Li Shenron
Legend
A few ideas I liked during playtest:
1- "specialties": these were nothing more than simple lists of pre-selected feats, but looked like a good reference plan that you could pick and later decide to deviate from [these were axed when feats became optional and big enough so that each feat could be already thought of as a specialty, but I still like the idea]
2- "incidental tasks": neat and simple [were replaced by the uselessly verbose and prone to rules-laywering "one object minor interaction" rules]
3- "exploration turns": a good way for structuring routine wilderness travel when you don't necessarily plan any major events during it [didn't have enough exploration tasks to provide much tactical variations but it could have been a start]
4- bolder higher-level features, like for example Fighter's Indomitable being at-will
5- Bard getting more college features (at 5 different levels): it's the only class in the PHB that only gets them 3 times, so there is a long waiting time between the second and the third, and nothing after level 14 [I think a larger spread would give a better feeling to the colleges, even if some were minor features]
6- Druid having no mention of armor/shield restrictions [this beholdershit was NEVER playtested, it only sprung up into the printed PHB]
1- "specialties": these were nothing more than simple lists of pre-selected feats, but looked like a good reference plan that you could pick and later decide to deviate from [these were axed when feats became optional and big enough so that each feat could be already thought of as a specialty, but I still like the idea]
2- "incidental tasks": neat and simple [were replaced by the uselessly verbose and prone to rules-laywering "one object minor interaction" rules]
3- "exploration turns": a good way for structuring routine wilderness travel when you don't necessarily plan any major events during it [didn't have enough exploration tasks to provide much tactical variations but it could have been a start]
4- bolder higher-level features, like for example Fighter's Indomitable being at-will
5- Bard getting more college features (at 5 different levels): it's the only class in the PHB that only gets them 3 times, so there is a long waiting time between the second and the third, and nothing after level 14 [I think a larger spread would give a better feeling to the colleges, even if some were minor features]
6- Druid having no mention of armor/shield restrictions [this beholdershit was NEVER playtested, it only sprung up into the printed PHB]