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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8964326" data-attributes="member: 58197">At this point, with some distance from the OGL fracas...I was pretty excited about the initial playtest packets. I really like what they're doing with feats, and many of the tweaks to the mechanics are long overdue.However, the class redesigns so far have left me cold*. There are improvements here and there (mostly known balance problems and exploits being addressed), but I really don't like the new approach to spell lists, and I'm also not fond of the decision to move all casters -- at least so far -- onto the spell prep model. The 1D&amp;D classes we've seen feel very bland.My hope is that they are deliberately taking the &quot;streamline and simplify&quot; approach to its limit, to gauge the reaction and see what works, and they will then pull back where appropriate. However, there's no guarantee of that, so at the moment my overall response is &quot;Meh.&quot;*Or maybe that's the weather. We've had more snow in March than we got in January, and it's not even halfway through the month. What gives?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8964326, member: 58197"] At this point, with some distance from the OGL fracas... I was pretty excited about the initial playtest packets. I really like what they're doing with feats, and many of the tweaks to the mechanics are long overdue. However, the class redesigns so far have left me cold*. There are improvements here and there (mostly known balance problems and exploits being addressed), but I really don't like the new approach to spell lists, and I'm also not fond of the decision to move all casters -- at least so far -- onto the spell prep model. The 1D&D classes we've seen feel very bland. My hope is that they are deliberately taking the "streamline and simplify" approach to its limit, to gauge the reaction and see what works, and they will then pull back where appropriate. However, there's no guarantee of that, so at the moment my overall response is "Meh." [SIZE=3]*Or maybe that's the weather. We've had more snow in March than we got in January, and it's not even halfway through the month. What gives?[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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