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<blockquote data-quote="pauljathome" data-source="post: 5990985" data-attributes="member: 21807">Well, it certainly reminds me of AD&amp;D in a lot of ways.And it is probably playable.But it is a system that I absolutely will NOT be playing as long as I have any choice in the matter whatsoever.In every single respect it is (for my tastes, obviously) worse than Pathfinder.Note : I'm NOT saying its objectively bad or anything like that. Just saying that it is very much NOT to my tastes. And I find it hard to believe that it will be a unifying edition. It will play VERY differently from 3.x, PF, or 4th edition.1) They've reduced the power curve far, far too much. You've got almost the same skills at Level 1 as Level 5. Your to hit is almost identical. Etc.2) Class dominates your character to a far greater extent than I want it to. If you want a skill monkey (even a knowledge skill monkey, or an acrobatic skill monkey) you pretty much have to be a rogue. Fighters are going to be insanely better at fighting than anybody else. Etc.3) Lets totally go back to glass cannons. D4 hit points for wizards? With all that damage? No. I kind of like characters to live.The current system is very obviously unbalanced in lots of ways. While I'd hope for better that will largely be handled by playtest comments. But it will take a long time to get this mess reasonably balanced. At this point, I suspect that I was optimistic thinking it would be released for GenCon next year.Oh, and WOTC has done an even worse job than usual of making its suggestions reasonable. Lots of them are laughably wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pauljathome, post: 5990985, member: 21807"] Well, it certainly reminds me of AD&D in a lot of ways. And it is probably playable. But it is a system that I absolutely will NOT be playing as long as I have any choice in the matter whatsoever. In every single respect it is (for my tastes, obviously) worse than Pathfinder. Note : I'm NOT saying its objectively bad or anything like that. Just saying that it is very much NOT to my tastes. And I find it hard to believe that it will be a unifying edition. It will play VERY differently from 3.x, PF, or 4th edition. 1) They've reduced the power curve far, far too much. You've got almost the same skills at Level 1 as Level 5. Your to hit is almost identical. Etc. 2) Class dominates your character to a far greater extent than I want it to. If you want a skill monkey (even a knowledge skill monkey, or an acrobatic skill monkey) you pretty much have to be a rogue. Fighters are going to be insanely better at fighting than anybody else. Etc. 3) Lets totally go back to glass cannons. D4 hit points for wizards? With all that damage? No. I kind of like characters to live. The current system is very obviously unbalanced in lots of ways. While I'd hope for better that will largely be handled by playtest comments. But it will take a long time to get this mess reasonably balanced. At this point, I suspect that I was optimistic thinking it would be released for GenCon next year. Oh, and WOTC has done an even worse job than usual of making its suggestions reasonable. Lots of them are laughably wrong. [/QUOTE]

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