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Most ideas from any thread should be open to all classes. There is rarely any compelling reason to restrict them.

I would think the most obvious thing would be death. If you're not going to change hit points, at least give us a way around them. Small area damage for sweeping weapon attacks is another interesting possibility.

Have you ever read any of the dozens (and probably hundreds) of polls and threads here on topics here about what type of ability score generation or treasure allocation people are using? No? Anything in poll form usually bell curves around something above the "default". Read them and get back to...

The issue here is the process, not the result. If everyone agrees to play the same class, but they talk back and forth about their characters, it's still collaborative. If people build characters without having met each other and coincidentally come in with the four-archetype classic party, it's...

I've run several, including well into epic. What happens is not really all that different from what happened in 2e; magic becomes awe-inspiring and useless at the same time. All the powerful spells are there to be had, but there are so many reasons why they don't work that it ends up being not...

The best part is that you've got more design space and more detail in an important yet neglected part of the rules. It probably would solve a lot of debates though, simply by making it clearer as to what each number corresponds to in the character's world. It still doesn't work for vitality...

Anything might break the game. Or to be more clear, anything with any meaningful benefit has a very real chance of breaking the game, if you define breaking the game narrowly.

That looks pretty convincing. Hard to understand why someone would do that with half the world watching. Italy certainly has a right to be aggrieved.

Wasn't entirely clear to me what happened from the replays they showed, but it sure looks sketchy to reach one's head towards someone like that. Shouldn't be any leniency if there is evidence he did it though.

I don't know if it's a question of noticing. After all, as people get more experienced with a system, they'll begin to understand whatever flaws it has, and either accept them or develop workarounds for them. A significant part of that process probably isn't even conscious, it's just the natural...

Bandwagon fanship isn't a terribly difficult phenomenon to understand. It happens with every major sporting event. People are social animals. When all the people that are actual fans become impassioned about something at the same time, the people that aren't naturally have an inclination to join...

That's one thing that always drives me nuts. It's not that hard to do standard, rhythmic progressions; why they feel the need to either avoid patterns or keep the patterns opaque is beyond me. It's been an issue with spell charts for a long time, among other things.

They still have a good chance to get through, but how many defenders do you need to have on the field before one of them covers the guy streaking towards the goal with thirty seconds left in the game?

Arms & equipment guide is a good source for intoxicating beverages. How that interacts with drunken maser is for you to make up.

That might be the reason, but it really doesn't hold. The same thing happened in recent world cups with France and Italy. It's a wide open tournament whose results fluctuate quite a bit. And with four years between tournaments, that's a lot of time for fortunes to change and players to age...

I don't know why people are acting like it's such a surprise. They never had any defense; it was always clear that if their opponents ever got the ball across the halfway line they could score easily. And their best players are all aging and don't have the athleticism to compete, especially not...

I always say I feel old because I remember before there was an internet.

I'm not feeling 5e. The thing that most interests me is the active homebrewing work I've been doing. I've been fleshing out my adaptation of GR's Psychic's Handbook for the modern 3.X age, and it is getting pretty presentable and to where it's starting to look like a complete and robust...

There are a variety of sample NPCs in the DMG and DMGII, including many from NPC classes that are supposed to be garden-variety schmucks. There is nothing in the SRD on this. Humans advance only by class, and there are no examples of classed humans in the MM, unlike the other common races.

I've found it's quite easy to design a campaign even when you don't know that. But for some people, standardization of these things seems to be important.