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One thing I loved about the Scarred Lands setting is that they actually had an in universe explanation for scantily clad casters...

Who's forcing anything? The class is what it is and does what it does, and if you don't want to play it then don't. If no-one wants to...

This implies three things, none of which I consider to be true. Every edition of D&D has been designed perfectly correctly from the...

Never had Barbarian. Bard is a generic catch-all name for Skald, Minstrel, and various other direct equivalents. Paladin - you have a...

Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles seem to be doing OK and their situation is similar. That, however, is a much bigger issue...

Also, the point at the beginning was not to sell the retroclone, but to have a foundation on which people could support the original...

If you don't want to play a healer, choose a non-Cleric class. Or, from my list above, a War Cleric; who would heal like crap (but...

Druids are replaced by Nature Clerics in the list I proposed upthread. "Druid" is a terrible name, in that both it and its root concept...

This is one case where I really do think less is more. I've never been fond of multi-classing even in our own games, which go back to...

Well, multiclassing as the WotC editions do it has to go as well.

That's the division of power in trad games. You talk to your GM and they help, or you step out, or you live with it. You can't make...

And the Joys of At Least Occasional "Simulationism" There's an approach to rule-making that shows up in a few places in D&D 5e (and...

From what I could gather, there seemed to be enough ways around niche protection in 4e that in the end there really wasn't very much...

Every version of a swordmage I've ever seen has been someone's attempt to be able to have the features of both a Fighter and a Wizard...

That's correct. I don't see the problem. What I think you're describing (correct me if I'm wrong) is the way it works. The DM has always...