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The following is from Xath, one of EN World's moderators, and one of
EN World's press representatives at D&D Experience:
I had the good fortune to have a sit-down chat with Scott Rouse and
Andy Collins today at D&D the Experience. In preparation, I gathered
questions from EN World posters, and asked as many as I could. The
results are below:
Question: What are your favorite aspects of the new edition?
Answer: Scott Rouse says "I feel like I'm roleplaying more. I've found
I've been able to get into my character more and sort of play the
character instead of managing a lot of the rules interactions." Rouse
thinks of himself as an "optimizer," which I take as the polite term
for min/maxer. In his current play-test group, he's playing a
trickster rogue. He started out as a brawny rogue, but re-wrote his
build to encompass what he wanted to get out of his character. Though
many of Rouse's re-specs have been as a result of rules changes in the
play-test process, he did insinuate that the edition has some
rebuilding options built in to the system. Scott Rouse also took this
opportunity to explain one of his favorite combat encounters.
He had been stocking a lot of his "per encounter" and "per day"
abilities for a final fight. His party was fighting a band of Goblins.
The party Warlock was down, and the two Dragonborn were keeping the...
