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Have you seen the Alchemist written by Rich Howard and published Tribality Press? It is not what I was looking for in an alchemist class as I did not want a spellcaster, but it is a spell casting class similar to what you you describe wanting. The subclasses are Artificer, Herbwarden, Irezumi...

Ars Magica also used the term Ease Factor. From Redcap.org, " In Ars Magica, the Ease Factor is the minimum number a player has to roll (after modifiers) in order for a character to succeed at a task".

While doing a search to confirm that DCs in Ars Magica were called Ease Factor, I just saw a 2013 post in which a poster wrote that he asked Monte Cook at a convention about the origin of DCs in D&D and Monte confirmed that it came from Jonathan Tweet.

Regarding DCs in other games, let us not forget that Jonathan Tweet was an original designer for Ars Magica which used d10+ability+skill vs DC (called Ease Factor?) as a resolution mechanic and that he became the lead for 3.0 after being brought in by Peter Adkison to replace him on the design team.

This lines up with what Tweet or Reynolds stated in Dragon Magazine about the original DCs in 3.0. The DCs were based on the what the designers referred to as the "Commoner Standard" (or was it "Common Standard") which was how difficult a task is for a common human with no training or (edit...

First level subclases would also allow for variations within a class for Armor Proficiency, Weapon Proficiencies, Hit Die, starting skills (number and list), save proficiencies based upon the archetype/theme for the subclass.

Move Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins to the M:TG team and put Steve Kenson in charge of 5eR.

I agree. edit: I like the Keaton Batman movies, but I never bought him, physically, as Bruce Wayne. The same goes for Pattinson. However, they tie for my second choice. As for Adam West, I never liked the tv show, but I will take him over Clooney and Kilmer as the latter two are at the bottom...

For starters Subclasses at 1st level for all classes New Classes Alchemist: split from Artificer Courtier: a non-magical social expert class Scholar: a non-magical knowledge expert class Shaman: a charisma primal caster Warlord Witch: a wisdom arcane caster Existing classes Artificer: as...

I like Savage Worlds and have heard great things about the licensed Savage Pathfinder

I would love D&D in the hands of one of the following. 1. Green Ronin if they put Steve Kenson in charge. I liked GR's 3e D&D stuff- especially, the stuff Steve wrote. 2. Pinnacle Entertainment Group for a change in mechanics: I would love to see Dark Sun, Ravenloft, and Greyhawk using Savage...

It is interesting. However, not my style as a DM.

Human Fighter Rogue

I just bookmarked all of Mike's Happy Hours which I thought were lost forever. I am going to go through them-especially, the first few months to find class design issues that were brought up (e.g. the Bard should have had its subclass at first level under the guidelines eventually put in place)...

The ads are still appearing in the same places as yesterday in my Chrome browser.

I just had the same reaction upon reading this thread.

where as I am one of those people that looks to third party content, because I don't like the supplements WOTC puts out.

I don't know. However, since Mearls is back on the forums, perhaps he can come by and answer the question if someone casts Summon @mearls.

My only major complaint is that I want a Paladin's classs spell list removed and each subclass to receive a unique spell list entirely based upon the theme of the subclass's oath.

I don't see myself buying D&D 2024, because I haven't seen much of anything that has impressed me with the playtest (just as I have not seen anything from WOTC after the core books that made me want to continue buying WOTC products for D&D 2014). On the other hand, there have been several 5e...