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Not my call to define a term for the community; I don't really have a clear one that jumps to mind for my own perspective. Not the path of least resistance, but I've seen it happen when someone really splurges on defensive items and throws a Diplacement or something on top of it. More likely a...

One simple solution would just be to keep advancing and require everyone to multiclass. That would cause a number of problems, both mathematically and conceptually, but it's possible.

I can't remember the last time I saw that happen in a game. I throw them in to treasure every now and then, but they sell them right off. Wands are not unheard of with clerics and other divine characters, not just CLW but also occasionally higher level healing spells and LR. Those are the...

Sometimes I think going without a healer is sort of like going for it on fourth and short in football. All the numbers suggest that it's more likely to lead to a good outcome than punting, but coaches (at least at the pro level) simply aren't willing to take even this eminently justifiable risk...

A wizard with bracers of armor, an amulet of natural armor, and a ring of protection is getting sort of fighter-y with all that AC there. A Con item makes him seem more so. Part of the wizard archetype is frailty, part of the warrior archetype is toughness. Casters use magic items to move from...

Seems to me that trying to run an all-wizard party might require a lot of fudging to not just kill them immediately.

Yes, but of course that's just obviously wrong. A wizard without items is equally useless. Even if one makes allowances for a spell book and components, wizards are completely dependent on certain magic items, just for different reasons (in PF, this would be the might Int item, a resistance...

They are real. And if you were an race that only learned about the world through watching US network television, you would not know that the human female has nipples. Pay cable is teaching us something important!

Yep. Little to nothing out there.

Very, to some people. Recall that an objection over Use Magic Device started this line of thought. I think there's a lot of overlap between the terms "core, defining element of D&D" and "sacred cow". And of course it's been present in some form, but has changed radically throughout the...

Yes. Hypothetically, though. That wasn't even what pickin_grinnin said.

I take it you also think that the reason characters die of starvation is that they enjoy eating so much that when they can't eat they lose their morale and waste away in a sea of sadness? I mean, I know the rules don't require you get Vitamin C in your diet or suffer scurvy penalties, but I...

Didn't rangers get Hide and Move Silently in 2e? And wasn't favored enemy much more limited than in 3e? I remember the 2e ranger for its combat prowess, occasional healing, and the fact that you could multiclass it with cleric for some reason. That it did.

Yes, unless that power source is oxidative phosphorylation.

I'm on board with Starfox. I'm not even sure that favored enemy would constitute a "significant" ability in the way I meant when I wrote the poll. To me, a ranger is a mishmash of classes that does not have a distinct niche; its martial prowess, skills, and even limited spellcasting are more...

It can, but then again, it doesn't have to be a problem. If a 15th level wizard gets in a barroom brawl, to me he either needs to start casting spells or get beat up. I don't see any reason why he needs the same BAB as a 7th level fighter.

That's not the important bit. The important bit is that they don't need those things as they are already just as competent/effective/fun/awesome without them, if not more so. Spells (or powers, or maneuvers, or whatever you want to call them) are a punishment, not a reward. The nice thing is...

Because it's not D&D. And of course it has its own issues. To be strict, I'd say that a classless D&D would be better. A better D&D wouldn't have to be classless. I haven't ditched them from my game yet, after all. I just think they're more sacred cows then pillars of roleplaying. Not that...

If you're not DMing, it's pretty hard to be sure that it isn't. Then again, I'm sure some people do it that way. That being said, there are plenty of other ways that the rules get fudged besides simply juking the dice rolls. I think it's fair to say that almost everyone's game experience...

I don't get the impression that WotC is interested in marketing to-or is run by-adults. It is a shame. There are certainly untapped demographics out there.