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Adventurin' can come in a lot of different packages. I had a party take over an apothecary's store, and one character took up an herbalism skill, and wants to make potions during downtime. Can this activity root the character in the setting more than killing random dungeon monsters? I say yes...

I'm willing to accept that a potion of invisibility should be slightly more expensive than a scroll with an invisibility spell, for the reasons you point out. But the notion that the potion should cost 100 times more than the scroll is silly. The potion price I stipulate in my list, and the list...

The problem with the potion-making rules is, they're ambiguous. If you follow the Magic Item crafting rules on p. 129 of the DMG, and you want to make a Potion of Invisibility (classed as a "Very Rare" item), it will cost you 50,000 g.p., and take you 2000 [sic] days to brew .If you follow the...

Those are important, too, but I've got a lot of gold riding on this one, so hope springs eternal...

1. An expansion, including a buffed Beastmaster and Chaos Mage, and nerfed Moon Druid is published. 2. Drizz't dies in a new FR novel. The scimitar is no longer a light weapon, and is upgraded to doing 1d8 damage again. 3. The D&D movie is released. It's a box office smash, and receives...

Absolutely - and there is a (somewhat heterodox) school that even considers Narmer-Aha, with the upraised hand holding a mace, to be a prototype (via the Middle Kingdom Senwosrets) for the Greek Herakles. And the Akkadian, Old Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian dynasties were also represented by warrior...

I ran with Trojan War heroes because Arial was using them to make the opposite point. There happened to be lots of kings, who I think clearly fall into a particular class, on one battlefield at one time (I didn't hit all of them, and didn't even get into the princes). Their existence? Unclear -...

You're insisting on modeling some sort of historical realism, but the examples you give (e.g. Borgias, non-martial kings) either illustrate the opposite of what your are trying to argue, or are too idiosyncratic to make your point. Or your contentions show a lack of understanding of those real...

No, but someone did say this: I'm showing how it can actually be, not only possible, but normal, or common, for kings to actually have a fairly narrow skill set as a qualification for kingship, in the real world. It doesn't make class real in your game world. There are lots of indications...

"Hey Kabeiroi! Are you hill dwarves or mountain dwarves?" "What? We help our father Hephaestus tend to his forge. We don't understand what you mean." "Aha! Gotcha! You can't group yourselves as a D&D race! Race is metagame!" "Hey Daedalus? Are you a guild artisan?" "What's a 'guild'?"...

You don't need to know anything about D&D classes to be able to identify with a group that's a pretty close analog to class. The fact that "anyone" (or a lot of people, at any rate) can describe themselves as a warrior is actually a pretty strong indication of the fact that class models...

No, that's Odysseus identifying himself to the Cyclops. Kicking sand in his eye. Except that he has no eye anymore...

Nope - Achilles and Odysseus would have no earthly idea what class they belong to: http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Iliad19.htm#_Toc239246276 http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.9.ix.html

Well, you can always jack up the CR of the monsters in a planned encounter by 3 points or so. Alternatively, in the age of bounded accuracy, lots of little critters pose quite a danger. I threw 20 kobolds armed with slings and having partial cover against 4 3rd level characters, and they nearly...

If you create a real danger of lingering injuries when characters go down, you won't feel the imperative to have rolling waves of combat every time the party sets out. Here is one proposal:

That was precisely my point. Power in the sense we usually think of in D&D (fighting prowess, casting spells, and other abilities) are all forms of power that exist in the game world, and they are either going to have to be integrated with other forms of power toward the end of upholding some...

And I, on the other hand, think that the murder hobo play style is more inspired by dungeon-oriented play in which the PC's standing in the social order is not particularly relevant, so there is no reason to think through how a class might be organized precisely because all you are really doing...

I don't know what you think is inevitable about your conclusion (and if I were so inclined, I would snip at you for telling me how I have to play the game). I was quite clear that the 1% (or .1%, really) was an assumption, but one based on several factors, which I outlined (knowledge about how...

It wasn't supposed to be RAW (or any kind of "R", really), or a stipulation of an inescapable conclusion. It was just an attempt to think through ways in which class could function as a fairly realistic, in-game structure, and to put forward a few arguments why I think some of the assumptions...

The classification would be along class lines, obviously, since the powers are associated with classes and not backgrounds (assuming people possessing the powers can emerge from any background; there can, in some settings, be a close association between certain classes and certain backgrounds...