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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6326656" data-attributes="member: 58197">Yeah, this is a nice touch. You aren't shut out of higher stats--assuming you pick a race that gives you at least +1, you'll reach 20 in your primary stat by level 8 at latest--but if you want that 20 at level 1, you gotta be hot on the dice. Or if you want to spend your early ability score boosts on feats instead... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Overall, I'm pretty darn happy with what we've got here. I don't like the wording on short rests, and the search sidebar is a wall-banger, but those are easily remedied, which is another thing I like about 5E-it looks very easy to house-rule and tweak. I love the new (old) equipment list and the fact they put all that stuff in the basic game! And ideals/flaws/bonds/inspiration are awesome concepts that have been floating around the RPG world for ages, but somehow never made it into D&amp;D*. Until now.[size=-2]*Now that I've said that, I'm sure somebody is going to point me at some splatbook from 1E that had all this stuff. Fine, it never made into the D&amp;D core rules. Happy, Mr. Pedant?[/size]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6326656, member: 58197"] Yeah, this is a nice touch. You aren't shut out of higher stats--assuming you pick a race that gives you at least +1, you'll reach 20 in your primary stat by level 8 at latest--but if you want that 20 at level 1, you gotta be hot on the dice. Or if you want to spend your early ability score boosts on feats instead... ;) Overall, I'm pretty darn happy with what we've got here. I don't like the wording on short rests, and the search sidebar is a wall-banger, but those are easily remedied, which is another thing I like about 5E-it looks very easy to house-rule and tweak. I love the new (old) equipment list and the fact they put all that stuff in the basic game! And ideals/flaws/bonds/inspiration are awesome concepts that have been floating around the RPG world for ages, but somehow never made it into D&D*. Until now. [size=-2]*Now that I've said that, I'm sure somebody is going to point me at some splatbook from 1E that had all this stuff. Fine, it never made into the [i]D&D core rules.[/i] Happy, Mr. Pedant?[/size] [/QUOTE]

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