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Wasn't "yes, but only if you want to" available since 3.0, at least for arcanists? Wizards for those who liked Vancian casting, sorcerers for those who didn't.

Not really much to discuss then, is there?

Could you be more specific? Really, I don't see how 4E departed more significantly from 3E than 3E did from 2E (and my experience doesn't go back beyond that). Are you talking about Vancian/preparation magic?

What is "classic D&D 1974-2008 gameplay"? That's a pretty huge span.

The article sounds like a newbie DM steeling himself to consciously examine assumptions and introduce house rules for the first time, not a veteran professional offering ideas for substantive improvement. Perhaps I'm misreading the intent of the column, and its goals and audience really are...

I don't have a source, but it seems reasonable to assume that the increase in hit points is intended to keep pace with the increase in the PCs' damage output.

Equestria Daily: Traditional Game: Ponyfinder (Pegasus Added!) As far as I know, there is no more, yet. You could keep an eye out on 4chan. :)

It's good that they're branching out instead of retreading the same ground with Complete Warrior, Complete Fighting Man, Complete Combat Guy &c., but seriously, Paizo? Ponies?

I think the original poster works for WotC. I don't think he has access to anything like what he describes, because it doesn't exist, yet; I think he is trying (successfully!) to sound people out for ideas they really are under consideration for 5E. After the last few fiascos, someone...

Oh, yeah, favoured soul is what I should've used to explain what the mystic is like, but I like the mystic so much more that I tend to forget that the favoured soul exists. :p

It's to the cleric what the sorcerer is to the wizard. Cleric BAB, saves, HD, and spell list, but the sorcerer's spells known/spell per day table. They get only one domain, and the domain spells as bonus spells known. Drop armor and give them the monk's AC bonus, and free Improved Unarmed...

Well, what is it about a monk that makes them a monk? What is the core monk ability that you wouldn't want to give up for spells? Give that to the cleric, and you have a divine spellcasting monk. Especially this late in 3.5 lifetime, the majority of what you'd want a monk to do can probably be...

It has quite a lot to do with monks casting divine spells, since one of the classes is very monk-like, and has abilities that are very spell-like, so it's a very good model for monks casting divine spells. That's not quite accurate. A fighter with Tome of Battle is (a bit) more powerful and (a...

As someone who used the argument you quote, I think it's largely because art, and taste, and Zeitgeist, are (among other things) a reaction to what came before. In the early days of 3E, when we were buried under 2E's multitude of settings and wonky mechanics, fluff was easy (even good fluff)...

I don't think that claiming that people don't understand their own preferences very well is dubious at all.

How do they compare to 3.5 dragons? More precisely, how does Pathfinder dragons vs. Pathfinder PCs compare to 3.5 dragons vs. 3.5 PCs. In 3.5, dragons were intentionally under-CR-ed. An 8th-level party would wipe the floor with any CR 8 opponent, but would have to put in serious work against a...

In "present day" or in the time when goblinoids ruled Khorvaire? I seem to remember you talking about the latter. How is E6 working out that far beyond 6th? 6+10 means they got 10 "levels" beyond 6th, right? Which translates to, what, 10 feats, spells, abilities unavailably by 6th? What's the...

Nevertheless, it's very weak. That's true, and I admit I hadn't considered that. Now that I have, I still think it's a very weak reason. (I'm not challenging you, just saying that I don't agree with Paizo's reasoning. :))

That's a very weak reason. Not many (if any?) monk prestige classes use BAB as the limiting requirement, precisely because monks have medium BAB. Feats would be available sooner, but it would hardly shatter backward compatibility if monks could get, say, Improved Critical at 9th instead of 11th.

Indeed it does! :) One never knows with you, does one? :) What have you been up to, D&D-wise? Thinking of trying Pathfinder?