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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 4096372" data-attributes="member: 3192">Hot damn Geron, those are 5 definite likes for me too.  I think they are movements backwards to a better design though.  There are many of those, mostly hints those so I'll wait.  Forward thinking likes include:Siloing Abilities.  Groups can use what they want, alter what they want, add, create, whatever, and it all still hangs together without wiping out the rest of the system.Level Tiers.  I'll likely jam everything I like into the first one and call it "the game", but explicitly dealing with different game styles and recognizing the need for the game to change gets a thumbs up from me.Simplifying DMing AND Play.  I think they should have increasing levels of complexity options for both players and DMs, but starting off easy and keeping time requirements to a minimum.  Another big plus.  DMing was always hard, I hope they made it easier for this edition to bring in new ones.Rituals.  They realized magic is the big bang every so often.  This bodes well at least for stripping the game down and building it into what I need.Story Leads / Story Design positions in house.  The whole damn game is a story and needs to present as good (and varied IMO) an artistry as possible.  I've really been turned off by their world design and descriptive elements for a few years now, but I recognize that the Dragonlance authors and the adventure designers in the 80's sold the game far before many of those buyers knew the rules.  Wizards (and any company) needs real artists in these areas.  Not math heads, but visionaries.  World of Darkness is likely the greatest proof of what dreams can sell, but there are many others like Paradigm Concepts, The original Warhammer trio, CoCthulhu, Midnight.  It's not always rules that sell an RPG product.Online character creation / Rules database.  Simplifying the game even more to a cool computer app, so you don't even have to read the book if you are a player is 100% awesome.  Rule bloat can and will get out of hand for non-computer users.  I hope they put in a house rules option and a "Rules we use" selection tool too.Online gameplay.  They recognized the biggest constraint on gaming was time. ...Yet everyone is online even when they can't get together to game.  This may not be the awesome I need from face-to-face, but it should entice a new community to try more FtF.Organized Play, specifically the FREE Player Finder Database.  Yeah, it's an old idea, but they are the only ones capable of really making a multi-million person database of games by area, playstyle, age, and any number of other factors. I think it will go over big.  They just have to promote the hell out of it.  It is soooo damn easy, so needed, and my only worry is it will be overlooked in place of other online products.And though it's one of the throwbacks (all unmentioned here), I'd really love:- Humans in the Monster Manual??? (please oh please)</blockquote>

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