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If I revise the monk, my general approach of not gating things behind stats will apply. I think the only class that is likely to retain...

That's just the normal way things work. This is referring to a situation where the caster declares intent to cast spells while not in...

Technically, it's not multiclassing - it's actually two different classes or two paths within the same class. You wouldn't do...

I think that's kind of my point in a nutshell. It doesn't make sense given the long duration a spell takes to complete to take into...

@Mannahnin : Good informative post, but I do just want to note how incoherent it is in the fiction that the guy casting Fireball has to...

People into old versions of D&D are nerds, news at 11. :)

I think the relevant text regarding melee vs prolonged actions is on p.66 of the DMG which attempts to explain how to resolve a weapon...

You have no idea how much I hate the monk. A rewrite of the class would be a gutting of it. I didn't allow it in 1e. I didn't allow...

I can definitely see giving minimums for WIS and CHA instead of or as well as the ones I've listed. One good reason for doing that is...

I am very aware of that, but what I'm saying to you is that it doesn't make any sense. The complexities of that are handwaved away and...

Yeah, I get it. It would get even worse if I rewrite the fighter to have special abilities. We don't want players gaining abilities by...

Nope. That's a completely different issue that I knew about but didn't bring up. As I mentioned, height does follow a Gaussian...

Yes, dual classing is a thing. And Lanefan is objecting to certain classes of fallen cavaliers being forced "unrealistically" to give...

I literally put height in the essay as an example of where it would be true. I'd have to research. If the thing is true it would have...

Yes. I know I should rewrite them but oh the pain of that job. I do miss segments and spell casting time though in later editions...