Recent content by Maxperson

Will the real Mr. Gygax please stand up?

That's putting the cart before the horse. XP is earned as you adventure in order to advance you as you go along, not to get you ready to practice stuff. If all it is for is to show what you already learned in training, then it become entirely meta since it represents nothing about improvement...

I'm always looking for cool new D&D content(not adventure paths) for my physical collection. As for digital, I am very content with never buying digital content again.

Yes, if you use the training rules, that makes the XP entirely meta as it's not what you are doing to earn the XP that is advancing you. It's the training you are paying gold for AFTER you've gotten the XP.

That makes it abstract, but not entirely meta. Whether it's from avoiding encounters, fighting, or doing fighter class stuff, it still represents experience and improvement from what you are doing in the fiction. It's not the best way to simulate improvement, but is still representative. If...

3e kinda had that as well. There were several spells that had an XP cost to accomplish the spell effect.

An opinion is a view or belief about something. Someone whose opinion, whether a view or belief, is that the world is flat, is wrong. Just because it's subjective doesn't make it correct.

Yep. Forgot about power stunts entirely. Karma was a critical meta-currency.

Karma is 100% a core mechanic of Marvel FASERIP. You can't remove it without crippling the game.

Karma allows you to succeed where you would often fail, like superheroes do when facing long odds. Further, karma is the way that superheroes advanced their stats and powers, and acquired new powers, like superheroes often do in the comics. Take out karma and you've removed advancement and...

Marvel FASERIP literally had the karma mechanic as one of it's primary mechanics. Karmia is an entirely meta currency.

My point is that they've basically started over with a bunch of heroes. When Superman died and came back he was very different than before he died and came back. His abilities have varied a ton over the years. Not just in which ones he has, but also with how strong those powers are. Strong...

The point is that comics, even for heroes like Spiderman and the Hulk, have never been consistent, let alone highly consistent. Hell, Superman couldn't even fly when he first began life as a hero back in Action Comics #1.

The point is that measurement doesn't matter when the measurements are 3, 7, 4, 3, 9, 12, 2, 5, and ?(whatever the next guy is going to use). When the "measurements" = whatever the writer feels like, it's no different than Batman who has whatever the writer feels like. You can measure Batman's...

My preference would be to see it as a full class, but WotC is allergic to creating new classes, and only does so when the concept is sufficiently different from other classes. See the Artificer and the attempted Psions. So there's no way they do it as anything other than a subclass. As for...