Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6246584" data-attributes="member: 83996">Sorry, the play test is over D&D: Next doesn't exist, and won't likely look anything like the play test (at least according to the developers). So really playing the play test materials is pointless at this time.There is no arguing that 1E and 2E are better designed from monsters that are challenging, but not super deadly to dice rolls that make sense (ever been blinded, prone, and intoxicated in 5E? Yep you just have disadvantage once).If you just want to see what the 5E play test was like, sure go play it, but you'll not be playing what will come out on shelves in summer 2014. That's just a fact.They will also run into all the problems I and others listed. That's also a fact. You will have character's die because a 1st level monster got a lucky shot in. Your players will slaughter just about any monster they come in contact with (short of the cheat feeling super bosses, if those made it into the last play test packet).Casters will dominate with spells (while never running out around 5th level or so). They will destroy your carefully designed boss monsters with a single spell (something around a 20% save chance to make the save or die save on the monsters part). They will get mad when you use a creature with a save or die effect to take them out of the game with a single roll. These are all just facts you have to deal with.I suggest playing previous editions because they are better thought out. You get all the same deadliness with a better framework and with better ways to mitigate it (such as scaling save bonuses).My Preferred edition is actually 4E, with 3.5E coming in second and 2E in third, but I assume they want to try 5E for the old school feel or for some of its features. Its much easier to house rule those features into 2E or 1E than it is to play 5E at this point. So my post stands. Either play another edition or wait for the game to come out. No point in playing the play test now...</blockquote>

Verification