If they severely cut down on AP (on par with AoS's Rend, where almost no one has better than a -2), improve cover substantially, and cut down or eliminate re-rolls of all kinds, I will be very pleased.

The presence of stratagems or rules-bloat was never the problem, in my opinion, but a symptom of the problem, which is that everything and everyone in the game is too good at what they do. 9th was in many ways the most balanced edition (everybody can win!), but that's only because the game became less of a strategic exercise and more of a fireworks display. The only question that ever really mattered was "can you see it," and that's dumb. 

Thank you, Irisado!

I love how the Guardians came out too - I put lots of work into them!

Still have ten more to get to this point and then I will highlight the shuriken catapults.

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Some more progress on the ranger.

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Working on ranger number two.

Working on some rangers.

This is a recording of a D&D campaign that I play in on Wednesdays.  Some context for the video:

• We are two members down this session.  One forgot what day it was, and the other lost power after someone took out a telephone with their car
• The DM gave us the chance to avoid all this by recommending we wait until everyone was present, but we thought we'd be fine to face anything as it was
• Harold is played by the guy who "panics"
• Harold is played as a character that has left a life at sea and just begun his career as an adventurer.  He has never seen a person being killed until the first fight we had in the dungeon.
• Harold is a Sorcerer with a might 26hp at level 5
• His experiences in combat so far have lead him to believe that he is invincible because he has been targeted many times at range but has yet to be hit
• The giant door that we are standing in front of was an Elder Gate, and when we opened it we were all hit with a curse that prevents us from regaining hit points.  We, the players, know that, but our characters don't.
• Before we opened the door, we had discussed an intricate plan to allow the non-darkvision characters an opportunity to see the single Manticore we knew was behind the door
• After the door was opened, we then proceeded to have another discussion about how the curse would effect our plan.  This is what lead me to ask if the monster could hear us.
• It was only after combat began did we find out that there were, in fact, three manticores waiting for us.

Begin with the video at this point: 
https://youtu.be/Of8zmP4kmYA?t=5040

After combat begins, you can skip to this section:
https://youtu.be/Of8zmP4kmYA?t=6943

The more we play, the more our group name of The Wurst Experts seems appropriate (yes, wurst was intentionally spelt that way lol)

Making progress on the lumineth!