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I just saw this article written by Mearls in august last year. My first impression was that it is not a bad idea. I wonder why they decided to scrap it and put in the existing system.

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx ... l/20110816

Well I playtested a part of this "thing" and it sucks more in reality then on paper (and I am sorry to have spent the paper to print it out). Its like they took all the bad parts of ADnD, 3.0+ and 4th and mixed them all together. However the initial rage has cooled, I am now just disappoin...

This is my first post on this forum, but I have to make it so vitriolitic. I just want to say that I have been roleplaying for some 15 odd years, starting with ADnD. I liked ADnD. I like 3.5. I even like some aspects of 4th edition but find it a mathematically flawed system. I have been continually ...