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I never liked psionics, I would take the opportunity to drop them entirely from official support.

Yes, this is also an option. Let's call it 'Defence'. If you're wielding a weapon it can be used against melee attacks. If you have a shield it can be used against melee, ranged, magical and area attacks. You could even throw in an evasion-like effect, usable against any source of damage, if...

Snide remarks aside, I don't want swords deflecting magic missiles (maybe at high level you can become a Jedi), and I don't want tumbling in full plate either.

Ahem, the ability is called 'Parry' - I would support being able to reduce arrow damage with a shield at 1st level, but it wouldn't be parrying.

Unless you allow.. DOUBLE FIGHTERS.. with all the class features twice!

Probably more appropriate as 'melee attack' with later options to wuxia protect yourself against missiles and magic rays.

The spells vs. other stuff problem is fundamental to the multiclass issue because of the depth of these two features. Access to spell levels is deep, like a feat tree but with 17 stages. Access to +1 to hit is shallow because it does the same thing for everyone, there's no requirement to use...

Neonchameleon You seem to be discussing homogeneity within classes, whereas I believe the poster you responded to is referring to homegeneity between classes.

3E multiclassing is my favourite in principle. In many ways it promised a less class-focused system, where you could just take the classic four, mix and match levels, and you'd have a character that filled the archetype in your head. Prestige classes offered something similar. Mechanically it...

I think this sort of thing would work and create appropriately themed Wizards (rather than the swiss army spellcasters we have had before). Basically, there has never been much of an effort to restrict access to abilities related to skills and physical combat, but there is a huge barrier to...

What we're seeing at the moment is a healthy dose of both 1 and 2. Wizards are quadratic (I'll argue that before they were cubic!). The problem is, gaining a level in a non-spellcasting class gives you perhaps a bit more to-hit, a bit more damage, a special ability. Gaining a spellcasting...

Yes, I think they ought to consider a return to the old-fashioned style of multiclassing. You have both classes, right from the start. Otherwise dipping is inevitable and superior.

... and another thing! Don't mix strongly different mechanics within the same class! That's confusing, wasteful of design space other classes could be using and the class loses its distinctive identity.

Just give Wizards more spells to begin with! As they progress, take away low-level spell slots!

I prefer neither breasts nor udders, because I liked the fluff of Minotaurs being cursed beings rather than a race. I like them to be men with cow heads and a tail though, with some cow hair is fine too.

So, even if the idea of launching two RPGs, side-by-side, aimed at different players, playstyles, whatever, doesn't wash, then consider the recent boardgame activity at WotC. The skirmish game they have created has a lot of potential, and I wonder if people would play a 'D&D Tactics' type game...

I was wondering about the business point of view on this. In many industries, individual companies will offer directly competing products, especially when there are competing companies in the same market. They might aim them at different consumers, however, in order to capture more of the...

I was just reading through the thread about interpretation of rules, which wandered into a discussion of the marketing and reception of different editions. Emerikol provided an interesting description of D&D history in which he posited that Pathfinder was a branching point in the game that has...

Vikingkingq I understand that Fighters are specially trained compared with Barbarians, but in the grand scope of all classes that engage in non-magical combat, there is some significant overlap in the sorts of maneuvers that can be performed. For instance, the current iteration of the Fighter...

No! I really do think Fighters should have nice things. I'm just not confident in the current implementation. I think the dice pool mechanic works fine for one class, but I think it is inelegant if extended to other classes, which it may or may not be. In fact what I really want is a unified...