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I liked weapon speed factors, weapon vs. armour type modifiers, and the fact that Field/Full Plate offered 1-2 DR per die of damage. Bring all of these features back, please!

Seconded. Janaxstrus is a wise man.

The "Core Four" are good enough; everything else can be represented by the right combinations of themes and backgrounds layered on top. Except maybe the Bard--not sure what to do there. But the Bard is the only possibility of a fifth that I'd allow for.

Not exactly. I see more redundancy between an unarmored divine caster and an unarmored arcane caster than I do between an armored divine warrior/caster and an armored divine caster/warrior. To my eye, there is more to distinguish the Paladin from the Cleric (at least in their traditional...

By "yet another clothy," I really meant "yet another clothy spellcaster." We already have the Wizard; I don't think we need another robe-clad spellcaster. If people are worried about the heavily-armoured Cleric and the Paladin looking too much alike and treading on each other's territory, the...

I think I'd prefer that the classic D&D Cleric be the default, with maybe the ability to turn it into yet another cloth-wearer "priest" with themes, backgrounds, etc.

If the Cleric does not wear heavy armour and wield a mace, it will not be the D&D Cleric. People complain about the Cleric treading on the Paladin's territory, but I see absolutely no need for yet another robe-wearing magic dude, like the hypothetical "priest" class; the Magic-user already...

So do we have Paizo fans or Paizo designers to blame for the over-the-top Asia-philia evident in Ultimate Combat? Who should I blame?

This bears repeating because it cannot be understated. Nostalgia and the appeal of classic D&D tradition and "feel" is a more powerful force than the people who hold the game's traditions in contempt want to admit...

Dragons are for slaying, not for playing. I'm just saying...

For me, if it's not set in a vaguely medieval European-flavored setting, it's not D&D.

To me--and I can't overemphasize that I recognize that this is just my own personal opinion (though I hardly think I'm completely alone in so thinking)--it's everything Doug McCrae said, with the additional requirement of being set in a pseudo-Euro medieval-esque environment.

I'm not making an argument; just stating a preference. To be honest, I think the OP's first post didn't really make much of a coherent argument either--essentially, it amounted to a very long-winded statement of his own preferences. The point is that my notions of "not D&D" aren't any more...

Mostly, it's the art and "feel" of it.

I submit that there is no universally-recognized "forward" direction in RPG design. I don't think the development of RPG mechanics has ever taken place on some sort of easily-measured linear scale. It's all over the place, this huge, chaotic, spidery thing with abominable tentacles reaching...

This guy is correct. To me, that's all there should be to this discussion.

Where do you get the idea that they only fought the English and not among themselves during that period? It sounds like you've been watching too much Braveheart... Did you even read that link? 'Cause the rest of the essay is rather starkly at variance with at least part of the statement you...

LivingHistory.co.uk • View topic - c14th Highland/Isleman Clothing? Scroll down that page a little bit. Those stone tomb effigies are of highland chieftains and nobles. Note that they wear padded armour and mail for the most part. That's the environment in which the claymore evolved, and the...

Exactly. I think many (if not most) zweihänder also have a different, somewhat narrower blade geometry than claymores, making them better-suited to thrusting between plates of armour.

I'm not sure that I buy your argument. Claymores, strictly speaking, were used in the fringes and backwater countries of Europe, where few people would have had up-to-date armour. This is a strong argument for the weapon having evolved in an environment that didn't have to deal that much with...