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This isn't exactly correct. Buff stacking is not really a problem in 3e. Sure, you can use buffs to get more powerful than any mundane but this still chains you to the world of solving problems by hitting them really hard. Save or sucks likewise lose their appeal later in the game when monsters...

Oops. Well, since you haven't personally encountered the problem it must not exist then. Sorry about my mistake.

Ideally it would be great to get the class to a point where the DM doesn't have to apply special above and beyond effort just to threaten certain members of the party. You can sit here and rattle off special cases where the wizard is vulnerable all day but unless each and every encounter is...

I wonder if you could get all the pages laminated and if that would make the holes a little stronger too. It would make the book very very fat though. You'd definitely need a huge spiral. Then again, you could hand it to your cheeto-dust encrusted friend without fear.

Are you guys kidding? The economics of the situation means generic splat books are practically guaranteed. Sure, it might be nice if we had lots of books like Oriental Adventures but the problem with those sorts of books is that if you don't happen to be running an Oriental Adventures type game...

Yeah, I probably could have been a lot more concise and clear in my post but it was very stream of consciousness. I would say my main takeaways are: 1. There's too many spells to deal with them individually unless you are coo-coo for cocoa puffs crazy. 2. Dealing with them by groups isn't...

@OP You'd be the 1,000,001th person to try doing this and probably the 1,000,001th failure, but if you're going to take a shot at that legendary problem you need to actually understand what's wrong with magic in 3e. Like treating a sick man attacking the symptoms of problem will only make him...

Really? Where did you get this impression from? Please, we're all on pins and needles for something more substantial than "I got a bad vibe."

So, the evidence that earlier editions of D&D are not "over-designed" and have built in tolerance can be seen where exactly? The fact that they were sparsely amended? Really? There's absolutely nothing wrong or broken or ambiguous or contradictory in 1e and 2e at all? You're going to take a lack...

This is some mad strawmanning and goalpost moving if I ever saw it. The errata is only no good because you can't print it out and glue it to your book? Really?

You can't possibly be referring to Magic: the Gathering with this statement. Does WotC produce another product that people refer to as "Magic"?

Your expectations are completely unrealistic. "Things a 5 year old child could see" is a bar that very few professionally produced works meet 100% of the time on the first try. If the 4e errata simply never happened this discussion would not be here, plain and simple. You probably wouldn't have...

I can't even comprehend the point of view of someone who does not want errata. All the editions before 4e are choc-a-bloc with typographical errors, poorly worded rules text, and more than a few game bustingly broken things that you just had to learn to read, interpret, and ignore respectively...

D&D isn't like any of those three food products or like any other RPG in general. There are three distinct kinds of customers for D&D: - The Newbie: He probably hasn't played an RPG before or less likely he only has experience with another RPG. He might have some preconceived notions of what D&D...

Perhaps its a little of both. Lloth has this thing about turning her powerful followers into spider creatures. People who don't want that would see it as a curse, people who are drinking the Lloth Koolaid probably think that's awesome and want nothing more than to be turned into a fiendish...

You all realize that a number of iconic monsters in D&D were invented when Gary Gygax bought a bunch of cheap plastic monster toys from a dime store and wrote stats for them right? Things like the owlbear and the rustmonster? Yeah, those started out as cheap throwaway toys. All this talk of...

Were you looking at a textbook? Textbooks are hilariously overpriced thanks to an the absolutely wacko excuse for a "market" that is higher education. Note that none of the Harry Potter books run over $20 in hardcover despite running WELL over 500 pages for the later ones, though admittedly they...

I don't want a bard who needs to be built around hitting things with a sharp object. That's too much like 3rd edition to me.

D&D books have always been remarkably cheap for RPG materials. A $50 book is normal. Then again for your average $50 gaming book you get the equivalent of a PHB and a DMG and very lame excuse for a MM all in one book. I'm not a poor college kid who thinks $50 for hundreds of hours of...

Except it's not. There are lots of classes that can fight. This is pretty much a requirement if you're not going to win the game forever with spells.