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You're looking at this from a metagame perspective. In world there is no "CR" or "Level Appropriate" to save your ass. When you go wandering into the wilderness as a 1st level party sometimes you encounter a war party of Trolls or a hunting pair of Dire Bears and suddenly that C...

Adventurers have access to healing magic, while peasants do not. I mean as an adventurer you can heal and resurrect people. It really seems logical that every family should invest in a kid or two becoming high level adventurers. And why is that necessarily true? There are plenty of settings where m...

Well, in the first place most people never have the opportunity. They don't have the training, seed money or natural talent they'd need to do well as adventurers, and they have families to feed, fields to plough etc. etc. Adventurers are rare . Heck, even most adventurers aren't "professional&...

Help me find a good reason for it. Adventurers gain levels and power. They can gain enough so they can kill or buy any non adventurer and it does not seem that adventurers have a higher career mortality than anybody else due to healing and what not divine power. In fact it is peasants that seem to h...

If you're going to say that conceptually inverting all the attack numbers so that AC counts up instead of down is a minor change, you have nothing meaningful to add to the discussion. Changing the mechanics so that 3 is better than 1 instead of vice versa is literally as fundamental change as it is...

Apples are to cars as oranges are to heaters. Agree/disagree Discuss. Perhaps you could offer us some sort of context or explanation to explain what you're getting at, or is this going to be a guessing game? Lol You are right to ask. I came to this conclusion in the context of this thread over at r...

4e is to Descent what Rolemaster is to classic D&D.
Agree/Disagree
Discuss.

I guess that would depend on wizard spells, cleric powers?

A player should not be able to choose a magic item among other magic items without a sacrifice of some resource. If he is, his focus diverts to making the right mundane choice rather than the importance of each magic item. If magic items need to be impressive and important they should not be dispose...

Abilities: A, B Roles & their ability performances Role 1: A=4, B=2 Role 2: A=3, B=3 Role 3: A=2, B=4 Action: *You roll initiative for roles and they act in its order (round). *You want to succeed in a difficulty test to make your opposition lose resource points. Tests have two parts: part A &am...

Roles exist as a way to force multiplayer. Except that it's a tabletop game, so it's kinda assumed you'll willingly play multiplayer. Interesting observation. Roles indicate to others a different way of doing things that they can't follow. So if the game assumes roles it is like individuals having ...

That's how I feel. I'm fine with individual characters picking up a "role" as they identify a need in the party. I just don't like them being linked to classes in such a way that dictates what class the new player has to play when joining a game. Ok, then you can answer what "party n...

The yet as hypthetical dream edition of yours.
I believe it's apparent essentials has the same roles as 4e.

old school:
ever ready (fighter)
trick monkey (thief)
nuker (mage)
buffer/debuffer (priest)

3.xe
What do you think?

4e
striker
controller
leader
defender

5e
Insert your favorite idea


Discuss.
PS: it is desired to correct/challenge whatever premise you want in the OP

Nothing whatever like the 4e Leader and Striker, because those are shitty role concepts. But the different spellcasters would be good at different things. The Necromancer an the Conjurer would get monster spam and the Warmage would not. -Username17 Ok, I think this is the most important thing to so...

And then you'd have "exotic spells" that people could choose from when they got their selectable spells every X levels. And then spell prep is out the fucking window, you cast spells like a Warmage with all the Common Spells, all the Uncommon spells tagged for your spellcaster discipline,...

a) D&D 4E - derided as a very bad system as it severely limits player options, and despite its restrictiveness it's still unbalanced. b) Warhammer 3rd Edition - derided as a really, really weird system that can't decide whether it's a boardgame or an RPG. I am not familiar with Warhammer 3e but...

Yeah. That dude who is tougher than stone, can run so fast that human mooks cannot see him, is loaded on artifacts and explicitly stated to be magically enhanced . He is a Christmas tree and has some curses and protections cast on him, but his own abilities are simply badass normal. The fluff is im...

The easiest way to track this is still by a 2d map of regions where you put tokens in the various regions they find themselves. Yeah, but that map can seriously be: Region----occupants 1 ----Goblin 1, Fighter, Druid 2 ----Goblins 2-4. Wizard 3 ----Thief, Hobgoblin You'll have to fix that every time...

The easiest way to track this is still by a 2d map of regions where you put tokens in the various regions they find themselves.

Hmm, I like cosmologies that involve cycles somehow. That is, things or matters naturally tending to be some pattern of motion and never trully stabilize or freeze on some linear principles. Cycles that reflect natural order rather than morals. What fantasy cosmologies are you aware of that build on...

In D&D magic exists. To cast magic Wizards master deduction regarding its effects. Clerics are masters of induction. Clerics, to oppose the uncertainties and doubts of their approach need to employ abduction reasoning. So religion is a consequence of the magic they have experienced. In D&D m...

Kudos, very nice post. A comment though: pre-industrial era economies were abstract too. The problem with them is that people could not predict as efficiently as of today real economy complications or rather "disasters" and the risk assessment management regarding the fueling of the econom...

Basically versatility characters suffer from action restrictions. In other words, you have more actions you can do, but you don't gain any additional combat actions to actually use that versatility. So even if you can cast cure moderate wounds and stinking cloud, you can't do them both at the same ...

I see versatility like this. Specialized classes: you can do one powerfull action every round. only one action means if your enemy manages to hold his ground he can figure out how to take care of you. Versatile classes: you can do more than one action each round but their total power output is lower...