Ratskinner
Adventurer
XP/Encounter budgeting
Y'know, I really don't care which they use, so long as its explained well, and transparent as to what happens if you mess with it. I'm fine with Encounter budgeting....but I'd like it to be more flexible than 4e. That is, a wider range of "interesting". When I was running 4e, I felt like it was way to easy to turn a fight into a cakewalk or disaster (by 4e standards, anyway) by mis-budgetting or coloring outside the lines. Its something I really miss from AD&D, a sloppiness that lets encounters vary significantly. (I would accuse 3e of the same problem, but the CR system was so bad that it had no hope of being so.)
Y'know, I really don't care which they use, so long as its explained well, and transparent as to what happens if you mess with it. I'm fine with Encounter budgeting....but I'd like it to be more flexible than 4e. That is, a wider range of "interesting". When I was running 4e, I felt like it was way to easy to turn a fight into a cakewalk or disaster (by 4e standards, anyway) by mis-budgetting or coloring outside the lines. Its something I really miss from AD&D, a sloppiness that lets encounters vary significantly. (I would accuse 3e of the same problem, but the CR system was so bad that it had no hope of being so.)