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Honestly, I've never seen it as much of an issue in D&D. Now, I only started with 3E, so "cheating" has always probavly been built in...

Different people have different tastes. To me, that is an odd statement. If part of the ongoing discussion is the disparity between...

I wouldn't "try" for paladin at all. Eventually, the luck of the dice will qualify you and that's when you pull the trigger on paladin...

For the sheer amusement factor, maybe once. :) After that, repeating this process might not see you sticking around in the group for long.

4d6, drop the lowest. Always rolled in front of the group.

OK, everyone has opinions and we often exaggerate them for emphasis. I don't think such comments are intended to be taken literally...

Another consideration might be to dare to suggest up front right in the PH that there's going to be some character concepts the system...

My personal take is that I’d like to see multi-class go the way of the dodo in favor of much more classes and subclasses. That may just...

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...

I dislike the idea that an element of randomness and risk is somehow "unserious". Friendly fire is a thing in real life, and hardly a...

Yeah, as I said, thwt is entirely outside my real life experience, only something I've heard online.

And resolving uncertainty by random means (in our case, dice) is always a gamble. I disagree. Gambling isn't always needless risk, nor...

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...

Hors de combat? Downed?

Don't summoned creatures disappear at 0 hit points - but you can still incapacitate with like hold monster/person?