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Directly comparing the two actions, one a fighter or rogue character picking up a wand and using it on himself, and two a fighter or rogue using a healing surge, the healing surge is a greater departure from the class's role and abilities, mechanically more similar to the resource management...

Using a wand or scroll with UMD isn't casting a spell either; it's using resources that are part of the rogue class (or, increasingly in PF, of any character, as you've noted). What exactly is your point?

But you've had one cast a cure spell (healing surge) on himself, yes? And use a smite attack? And perhaps other magical things, ranging from teleportation to mind control? I believe my point is that they aren't just doing martial stuff. Taking the old-school wands and potions of CLW and...

But you've had one cast a cure spell (healing surge) on himself, yes? And use a smite attack? And perhaps other magical things, ranging from teleportation to mind control?

Even if one changes the group makeup more, though, would a party of all clerics be better than the balanced party? Two clerics and two wizards? Not a chance in my mind.

I suspect that the group with all four classes covered would have the easiest time, followed by the group with the extra rogue, followed by the group with the extra cleric or wizard. Not necessarily, since balanced does not mean the same. For one thing, covering different functions is inherently...

Well, PF is 3e. Maybe not. 2e has roughly the same Christmas Tree phenomenon, but maybe it doesn't go back forever and ever. Of course it does, to a previously unheard of extent. Power sources, healing surges, and inherent bonuses are all examples of non-casters being made into casters, just in...

Pretty big if. Guess that's what happens when you learn something. And yet, often the only way. But so what? All things being equal, a rogue does more damage, has more hit points, is stealthier, more perceptive, has better AC and saves, is more persuasive, and has the whole traps things going...

They didn't move forward with the OGL.

...and then never moved forward. The 3.5 OGL game effectively replaced 3.0, because it did the same thing, and on the whole was better, and because it was released in the same way. "Moving forward" would constitute another (perhaps more substantial) revision that nonetheless met those criteria...

I think you have PF confused with 4e. A tool user isn't quite the same as a spellcaster. I can see why, but as I said it's one of those "inherent to D&D" kind of things. Would we want a version of Pathfinder to remove the idea of accumulating large amounts of magical treasure that give you...

Yes. Perhaps I was unclear because of that. My professional background is a mix of medicine and psychology, and there may be some unintentional overlap between these posts and discussions in an online bioethics course I'm also frequently posting in. I'm rooting for Tyrion, personally. Surely...

Generally not true; the closest thing to an exceptio would be Knock, but that's a small niche. An invisible wizard is not as generally as stealthy as a hidden rogue for instance, nor is charming someone as beneficial as actually winning them over with a Bluff or Diplo. Conversely, a rogue...

Seems to me that killing things and taking their stuff is embedded into the game. I take it as given that the stuff is mechanically useful. I could definitely see the scope of that utility being changed though. After all if someone in one of these threads wants to talk about how a good save is...

The tastefulness is the problem. She's basically strongly implying statutory rape, but not saying or doing anything overt that could get her in trouble (moreso than her presence there in the first place, anyway). It's not disturbing because it looks obviously bad, it's disturbing because there...

A variety of things; hard to represent without copying a large volume of text. It's a chaos disease that does a variety of alterations (only some of which would be appropriate) and has a decent size % dice table. There's also, separately, some large zombie making machine that kicks out variants...

The closest thing that jumps to my mind is the Warp Touch disease from BoVD. There are a couple of things in that book that go in this direction.

I figure that is the case; I understand that many of the child characters have been aged up for the screen. But for all the talk about Jamie forcing himself on his sister, I find the idea of a grown woman seducing Tommen far more disturbing.

That is true. I don't know that there are any versions of D&D or its offshoots that this is not true of, but certainly there's a case to take the game into a more grounded direction and reduce the rock-paper-scissors dynamic you're talking about.

Exactly. Then it's just a damage vs hp question. Stone has 15 hp per inch of thickness, so if we're talking about a stone wall that is a foot or more thick, it could take a few minutes (though for a really martial character with strength, PF's nerfed PA, and a really nice weapon, dealing over...