinking that perhaps the problem of "realism" is HP itself. HP is basically a flexible system of randomly determining how powerful each successful attack is, and how well the character can withstand it. What if however you were willing to...

So I'm rolling up a Vistani, and I really like the idea of a thief that is clairvoyant. I'm also really like the essentials thief, since I hate daily and encounter attack powers (no matter the class). So is there any way at all I can get the Level 1 encounter power of my seer theme with my...

I have made the switch from 4e to 2e a couple months ago, and I'm a player in a 3e game. I've thus had the experience of playing the games fairly close to each other. I think then I have a somewhat unique perspective of having the experience of each edition fresh in my mind. Here are my...

I have in mind for my fantasy heartbreaker custom-rpg system something based on old-school rpg's, where you pay and train to gain your next level. Except, instead of buying your abilities only for the class that you've gathered XP for, you instead can buy anything. You want to improve your...

When you fight with two weapons, you generally get two attacks. Unfortunately, this generally is overpowering, as having two attacks was always a better option than having a slight shield bonus or a slight damage bonus (half strength) from an two-handed weapon. What is the best boost to AC...