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I agree that the OGL was an impressive achievement and a great gift. But the issue it has is: a) The game is stuck in its evolution b) No really money behind it to make it greater than it is. Profits = company support, professional presentation and stronger development of the game engine. 3.x...

Jeff brings up the point I was refering to, he says it much clearer though. The solutions I've seen suggested for this thing is a) caster level = character level or b) have a caster level BAB in every class. Fighters, Barbarians etc are +1 every other level. Paladins and Bards are +3/4 every...

I think removing the need for DM's approval as much as possible takes away punishing creative players. It also makes less work for a DM. A DM should only have to worry about the concept, backstory and goals of the character, not the mechanics so much. Likewise, I think character optimization...

Well, the main issues are this: 1. Caster levels not stacking making spell caster spells weaker and weaker as the character levels. 2. Dipping into a class for 1 or 2 levels to create broken combos. 3. Different results coming from the order you take two different classes in. For example...

Simple enough idea, what are some various balanced ideas to fix multiclassing in 3.x D&D? The simplicity is there in the take a level in another class, but how would you really make it work? If you built 3.x multi classing from the ground up, how would you do it?

I am an optimist too and I am sure there are some very good people working at WOTC who want this to work. Clark, your actions through all this (with your honesty and releasing Ari's manuscript back to him) are admirable and I think you are a great person with good values. It is awesome the role...

The movie Big Trouble in Little China had a good cinematic battle of wills, FWIIW.

You can't ignore that 70% of the poll takers are dissapointed with WOTC. Even give or take a certain percentage of votes to account for any flukes, it still is a sick amount of us percentage wise. I love 4e, and I was really enthusiastic about the GSL, at first I thought Paizo was jumping the...

One a third note, I still like to hear from someone at WOTC about the intent of the GSL and the goals they are working towards with the 3pp. Something to give us an idea would be nice. I know they don't want to say anything official or give any timelines (although considering how long they have...

I like to add a couple of general comments. Although technically WOTC is not obligated to do a OGL or GSL for 4e, there is a key element harmed by them not having on. That is trust and respect for the 3pp. WOTC has spoken about there wanting to involve them, and that they were going to...

I think the positive effect for WOTC the OGL had was getting everyone playing D&D 3.x or a version of its rules. Before 3.x other systems like White Wolf, Palladium, Hero, Gurps and WEG d6 all were doing decent. Then when 3.0 came out, this shift occured and over the years everyone migrated to...

Upon rereading my statement about glorified DMs, it is not coming off the way I intended it. It wasn't meant as an attack. My intention was that businesses in this industry are doing it because they love the industry more than their trying to get rich. I think that many of the great companies...

First Paizo, now Clark and Necromancer Games. Neither is doing the GSL. This is a shame as both companies brought alot to the D&D game and I don't think they made a negative impact on WOTC's bottomline. The 3pp sell a 10th to a 50th of WOTC sells in volumn, and most of the purchasers of the 3.x...

A casual gamer doesn't devote the same amount of time, energy or money into the hobby that a hardcore gamer does. If you played D&D for multiple editions, if you know the rules inside and out, if you play more weeks than not or in mulitple games each week, you are not a causal gamer. The casual...

I think it is possible with 4e to actually do a bit more in the realm of putting into a class what you want it to have. If you want heavy armor on an arcane defender type class, then just find other ways to balance the character. for example: 1. The offensive capability of the class could be...

I've been knocking some stuff around too. Let's narrow our focus on to the ghost template and then build outward from there. So, the ghost template needs to be made as easy to use as possible without losing the interesting elements of ghost characters. Here is my attempt at it, tell me what you...

Your ideas capture the feel of the 3.5 ghostwalk rules, but I have a couple of concerns that could arise about them: 1. Having to take a feat to access ghost powers and feats seems counter to the campaign setting. Characters die and then while dead can choose those feats and powers. The feat...

I was rereading ghostwalk last night after I posted my last reply. So ghosts work this way: 1) 10 minutes after you die, you reapper in the ethereal plane with your appearance based on how you died and what you were wearing. 2) You then can choose to stay in the ethereal or become incorpreal...

Ok, the first things to tackle seems to be how characters level as ghosts, get ghost powers and feats, then experience the calling and the life ephipany. Issue #1: multiclassing rules worked for 3.x ghostwalk, doesn't work for 4.0. Issue #2: can't compare ghost levels with class levels as...

So when ghosts died are they permamently destroyed or they go to the true afterlife? How was the game balance when characters would be fighting, die, and the keep fighting as ghosts? What is the transition between death and ghost handled like?