New Posts For Thread: First impressions with playtestinghttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtestingHi there!Me and my group played a few days ago our first playtesting with the 5th ed materials and I would like to share some of the ideas we had. I would like to begin saying we liked a lot the new rules. We were completely dissapointed with the 4thThis is very true. Specialties in 5e, at least the low level ones, are more about options than character increase. Feats were a MAJOR part of your character growth in 3e and that made them SOOO important that taking a wrong feat was enough to scrap ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtesting?post_id=524358305#524358305This is very true. Specialties in 5e, at least the low level ones, are more about options than character increase. Feats were a MAJOR part of your character growth in 3e and that made them SOOO important that taking a wrong feat was enough to scrap aFri, 21 Sep 2012 15:13:43 -0500Oh, okay. I think I get what you're saying.One thing to take into consideration is that specialties don't really make you better at most things. Except for Survivor or Healer, the other specialties just give you options and those options aren't alwhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtesting?post_id=524351515#524351515Oh, okay. I think I get what you're saying.One thing to take into consideration is that specialties don't really make you better at most things. Except for Survivor or Healer, the other specialties just give you options and those options aren't alwFri, 21 Sep 2012 11:29:18 -0500With "completely useless" I am repeating (well translating, we are in Spain) the words said by our Rogue. His complaint was because he did not have any chance to get traits to improve other weapons. In 3rd ed you had the possibility to build, for exahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtesting?post_id=524347761#524347761With "completely useless" I am repeating (well translating, we are in Spain) the words said by our Rogue. His complaint was because he did not have any chance to get traits to improve other weapons. In 3rd ed you had the possibility to build, for exaFri, 21 Sep 2012 09:31:41 -0500That's a bit of an exaggeration, and it's not nearly as bad as it was (for example) in 3E. Anyone with the archer speciality still gets to add Dex to hit and damage with a shortsword or scimitar (or rapier, dagger, etc); in 3E, the archer would stilhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtesting?post_id=524325011#524325011That's a bit of an exaggeration, and it's not nearly as bad as it was (for example) in 3E. Anyone with the archer speciality still gets to add Dex to hit and damage with a shortsword or scimitar (or rapier, dagger, etc); in 3E, the archer would stilThu, 20 Sep 2012 13:17:40 -0500Well, I´ve spoken about dragons only as an example. And I meant a little more than using the corpses, If I remember well the Ankhegs (I´m not sure about the monster) had the trait of improving cultivation in areas they were living in, bechttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29388603/First_impressions_with_playtesting?post_id=524321653#524321653Well, I´ve spoken about dragons only as an example. And I meant a little more than using the corpses, If I remember well the Ankhegs (I´m not sure about the monster) had the trait of improving cultivation in areas they were living in, becThu, 20 Sep 2012 11:38:57 -0500