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Group hug? :)

Yes, that's exactly my problem with the more common viewpoints around classes. It's the idea that thousands of NPCs are all going to...

My problem with D&D isn't that it's class based; it's how strongly level based it is. A class is basically a partially complete...

An 8 Int is slightly below average. I played an 8 Int rogue in 4e. He was uneducated and intellectually incurious, and I told the DM...

Any attempt to turn any stat into a real life metric is going to result in more contradictions than symmetries. What was the Str one...

For reference of newer posters: https://www.enworld.org/threads/geniuses-with-5-int.482860/

It warms my heart to still see references to that, all these years later.

My apologies. :D

Oh, it's definitely game specific; any of my arguments against are entirely centering around D&D play. There are plenty of games where...

Exactly! People who are playing the game need additional things at the game level of play. Be it balance against other classes...

As a passive observer, I can definitely say that some of your posts read as strongly dismissive of other people's opinions that you...

This is focussing on the wrong part of the issue. « People should play their stats » is uncontroversial. There may be some argument...

Classes and levels are both player-facing constructs for creating player characters that are "balanced" against each other. We know...

Well, it’s there and pretty popular. :) And players like classes, because they provide them with concept hooks and a conceptual...

It’s trivial to do classless PC design if needed, and generally players are content to use the core class mechanics. And I’m very...