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Oops, I forgot to comment on this point. Actually, in this one area, I agree with you. Classes can (and should) be better at different things, and a game that handles balance properly should factor this in. Otherwise, you get cookie cutter class design that does not sustain interest. I've always...

But, according to your own analogy, there is never any point at which the cars are going the same speed = never any level at which the classes are actually balanced. Unless you are talking about the hypothetical end of the race (which, in this context, makes very little sense, since the "race"...

Hmmm.... Seems to me that you're kind of disproving your own point. The averaging idea is implicit in your own statement, i.e. you are effectively saying that, on the average, "being weak at lower levels balances out with the great power they get at upper levels" (your words, not mine). Read...

Sorry about the wall of text, in that last post, but my browser suddenly decided that it doesn't want to get along with EnWorld's forums, any more (vis-a-vis line breaks). Will try to fix it...

I've been studying the artificer more closely and, frankly, I'm a little baffled as to its mostly favorable reception. And even more baffled that a few people think it is too tough. Personally, I think it's kind of unfocused, far less interesting than other alchemist-type classes I have seen...

I can't speak for others, but I think my previous post went into rather-longer-than-absolutely-necessary detail about my concerns (and, for all its wordiness, it did not even touch on a few problems that other people have brought up). If you are now implying that, to give good constructive...

Can't agree with you about PotC. (Barbossa: "Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead." If that isn't the very definition of undead, I don't know what is. The curse may be the source of the problem, but it...

If by "playtest" you mean, "take the bare kernel of an idea that Mike tossed out, without much forethought, and re-work it completely, from the ground up, until it barely resembles its origin, knowing full well that it is vanishingly unlikely that the so-called playested material will ever...

Yes, they are in previous versions. And 5th (look it up: Monster Manual, page 259). And other games that have undead. And folklore. And movies. And television. And books. And comics (Crow, anyone?). And... You get the idea. The bottom line is that most people with even the tiniest bit...