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The 3rd Edition variants' free damage scaling for each spell slot was quite a big insult for the poor martials, especially since their own damage scaling was hampered by the not so realistic multi attack penalty and sticky 5 feet syndrome... (one bigger insult I remember is that thrice cursed...

Great that he managed to get a new job! By the way, the AGE system is (unfortunately) not a legally free rule in any form (as in OGL or CC), right?

Maybe merging all "non-spellcasters" (read: Fighter + Rogue) in a single class with all their features intact is a suitable answer... And give them an improved version of the old skill percentage roll as this: You roll d% only after you failed the initial d20 check to turn it into a success...

At least in 1E's DMG, Gygax outright stated with brutal honesty that Wizards do grow into the most powerful class in the game. No lies that all class archetypes are equal, unlike 3.X, where the CR system claimed that all level X classed characters are equally threatening as opponents (snort)...

Personally, I think PF2 will never become a second 4E (commercially-wise) because of one reason; its crunch is completely OGL compliant (except Product Identity, of course). As both 5E and PF2 gave up on my preferred level of granuality for Simulationist play (such as unequal Prof. bonus...

I genuinely wonder if this Borges character is the reason why D&D's Lamia population ended up with the unconventional lion halves instead of snake ones. Not to mention those unheard-of bovine Gorgons separate from Medusa"e".

First, prepared casters in general can change their entire spellcasting capability every single day, which is an insanely strong capability by itself. And in case of Wizards they can choose from 44 spells at the very least from their level-up, not even mentioning Clerics and Druids. A single...

I personally think that prepared casters should've had "half level + casting mod" spells prepped per day, and spontaneous ones all have at least their level number of spells known for its level (at the very least, much more than what they know as of now)...

As the concept is solid, a smattering of erratas will hopefully fix it to work as intended...

Like others mentioned above, blame D&D for all these unsound re-imaginations of RL folklore figures. Such as the Lamia; what on earth had them end up with the lower half of a lion, not a proper snake?! :mad: Edit: Well there's the Matriarch, I know, but I'd rather have them unified as a single...

Oh, I was late on the response, sorry. Yes, so there are Yuan-ti with upper human-esque torso, I get it. Shame that they are Product Identity, though (I have a very hard time mentally trying to work with non-legal free races despite their rich lore and admirable quirks). Actually, my first...

I can't find a more elegant solution than this ability in 4E that best emulates the modern RPG concept of "Tank" character, so I would like suggestions on how to achieve this. Is it actually viable when ported word to word as a 1st level frontliner class' shared ability? Or better yet, is it...

My responses to the few posts right before in general; ---- 1) I rather prefer Combat as War to Combat as Sport, in a class based game, provided that, if every class at least has some feature/option built in to access the playstyle if willing. Traditionally in D&D derivatives, only...

WAR is my favorite Western artist due to the angular, "crispy" feel I sense from his works. That said, why are there only upper-torso snake people and not lower torso ones in D&D-esque works? (And no, neither the Marilith nor the Lamia Matriarch does not count, since their body types are...

Good that I decided to buy the PDFs only for now (which was of gloomy RL reasons that turned out all right because of this). Now I can wait for all the major glaring errors fixed in my future paper book... By the way, I'm still traumatized that my 5th printing CRB's Monk became obsolete when...

Figuratively: Because I'm a "simulationist+gamist" type of player (whatever that means), opposed to a "narrativist" one (I don't play to make a story; the records of my character and their pals' actions is the story in question, not the other way around). To make a video game metaphor, rolling...

If no content, at least WotC updated the SRD to include the late 2018 major Errata... ...right?

Ah, on that case, my definition of "simulationism" might be different somewhat from yours. For example, as long as the basic math rules function and scale the same for everyone who is a piece in the board, it clearly counts as my definition of sim, even if it has problems like the muscle mass...

That's good, I actually once planned to do the exact same thing. ...With the caveat that while the number of SRD-compatible monsters with "wrong" Proficiency are staggering alone, there is also Spells and Class Features that deal with that detestable floating value known as CR (such as the...

For the first three questions: Yes, to all three, with passion. Now, the answer to the fourth and final one is quite longer. Why I feel disappointed in the "truncation" of NPC stats is, because it wrecks my feeling of verisimilitude in-universe severely; no wonder if I add that my personal...