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You're assuming larger parties include larger groups of players. There's nothing stopping people from playing more than one character...

Well, true. Yeah, but you usually could offload that on the MUs (who did have a use for Int) or later, bards. Wasn't particularly...

Honestly, the use of Hero Points in my experience is more of a "I really don't want to fumble this save I think" or "This seems like a...

Fair, though how significant languages were varied--considerably. I saw that too, but it still didn't directly effect your capability...

I mean as soon as you have someone who's paying attention to the probabilities involved and cares, its still going to be what I said in...

They're not very thoroughly integrated; all they do is buy you a reroll. You also don't get a lot of them (1-3 by GM choice). I think...

At least back in the OD&D days, a high Int for a non-spellcaster was effectively useless barring houserules, because there was no...

I think you've gotten confused what thread this is, Micah.

It might be somewhat reductionist, but I keep hitting people who've clearly done that, so I think the problem is still pretty common...

I understand that, but it only works as long as everyone you're playing with is coming from the same perspective.

Flexible attacks for some PC classes, and a lot of the way NPCs/monsters trigger attack riders work like that in 13th Age (well, 1e, I...

I think this is illustrative of Soviet's point. Fictional heroes from the literature which inspired D&D have traditionally had many...

That's fine, but in practice it still means with someone with a decent understanding of probability its functionally equivelent to "X...

In practice that's just a more drawn out way to produce an encounter power, since at some point the benefit drops below the risk since...

I'll again suggest that barring spells and class abilities, D&D has never much been good at this. Its probably better now than in the...