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I'm pretty mixed on this proposition. On the one hand, I can't disagree that a Paladin could be done as a MC Fighter/Cleric (or the Eldritch Knight as a Fighter/Wizard). On the other, certain concepts seem like they shouldn't warrant a MC. Many of those are the ones with a D&D tradition (I find...

Or... Just a "berserker" sub-class for Fighter. I never said having a rager was silly, just coupling being angry with summoning animal spirits -- unless you're going for Captain Planet or Werewolf: the Apocalypse, which could both be considered "silly", as well.

With the 5E backgrounds, I think you could easily just roll Ranger into a woodsy background + Fighter class. I'd miss some of the "spec ops" bits, but not so much I'd have an internet rage quit over it. The Paladin could really just be a divine flavored Eldritch Knight knock-off. I see no...

I still just call it "bloodied". There aren't any in-game effects, but it's a handy term.

I voted for Artificer, Alchemist, and Mystic. Pretty much everything else I think is, at best, a sub-class of something else. Many of them don't even need that much and are already fully covered. Honestly, I think Alchemist should be one of the sub-classes of Artificer, but it was listed and...

That jumped out at me, as well. IIRC, the 1E PHB actually said elves were often seen as "flighty and frivolous" to members of other races.

That jumped out at me, as well. IIRC, the 1E PHB actually said elves were often seen as "flighty and frivolous" to members of other races.

Voted "Hate", but he's really only marginally worse than anything else the Realms have introduced. Really, I do not understand how anyone can make it through any of the novels.

It actually depends on the target number. It's been a while since I ran the numbers, so I may be a bit off but the gist is that advantage gets better as the target number approaches 11 and worse as it approaches either end of the spectrum. Why? Just because of the way odds multiply. At a target...

Great advice. I went back with the idea that a sorcerer (favored soul) is infused with magic and really shouldn't have a dedicated skill. I like it. As long as you're handing out advice, care to proof my conversion notes? It's a conversion of a 5th level Aasimar Favored Soul. Since the excuse...

Here's where I'm afraid I'm doing things "wrong". I don't want to just recreate D&D in Fate. If I do that, I may as well just keep playing D&D. I definitely want to keep using D&D for inspiration. I just don't want to be saddled by it. Maybe I just need to accept that D&D casters are crazy and...

I haven't read the original Dresden Files rules, but my understanding is that it was practically impossible to play wizards and straights in the same group. I have DFA, though, and it seems playable. I think Fate Accelerated is easier to do magic in than Core because Accelerated is considerably...

So... I absolutely love the look of Fate. I ran a FAE one-shot and enjoyed it, even as I look back and see where I botched somethings. I'd love, love, love to switch to Fate Core. Here's my biggest problem: Magic. It's a big system and I've yet to see anything for Fate that really floats my...

Fate. Aspects as permission.

I absolutely love Eberron. It's the only published setting that I'm actively interested in running. Greyhawk made a great "fallback" for one-shots or when I didn't want baggage from my own home brew. Ravenloft was wonderful for looting, because I've always loved Gothic horror elements and...

Well, I guess it depends on your group. If someone in my group has to run his kid to the hospital, I'm definitely not going to see that as a reason for him to not advance at the same time as the other PCs. It's also not a unilateral decision on "a reason I don't like". It's the group's social...

It's punitive to withhold XP from the player whose wife is at home vomiting or who got sucked into mandatory overtime, this week. There's no fun in being forced to miss your recreational activity and to then be penalized by your friends for missing it, as well. If you've got players that don't...

This, I could agree with. The one I thought about was the Khoravar of Eberron, who form a distinct race -- though humans and elves will occasionally still get down to making first-gen half-elves. The setting is significantly more cosmopolitan, and it would make sense that true-breeding...

As near as I can tell, it was an attempt to give the race a "niche" in 3.5 (IIRC). The vague justification is that the half elf generally takes the more appealing features of both parents. Considering the in game fluff is, and always has been, that half-elves are subject to prejudice from both...

Dude, I'm just here for the popcorn and to debate the mechanical implications of removing racial packages from the game.