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I'm rather fond of a lot of the roles that magic allows for in D&D. I think magic users should be able to heal (or buff in general), control battlefield conditions, or gain important information better than non-casters. Non-casters, then, would interact socially, deal damage, and make informatio...

I'm sorry if I have hijacked this thread... The problem is that it really doesn't balance things for someone to be the MVP for half the session and worse than useless for the other half. So you'd need the game to ensure the wizard's moments of shininess and dullness were both within the acceptable r...

Literary heroes are kept occupied during interesting times and D&D should represent literary heroes during interesting time. Literary heroes aren't kept 'occupied' by having four fights every day. This is true. If fighters abilities are balanced outside of combat as well as inside combat then h...

But it can be assumed that the party will have motivations and that the DM will be sensitive to those motivations in such a way as to be able to balance adventures to not blatantly favor casters. In Spider-Man, 'do this or Aunt May gets it' is sufficient motivation to get Spider-Man to do whatever ...

Heroes don't take time off? I know that most literary heroes are kept reasonably occupied, but that's usually "interesting times" rather than that all times are quite that interesting. While adventuring, that is. Literary heroes are kept occupied during interesting times and D&D shoul...

Not all adventures should really be time sensitive, though a game where all are would be interessting if stressful. Why not? Isn't there always something more that the heroes can be doing? Another wrong to right and so forth. If you ask me, the party should always be struggling to keep their head a...

"I wait a year. What? I'm an elf. A year is nothing to me." While you are waiting your home is destroyed by an army of orcs, your family is raped and murdered and your fields are burned because this adventure is time sensitive. Also, the fighter has gone off and left you because he is cap...

Why can't the two mix? I'm not trying to be confrontational, I genuinely do not understand your point. Why can't CR's be based on not just one encounter but several encounters strung together. In that case, casters are pretty cool until they use all of their spells up at which point they suck and f...

That seems pretty heavy handed. Why not find roles for these characters to fill and make them uniquely qualified to fill them? Hitting things with a sword well doesn't mean you can't pick locks or track or do any number of things that magic isn't designed to do. Moreover, it seems to me that battle...

A lot of people want to be Conan or Legolas, just like some people want to play Daredevil or Spiderman. Sure they don't rip holes in dimensions with their physical abilities, but they're still cool characters. Then the ability of PCs to play such characters needs to be phased out if they're not the...

What I'm looking for is a system that has you take a race level and a class level each time that you level. It would be better to alternate between race levels and class levels. That way you don't have to think up as much stuff. So: Level 1: basic stuff Level 2: gain class-specific stuff (eg encoun...

But in terms of functional systems, having there be a reason why a wizard is not the solution to all your problems, you need a master of war (warblade?) to do whatever it is, would be infinitely preferable to "Sure, you can fly. Do you prefer to call it a spell or a manuever?" - and not j...

In order to do that, every race would have to have some sort of high-level ability. Exactly, that is why I want to see a system that has successfully done this to use a template. Anguirus, that sounds a lot like racial paragon classes. http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/races/racialParagonClasses.ht...

There were the "I'm a ____" feats, which were fun to read but didn't exactly work out. They were a Tome feat which gave your characteristics of some creature or another. But there were a lot of problems, not least the prospect of loading up on the feats and claiming you're a baloccubuskyt...

This is my first post on this message board so please forgive me if this is not in the spirit of the board or posted in the wrong place. What do you guys think about racial characteristics that level with the character, functioning similarly to classes allowing for level dependent abilities and alte...