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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6342059" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm waiting for him to ask! I'm a very simple old-fashioned girl at heart, don't you know! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />Okay, good way to put it.If I had a positivity meter towards 5E, it's fair to say it had been trending towards the positive over the last couple of weeks or so. The art preview for example, I thought most of the art was mediocre-to-good (which is an improvement from 4E, sad to say, but I will never claim 4E had great art, because that'd be a bald-faced lie - it had a number of great pieces, like the "Wood Elf Performing a Ritual" one, but overall the quality was super-blah - not bad, not good). Tiefling preview was 7/10 for me, which as a PICKY BASTARD when it comes to Tieflings, is really a high score, and it was edging in on an 8. Basic in general made me more positive, because whilst flawed it's clearly workable. The Hermit background was totally grade-A awesome, as I said in that thread, too. Can't get much more positive. So y'know, I am enthusiastic/positive about stuff, but people tend to ignore that!So I was quite cheerful. Then we had tidbits from the Alpha PDF leaking - and they were largely positive. Then I actually saw the Alpha PDF, and oh god, the majority of the Feats there, I would classify as horrid. Even recent stuff before them was a lot better. I won't go over that again, but they're bad, and really surprisingly so, like, OUCH. I anticipated straight improvements from October - this is straight-up worse in a variety of ways.There is one curious thing that gives me a shred of hope - some of the Feats seem way more "complete" than others - the ones that new to this, like Mage Slayer or even War Caster (which I think is OP but does seem like what we were promised, Feat-wise), they seem like "proper" Feats, not horrible 3E junk (as I said, not even 3.5E level!), so perhaps 5E was moving back in that direction. It's weird that they stripped-down the other feats though, making them more boring and less about making the PC you want.ANYWAY, back on your question - to make me feel more positive about 5E, I think I want to see more previews, preferably of cool stuff that HAS changed since that Alpha. Things that are improved, or that are just awesome, like the Hermit background. I'd really like to see some proper magic item write-ups, too. And to be totally honest, a big part of me is waiting to hear what they've actually put in the DMG. But yeah, previews, cool stuff - being told the Alpha PDF is nonsense would help (but I imagine that they think that'd just draw attention to it, so that won't happen).</blockquote>

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