D&D 5E Favorite things in the playtest that never made it

[Undrave]

Slight bump, but based on this thread and the recent sorcerer thread, I've been going through the Next playtest again.

Can't believe I missed this but in the final version of the playtest (and from what I can tell, ALL of the playtest packets), Sneak Attack did not require a finesse or ranged weapon! Wow.

So that means throughout the entire playtest it could be used with any weapon and then between the final playtest and the PHB, they added that requirement in.

All the more reason to dump it now.

Personally I would have made it limited to 1 handed weapons or ranged. That seems to basically do the same thing and the Rapier would still be the most popular weapon for Rogue... but you could see brutes with clubs and like... Dwarven Rogues who sneak attack with throwing axes while wearing heavy armour. That'd be cool.