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I beg to differ.

People always think the game is more balanced than it is and are afraid to mess with things. I remember when the Black Company D20 campaign gave Fighters 2 extra skill points per level and everyone was all "this is terribly unbalanced, the game was carefully calibrated and the Fighter was was...

This is ancient. It goes back all the way to 3e at least. Back then they saw Prestige Classes as a tool for the GM to customise the game to their setting. That's not how it worked out in practice. Of course they were partially responsible for that too. But as late as Tome of Battle they...

People who don't buy books aren't average customers for the simple reason they're not customers, but they are still a complicating factor because you still need those people. I also think there's rather a gap between people who buy all the books and do surveys online and casual players who...

Sounds good to me. If someone wants to be a a squire of solamnia I certainly won't complain about getting Great Weapon Master or Sentinel at level 1. (Or even both - variant human). They can avoid falling of their horse while I wreak havoc with the opposition. Seems fair. I may be better at...

Edit:Nevermind.

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They only get feedback from the people who do the surverys. The surveys are representative of their most engaged customers by their very nature. It's a slow process, but what the most engaged customer wants and what the average customer wants are not always the same thing, and there's the...

If there's one thing you can say for these decisions it's that they're market tested. The sheer conservatism of everything they do is paramount. If they do this it will be because they get positive feedback*. It's interesting that they've been trying various ways to thread this needle for a...

Aaah they're prestige classes then.

Well not the Squire of Solamnia feat. It's a very weak feat for it's intended users (martial classes going into Knight of Solamnia) most of what it gives they already have. That's fine if it's supposed to be weaker than a normal feat, but not if it's intended to be equal.

And if he needs to fly, or teleport or planeshift or any other of a number of myriad things that a wizard can do easily by late game? If it can't be solved by hitting it with a sword, the Fighter doesn't have anything he didn't have in the early game, except for magic items he may have found...

Honestly we should just chop the high end of the game off as a dead loss. It was clearly only ever really intended as aspirational anyway.

I have a hard time seeing a 20th level Fighter as Thor or the Hulk. Faced with an army of minions to fight Thor throws his hammer in their midst and adds a Call Lightning to it, Hulk slams the ground so hard he causes a n earthquake or rips a tree out of the ground and mows them down a dozen at...

The reason for that is that it's a literary device that's no longer needed most of the time. Part of it is that fantasy is established enough that readers generally know what the rules are, and for what does have to be explained there are existing conventions for explaining it from within the...

It's not just you. I'd like more games to come in a smaller size and be paperback.

It's wrong because either sooner or later the players will realise it, or simply because the DM is deceiving the players. He knows that if they knew, they would feel railroaded. Lots of them make blanket statements, or at least did in the past such as "the villain must escape at this point" or...

Yeah that sounds about right. I generally maintain that being raildroaded is a subjective experience and that's the core at it. I mean that doesn't make it wrong to look at a published adventure and say "this is basically a railroad", but I think that's mostly because, at its core, that's a...

You'd probably need a different reason for each class to want to use each secondary stat, which is a heap of work. Whichever way you do it the result will be the same. A Ranger needs Dex and Wis, and Con like everyone else, plus they need Strength if they want to go Melee. If you want to make...