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I already use similar fluff although the curse/blessing is hereditary. My minotaurs are all male to reflect their creator's misogyny. DL minotaurs should be something else entirely.

Anything that stops the proliferation of classes is a good thing in my book, and if they are going with the "bloodline caster" fluff for the sorcerer (rather than "inner power" or some other ambiguous explanation), it makes a lot of sense for both favored souls and beguilers.

After more than a decade of running Realms-based campaigns, I am quite comfortable with the setting. I don't know every nook and cranny, but at the very least I know which resource to peruse for inspiration. And that's exactly what I want from the Next FRCS: inspiration. I want lore, history...

I still don't get why different sources of power that provide more or less identical effects warrant different classes. Variants, sure (and I have that in Fatebinder). But full classes? Redundant.

I'm not a fan of subraces that are mechanically different.

Scrolls and potions are fine. Wands and rods are the problem.

After some research, I set the price of plate as 5 gp in Fatebinder. Of course, I'm using the silver standard and 1 gp = 100 sp.

This ability was added because Belkar is the sexy shoeless god of war. Also, we'll see a direct reversal of this strip:

Sounds like a wizard I wouldn't want to play, personally. But as long as they make that optional, sure, whatever.

Drizzt was triple-classed the last time I looked at his stats - a Fighter (to reflect his drow noble training) / Barbarian (to reflect the years he spent wandering the Underdark by himself, half-mad) / Ranger (when he became Montolio's disciple). Likewise, Elminster is a...

Any chance of in-hand photos? Paizo's stock photos are generally so small that hardly any detail is visible. I haven't bought any minis in several years, but some of these look nice enough for me to pick up as singles.

Next is far from finished. We have no idea as to what other mechanics they are currently developing. We just learned about Fighting Styles a week ago, and the Combat Superiority (a very novel mechanic) shortly before. In other words, there may be versions of Next rules currently being playtested...

Alright, you have somewhat convinced me to grudgingly accept the Barbarian and Monk as worthwhile archetypes that can stand on their own - but they need A LOT of mechanical work to make them distinguished enough. The Sorcerer and Warlock, OTOH, are just mages who acquire their power in a...

I'll give you a reply as to why I see those 4 classes as essential archetypes and why I chose them for my own revision of the system. Rangers do not rely on formal martial training. Instead, they focus on speed, guerrilla tactics, and the use of the environment to their advantage. While a...

I am not likely to play a homosexual character. Not because I am not comfortable with the concept, but because I dislike the exaggerated stereotype that this character would inevitably become if his sexual orientation were to play a part in the campaign. All RPG characters are parodies and...

FWIW, I don't like spell overlap and have eliminated it completely from my Fatebinder system. There is no spell sharing. Classes may have spells that do similar things, but there are always significant differences that reflect the nature of each class.

8 classes, people, I keep telling you... and they aren't 4 true classes and 4 demi-classes. Traditional D&D has 8 main flavors - diplomatic jack-of-all-trades, divinely-inspired warrior, pious worker of miracles, shapeshifting elementalist, trained martial combat specialist, disciple of arcane...

The first thing D&D Next must do for me to even consider adopting it is to include, in the core rules, a robust skill system. Unfortunately, since the core mechanic seems to be completely dependent on ability scores with skills being nothing more than an afterthought (even more so than in AD&D...

I got my OOTS Kickstarter stuff like a month ago.

The one problem with those abilities being "main" (from my perspective) is that they don't actually let the monk accomplish anything by themselves, they merely aid him in the use of what I see as his primary feature (combat) and his secondary feature (exploration, which is pretty much entirely...