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Mazlo, Assuming that "balance" is something that can or should be sought, and assuming that there's a meaningful distinction between "core" and "non-core", the question is: Does WotC create new supplements with the goal to balance them against only Core classes? Or does WotC create new...

Bear in mind also that the comparison earlier in the thread was "Fighter using only PHB" vs. "Additional class using all the mechanics in the PHB and a whole book devoted to adding stuff to that class." If you include stuff from the Complete series, the Fighter looks better (better than he did...

I've done the "pick your own ability scores" thing, and it's always worked out fine for me. My players have never tried to abuse it, though I go for powerful characters anyway (my thought: they're heroes, after all). I want them to be able to do what they want with their characters, and...

genshou, Oh, I don't want to come across as someone who's opposed to "video-gamey" playstyles! Or any playstyles, for that matter. I'm currently playing in an incredibly "video-gamey" FR campaign, and having a ball with it. I -- personally -- just dig a slightly different style of campaign...

I put "Other", because I think worlds without metaplots are perfectly acceptable, but why not? Sometimes the metaplot defines the campaign setting. If you like that particular metaplot, play the campaign setting. I don't think all campaign settings should have or should not have metaplots --...

rounser, I understand the function of the discrete environments in Eberron -- in a sense you re-stated what I wrote: they actually did make "a forest region" and "a swamp region" and "an orc region", &c. But the environment regions are identical to the political ones, in large part. It just...

Eberron has a ton of very clever ideas that I really like (and will happily steal and put into my Greyhawk campaigns). They really went out and came up with new ideas, breaking from the Tolkien/Earth history tradition, and I think that's to be lauded. I feel though, to a certain extent, it's a...

Well, I'd obviously have to worship some god that granted the Planning and Undeath domains, so I'd be halfway to Divine Metamagic: Persistent just from bonus feats, and then . . . just kidding. I'm surprised no one has said it, but Rao from the Greyhawk pantheon. Peace and Diplomacy. I'm Cleo!

Moogle, Thanks for the welcome. :) On re-reading, I guess my post wasn't that clear. I meant to imply that the original poster was just dressing up the traditional, hackneyed, dead-as-a-doornail, and-fallacious-anyway "role-players are superior to roll-players" argument in "complicated...

Ranger REG hit the nail on the head. Of course the rulebooks are obsessed with combat and wargaming stuff -- it's the only stuff for which rules help. The improvisational role-playing is just acting, essentially. I've played in campaigns in which there was only one combat in a day's worth of...

The OP's obvious original intent was not actually to criticize people for playing complicated character types, but for playing characters as little more than the numbers on the page. I see this as linked with the concerns that some "old-timers" have expressed on the other "do we have too many...