I, personally, think surfaces as they are now are absolutely fine. It remains to be seen how it scales once casters will start getting AoE heavy hitters like Fireball that are sure to spawn big surfaces, but it does add an interesting tactical touch to otherwise barebones combat.
As a whole - I'm totally for more options available for players to approach the encounters because it simply is more fun, than just going dry by the book. I'm also super hyped about couple latest interviews hinting about additions to blander classes like Fighters in form of some sort of additional ability.
I do think, however, that they need to make barrels a tad more prohibitive, like make them weight 100kg+ so only strongest team members can pack maybe one of those just in case. But other than that - if even after that change there would be people trying to do this nuclear explosion setup or some such - more power to them, at this point silly fun and laughs > being a total tightass, IMO.
Things like thunderwaving a bunch of weapons and trash into dragon also should remain a thing, except for this silly gold blast thing, where you can drop a bunch of coins and oneshot a dragon with those.
Last edited by Gaidax; 10/11/20 11:35 PM.
