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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badapple" data-source="post: 5978819" data-attributes="member: 71811">Here's what I'd like to see: I want at least one new character class in the core Player’s Handbook that has never been released before. No matter what character class I play, I want some resources to manage and several meaningful options to choose from in a given round of combat. I want monsters to be able to do nasty things to characters beyond hit point damage.  I want to fight some monsters and be in genuine awe and surprise, and a little afraid, at what they can do. I want all character classes to be relatively balanced and interact synergistically with each other in combat at all levels of play. I want it to be easy to design and run adventures.  I want to be able to completely wing it, let players make sweeping decisions, travel beyond preset corridors and whether my players square off against the Royal grand wizard, an emissary from another plane and his abyssal bodyguards, or the thieves’ guild I can say “Are you kidding me?  Wow I never would have predicted this.  Ok give me five minutes” and be able to set up virtually any battle or challenge that the story would dictate face the players and scale that battle to an appropriate challenge level from cakewalk to suicide mission. Most of all I want something new.  I don't want to go backwards and feel like I'm playing first edition again.  I don’t want a game that is built on the foundation of a previous edition, any edition for that matter.  I want a brand new game that is a new edition that completely stands on its own merits.  I don’t want sacred cows.  I want those cows turned into steaks and burgers and grilled and slathered with bbq sauce.  I want a game that is not afraid to take some chances and anger some of it's fanbase in the hopes that the remaining players, and newcomers, will find it a better game than what has come before.</blockquote>

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