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You can give them spell slots or arcane blasts or both or whatever you want. Like I said in my earlier post the Knight 2 heavy...

PCs are much more complicated than Monsters and it would be extremely time consuming to build out NPCs with a full blown PC class...

Oh okay, everyone has spell slots then

I find this is pretty common in many groups, but it also often does not work out well for the last person to join decide. I think...

Look all I'm saying is if you are giving up something you can do without chance for an action that involves chance (i.e. an attack...

Mqybe, maybe not. Like I said if you miss every single turn you still lose and if you end up missing every turn the rest of your party...

Not true. You can always kill the enemy on a later turn, or your allies can kill him or numerous other things can happen. The only way...

And if you attack and miss you are not any closer to winning the fight either and you are closer to losing it than you would otherwise...

But why don't you just keep playing what you like instead? This is what you are saying to me, as if my wants for a new system shouldn't...

That is like saying I am no closer to being rich if I don't throw my money into a slot machine. The combat is more likely to be...

It very much is. For example in combat you choose to attack - You roll and attack roll and if it is low it misses, if it is high it...

The classic method works much better when you don't decide what class you're playing before you make the PC. That often what I do. I...

The only class feature that I can think of that does this is Bardic Inspiration and things like spell preparations were decoupled from...

Exactly, and that's part of what keeps it fun! :) It also keeps it risky. When I ran the numbers a few years back on causes of PC...

I like to play the current version of D&D too, I am just doing the same thing as everyone else here - telling them what my preferences...