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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6165337" data-attributes="member: 5868">And despite fatigue, I'm reading it again.Observations thus far:- I've reviewed so many documents now I don't know what changed this time versus last time, and the "read me" is no longer as specific as it used to be.- Like change back to Mage, but they needed to do a find/replace on the whole document.- Must have missed the prior change to Halfling "Lucky" racial trait ... that's pretty powerful!- Still haven't addressed Human +1 to all attributes ... I still think it is too much.- WOW -- huge bonus to knowing a field of lore (+10).  Let's hope that getting additional proficiencies isn't easy or it will swamp the skill system.- Skills were removed, but I still see references to spot and listen checks? Ah, wait ... they're under ability checks.  So we've essentially reverted to an entirely ability-check based system, with the exception of what was a "Knowledge" skill.  I think that can work -- quite streamlined.  But I need to see how this module interacts with classes.- Looks like resting hasn't change, which will be controversial still.- You can cast in armor, as long as you're proficient.  Is that new?  Though looks like getting proficiency might be hard, as I don't see an armor proficiency feat (which might impede customization)- Barbarian: "Other proficiencies: Riding"  Is this a legacy item?  With skills removed, what does this mean?- Feats: I think I like the trade between Ability Improvement (easy, simple) versus Feats (more flavor, but more complex).  Wow, some of the feats do a lot (Arcane Archer as a feat).  They seem to be improved packages over all, though future feats will take some careful watching for balance.- Rogue: OK, what happened to picking pockets and opening locks?  They aren't listed under ability checks, and rogues don't seem to get better at opening locks.  So a rogue thief would not seem to be any better at thieving than a mage thief (maybe that's a good thing?).  Trap finding I've got as a Wisdom/Search check. Wait -- they're in the DM section under ability checks, not the "how to play" section under ability checks.  And open locks references a feat that doesn't appear to exist.Cursory: not bad, seems to be more streamlined.  The document needs some serious review for cross-referencing and proofreading, though.  They didn't get all of the deletes.I'll be looking forward to feedback from people playing at Gen Con.</blockquote>

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