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Err, without mechanical support, it is literally impossible for a class to be a "Leader" in the sense it is being used in this thread. We're talking about the Leader role, not a leader using the more common meaning of the word. A class can't be a Leader unless it has healing and support...

The difference here is that real world scientists are real people who have actually done something to deserve the respect, and that the use of their names is done to avoid confusion. D&D wizards are not real, not even in the context of the history of most published campaign settings, and their...

I think it's a bit silly to say that healing surges are not a healing mechanic, when 95% of all healing in 4E is "you my spend a healing surge," "your ally may spend a healing surge," or "you heal your ally as if they spent a healing surge." Healing surges are THE healing mechanic, and...

This is the argument that will never die, no matter how many times you try to kill it. Please, just let it die... Even if it will come back from the dead in a few weeks, at least we will have peace... Also, since no once can agree on anything better than Warlord, it will have to do.

I'd prefer healing surges, actually, even if many here are averse to the idea.

Are you kidding? That's the best book ever printed for 3E, and the only reason I might even consider ever playing another 3E game. It's also the number one reason I don't want to play Pathfinder. Why play a version of 3E that doesn't have the Tome of Battle?!

You bold 34 years like it's supposed to mean something. It doesn't. Who cares if a mechanic is older than I am if the mechanic is still widely hated? You say that it is popular, but I've never seen any sign of that. The public polls that WotC held indicated the exact opposite, and I've never...

All I can say is that I'm glad they gave so much room for writing comments, because I really needed it in order to talk about how much I didn't like the classic spell list. I wouldn't complain if the spell list was completely rewritten from the ground up. This list was way too focused on the...

I wouldn't mind seeing a non-Vancian Bard, and the warlord certainly needs to return. New classes are also good. Of course, the poll is forgetting the very interesting Shaman, so I'm also using my "else" vote to support that one.

First off, I'll say that I'm probably one of the most spoiler-averse people you will ever meet. I despise knowing the endings to books or shows or whatever. I despise even knowing what happens in the first episodes of a show before watching it. I prefer to go into stories as blind as possible...

I can't really get behind this kind of petition. I want to see a new edition. I want there to be a 5E. I just want a new 5E to bring more innovation and change to the game, and try to be something better than what came before. My problem with 5E is that it seems to be failing to do that, not the...

I'm a bit too tired right now to really sort out the minor philosophical differences, but... As long as the conversation takes place, and the DM and the players are on the same page about whether the game is going to be "stop the apocalypse" or something else, it's all good. Talking things over...

You know, later 3E stuff was a lot better balanced than early 3E stuff, by a pretty huge margin. Both the weakest 3E classes and the strongest 3E classes are almost entirely found in the PHB. The fighter and monk were incredibly weak and the full casters were incredibly strong. Later classes...

If a DM tried to pull that kind of thing on me I'd walk away from the table and never play a game with him ever again... Seriously, something like "the world will explode in 5 years" needs to be laid out on the table explicitly from the beginning, before the game even starts. Keeping the...

I won't speak for LostSoul, but I agree with him on player empowerment and agency, so I'll say my own feelings on the matter. Player agency is pretty much the one reason I have to play D&D. It's the one thing that the tabletop RPG genre offers that no other game does quite as well, except pure...

Answered both "mechanics to discourage" and "other". What really needs to be done is to change the entire framework of the game so that it simply isn't a problem. If you simply remove the possibility of going nova and being unable to progress, then there is nothing to worry about. That requires...

I'd argue that all of your analysis indicates that we should continue protesting C. 3E Wizards really do mess up the possibility of letting everyone shine in a game where players work together as a team of equals. Some things just can't be balanced, and the 3E Wizard is a square peg that won't...

I'm not sure if I'd want a "warrior", since that was the weaker-than-fighter NPC class in 3E, and we have enough "war-" classes anyways. ;) Of course, I've been arguing in various threads since these boards were created that they should just dismantle the Fighter into 3 or more other classes...

There's so much wrong with this... First off, I never claimed to speak for the fanbase. I did, however, speak for myself and several other people in this thread who have shared very similar opinions to my own. In fact, that's the point. It's entirely irrelevant whether or not an opinion is the...

I'm going to drop the first part of your response since that debate has been going on just fine without me while I wasn't paying attention. This part, though, really needs to be addressed much more than it has been. Honestly, I'm amazed you are actually making the claim that the desire of fans...