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Message: <blockquote data-quote="landovers" data-source="post: 6225799" data-attributes="member: 6750964">(Hi, long time lurker here)What I dislike from the playtest packets: -The already mentioned Hit Dice mechanic and racial attributes are high up there. -Going back to using the english unit system and always referring to time in terms of minutes instead of turns when it is more convenient. -Saving against spells instead of rolling to hit (why is this nonsense back?).-Some classes are severely limited. Backgrounds and feats are cool, but you shouldn't need to rely on them to make your character remotely fun to play. I don't see a design philosophy like I see in games such as 13th Age, D&D 4e and Dungeon World. I think they got lost trying to cater to many different kinds of audiences (fans of 4e, Pathfinder, old-school). Am I supposed to play TotM? Then why does Thunderwave push 10 feet? When does that come into play if we're not tracking distances? "Can I or can I not push the goblin into the pit?". If the DM has to make up these calls on the fly, this is not the game I want to play. Either small distances matter and we track them (4e) or they don't matter (13th Age).I do like "bounded accuracy" and overall lack of scaling except for HP and damage, but I think it's a fair concern that these two may scale too quickly for that to allow multiple levels to coexist.</blockquote>