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I'd try to make it more of a general fantasy rpg, and try to create spinoff versions of it for tie-ins to popular fantasy properties that do have value. Regardless of if you're watching the Hobbit movies, Game of Thrones, Twilight, The Walking Dead, or Harry Potter, you're already halfway to...

Same system. CoC d20 isn't that different from D&D. Not under your "consequences" mantra above. I like that you can choose to play a completely noncombatant character, I just think it requires some more active thought to play a game where this is the case. The kind of thought I want people doing...

To some people, there's another kind of niche protection; the niche that D&D occupies as being distinct from other rpgs. I don't believe much in that one either. To me, when I'm running CoC or Cortex (generally my non-D&D choices) or when I'm experimenting with something else, that's still...

That's a legitimate end, but I don't see why classes are necessary to achieve it. There is a certain wish fulfillment aspect of D&D; it's not out of line to want to play larger than life characters. But okay, you do sometimes have to make choices. However, I think some versions of D&D's class...

In defense of 3e, not all the art is as aesthetically inappropriate as that Hennet pic. There are good pieces and bad pieces. However, to me, both 4e, and to a somewhat lesser extent PF, both have taken turns for the worse in their art. I agree with a lot of the points above; oversized weapons...

That's a circular argument. (Is there a monster for that?) Any number of "sacred cows" have been killed. Classes are not unkillable. The wisdom of doing so would be debatable, but classless D&D would be exactly that: classless D&D. That's what rules do, period. The question is whether the game...

I've seen a sprinkling of nice small-niche things that never took off or were never intended to, but I've not seen much. Certainly not for people who aren't willing to leave the D&D umbrella, which is a lot of people.

Simple: a lot of people feel the need to buy gaming products on a regular basis, and PF has produced the best gaming products on the market since its inception. Just because they're not perfect or even if they're flawed in some significant ways doesn't mean they're not the best. It's been a...

Makes sense. Not my area of expertise, obviously. You're right that it doesn't really change my underlying point though. 2e definitely feels a lot less niche protected than the '70's books hiding in my friend's parents' attic.

I find that reading rulebooks for exact text is impractical during play, but eminently practical during prep. I end up doing most of my worldbuilding and formal prep in the form of meticulously researched NPC stats and magic items. A lot of the history of my world is embedded in flavor text for...

Less so than 3e as I mentioned, but we do have a number of those hybrid classes (rangers and bards getting some thief skills, those classes plus paladins getting some spells) as well as kits that sometimes radically changed a class to something outside its traditional role. Both of which are...

Might be that the PF bard is one of those problems that need fixing though. My solution revolved around: *Rewriting bardic music to remove use limitations and change various other parameters. *Adding abilities that allow more combined actions (of attacks, music, and spells) *Adding bonus feats

Isn't that like being the fattest kid at fat camp?

I don't know why anything needs to be. If there's one thing the 3e warlock taught us, it's that resource management is vastly overrated. If you just took every use-limited ability in PF and removed the limitations, I think the only ones where it would really make a difference are the...

Very nicely, I imagine. Not that it would change anything fundamental. Barbarians run out of hp; clerics can increase their staying power by healing them. Barbarians get tired; clerics can enhance their staying power by rejuvenating them. Same thing. But what impact would that really have on...

Fatigue requires 8 hours of rest to recover from; I would remove the barbarian exception to this rule. With the existing rules, that would indicate that you have from one to four rages within a realistic day of adventuring, depending on how fatigued you're willing to get. I would then make...

PF still has the fatigued condition. If you rage. You're fatigued. You remove the fatigue penalties by resting like everyone else. If you do it again while still fatigued, you're exhausted. If you do it again, you pass out. Simple. I don't see it that either. If I wanted something powered by...

I would say that any healing that doesn't take place over days of rest (and possibly some that does) is magical, including the rare cases in various 3e and PF sources where it is presented as alchemical or extraordinary. Given some kind of alternate health system that separates things that are...

Rage, while no longer uses per day, is still time per day, rather than something fatigue-based. Rage powers, beyond the rather ominous name, also house some dubious content (not just that regeneration thing) and are needlessly complicated. To me, playing a barbarian should feel like you're...

That's one possible reason, and the one that was initially raised, in a ludicrously incoherent argument, by someone else. And indeed this is one of my points here in this thread. Different versions of D&D treat niches differently. 2e breaks them to some extent, 3e more so, 3.5 more so, and PF...