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The existence of something like exceptional strength and XP bonuses for having high stats are the very opposite of game balance. They...

Oh ho, we have a name drop for Matt Decker (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")!

I know there are Voyager fans out there, but a lot of episodes just seemed boring to me. There was a lot of pointless filler all...

The Cleric was long in this strange position of being, on paper, one of the strongest classes, but in practice, they got relegated to...

Even with it's flaws, SNW is still the best Trek we've had after a long dry spell. Every time I have an issue with something going on...

I don't know about that. I'm loving it.

That's why Kirk only got a little mild plastic surgery, in that episode of TOS. He knew how bad it could go.

Yeah, just think about Kirk's experience with this episode while watching "The Enterprise Incident".

Right, the alternative way to look at this is that most things should be minions and that having hit points is the unusual factor. Take...

Well there are feats for it, but the training could be more accessible.

I think it's likely more that armor training isn't as hard as the game makes it out to be, and that many armor restrictions and...

On a related to the OP note, considering how perfectly playable the The Strategic Review bard was, the fact the PHB bard was turned into...

As Sage Advice on page 10 in Dragon #56 says, "the bard-to-be must stop at the 6th, 7th or 8th level of thieving ability — between, but...

As is well-known and cannot be reasonably disputed, the Bard Class started as an error. Do you know how old mapmakers would put fake...

And the party is just gonna sit around and wait weeks for that? It's already a stretch that they'd come back out of the lost ruins out...