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<blockquote data-quote="slobo777" data-source="post: 5940389" data-attributes="member: 6694877">I think the armchair game-design debates are interesting.I really don't think that the WotC 5E team are taking notes and trying to incorporate the ideas in the forum into D&amp;D 5E core. If nothing else, they are well aware of their options for adding and removing game elements, and what it means for the game.You need a certain amount of compexity at the core of the system to support a rich enough range of tweaks available via race, class, theme and background - each of these needs to add several game effects that have the right &quot;feel&quot;, and adjust the available mechanics in a simple way.Somehow I don't think the debates on hitpoints, AC etc are going to lead to more complexity in D&amp;D Next. We won't see big rule sets providing massive differences between armour types in core, nor will D&amp;D re-define hit points or add an injury tracking syustem. What they will do is adjust AC values, and if reactions are truly bad to e.g. Reaper, then the theme will get adjusted (my gut feeling is that it will not, although a few people really hate it, it's too small numbers of players, and an easily-removed or houseruled option for them).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="slobo777, post: 5940389, member: 6694877"] I think the armchair game-design debates are interesting. I [I]really[/I] don't think that the WotC 5E team are taking notes and trying to incorporate the ideas in the forum into D&D 5E core. If nothing else, they are well aware of their options for adding and removing game elements, and what it means for the game. You need a certain amount of compexity at the core of the system to support a rich enough range of tweaks available via race, class, theme and background - each of these needs to add several game effects that have the right "feel", and adjust the available mechanics in a simple way. Somehow I don't think the debates on hitpoints, AC etc are going to lead to more complexity in D&D Next. We won't see big rule sets providing massive differences between armour types in core, nor will D&D re-define hit points or add an injury tracking syustem. What they will do is adjust AC values, and if reactions are truly bad to e.g. Reaper, then the theme will get adjusted (my gut feeling is that it will not, although a few people really hate it, it's too small numbers of players, and an easily-removed or houseruled option for them). [/QUOTE]

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