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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MortalPlague" data-source="post: 6172779" data-attributes="member: 62721">Thanks for the write-up!  I'm glad you had fun; my group has been playing 5th Edition over a couple of short campaigns, and it's been a great deal of fun for us.About the internal development, I agree with you there.  I was hoping to see the playtest continue so that there isn't a need for errata a month after the books come out.  I'm hoping they'll do a beta test before they send the books to print.I'm with Enchanter Tom on this one.  I played a lot of 4th Edition, and I really liked a lot of what it brought to the table.  But minions were the hardest type of monster for me to work with.  They always felt like a waste of an attack even if they were actually threatening.  The most success I had was with minions who set up attack conditions for bigger monsters (like zombie minions who grab or pull prone, allowing a bigger zombie to use a special attack), or with minions who had challenges associated with killing them (explode on death, for instance).  But the usual minions always felt a little hollow.If you look at the playtest packet, shields are +2 AC right now.  They have been for a couple of packets.  And considering that monster attack bonuses scale slowly, I think they're in a good spot where they make it a tough choice between sword and board or two weapon / two-hander.</blockquote>