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How is Wish handled, exactly?

And, I hate to say it, but that's what we have here.

I would shed no tears if race was something you wrote on your character sheet and treated like hair color. Stupid racial bonuses need to stop.

The skills rules are Magic Tea Party. The wizard is useless (save ray of frost) and saddled with arbitrary casting restrictions. Clerics are god. The fighter has regressed to Vanilla Action Hero/useless at high levels Too much DM fiat - how does the trade (for the rogue) work? What do these...

You linked that stupid tier list? The one with beguiler as tier 3 despite it being nearly as strong as a wizard, and where archivist and spell-to-power erudite are the be-all and end-all despite their class powers coming from DM pity? And the factotum, aka "If I dumpster dive through Unearthed...

Sure. If you want a 1st level 4e fighter. If we're going up to 6th level and including Complete Warrior, I should probably take it to 7th level - giving me two utility powers (Unstoppable and defensive training), Rain of Steel, and Come and Get It - none of which you can match. And I'm still...

The fighter jumps super high like a final fantasy dragoon. And the warlord inspires everyone. Any more questions?

First level 3e fighter can bull rush, trip, grapple, disarm, sunder, power attack, cleave. But people will inevitably bring up the difficulty using those untrained, so let's check out some other stuff. But let's take an actual usuable build, shall we? Human Fighter 6: 1:Power Attack, Cleave...

Because dimension door is totally a nonmagical fighter power...oh, no, wait. PHB1 warlock would like a talk with you - half it's powers were unusable and it didn't deal striker level damage. As would PHB1 cleric, although it did get some good stuff. The system didn't really support much on...

I don't feel like messing with quote tags, so I'll reply to Neonchameleon here. 2e Monks: Complete Book of Priests. Hey, it's no more core than Heroes of Shadow, despite what the 4e developers would have you believe. And you have basically proven that to equal the 3.5 core books, I need to...

Actually, it is. You will recall the controversy over the expertise feats? The low accuracy of attacks in 4e means you pretty much need every little stupid fiddly bonus you can get. So right away you need a primary bonus to your to-hit. That knocks out a lot of races right there, because you...

Now, I'm no big fan of 4e. But I came to these conclusions after my friends and I ran a 4e campaign: Race/class dependency. No one likes being told they MUST be a gnome if they want to be an illusionist. Grind: Too many hps are annoying. A legion of fiddly little buffs which change by the...

I don't see this actually working. Note their fighter did not get good saves, can't fly under his own power (oh, so necessary), and, as I said earlier, all of the mythical fighter things in the article can be done by a mid-level wizard. Kill 400 mooks? Spam fireball. Not even impressive by...

In other words, the things fighters can do at high levels are equal to the things a mid-level wizard can do. Yay balance!

We still have Mike Mearls. That does not fill me with confidence.

I'd argue #5 makes the rest of the article a joke. Again, these seem like they'd all vary based on your god. Why the hell would Boccob want you wading into battle with a quarterstaff if he's the god of magic and can probably grant you some nice spells if you ask? You'll note the sample cleric...

Kinda dumb IMO, mythological divine magic isn't exactly subtle. Does anyone else think #5 is in response to the overwhelming backlash against not being able to play an evil cleric in 4e? I've edited out the real world commentary. Next time don't put it in. Thanks. Plane Sailing

Actually, it's probably better for your group that they do so. Otherwise if you end up playing with someone who optimizes - and roleplays - their character, you will get to watch as your sword-and-board fighters see the batman wizard. And they won't be annoyed with you forcing them to...

I don't get why you're all jumping on anti-hero player because, and I say this as a 3.5 fan, he's absolutely right. No one likes seeing trap options like 3.5 shadowcaster or 4e binder which look cool on paper but are completely useless in a real game. And yes, Savage Wombat, you can totally...

Doesn't go far enough. If you are casting 5th level spells at 12th level, you are not level appropriate to the opposition. It does not matter whether you have more 5th level spells, you are not as good as Willy the twelfth-level wizard. Willy has planar binding, you have lesser planar...