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^ agree. In addition, there have always been aspects of D&D which have required this sort of code-speak. Enhancement bonuses to magic items being the most obvious.

One other factor in more predictable hitpoints is that it also ensures that you can ensure you actually get to play the character you want to. For example, what if you and another player wanted to play a pair of brothers who were fighters - one wanted to be the tough, physical one while the...

I found Pious Templar from CD an oddly good addition - while in many ways it is a "prestige paladin" in that it essentially gives paladin-like powers to another class it does offer the awesome Mettle ability at 1st level. This plus a Ring of Evasion and the paladin's beefy saves gave me almost...

How about using the Spiked Chain mechanics with this principle? They seem to give most of what you are looking for from your OP. While true, the real costs for weapons (masterwork or magical) are flat costs, beyond level one (or chargen even) the costs of mundane weaponry become minor...

Just to pick this up - the shire hobbits did not trust boats and so on, but that's not true for all hobbits. One could argue that there is some influence from Smeagol/Deagol's tribe of hobbits on the 4e ones. It's weak, but not totally without precedence.

We don't know how many rounds each combat is going on for - it's entirely possible that the encounters are running for longer than we expect in 3.5 and so the total number of attack rolls (and hence critical chances) is increased.

True, but an important part of wearing mail is a good strong belt - it can put a decent amount of the weight on your hips.

I may well be wrong, but I was under the impression that monsters were not divided into roles as such, rather that monsters would be represented as kind of templates which could be layered over the basic framework provided by the role. As such, you could have a Balor Brute, a Balor Skirmisher...

Just to nitpick a little, but they did release this conversion document (for the hard-covers at least) - it is (or was) available on the wizards website. For free even. All the changes were also in the SRD, also released for free.

Sunderstone, I'm interested in why you think that the information released so far indicates that the game will become more like an MMO and how the rules will force the DM to run it like it is one. As I see it, the massive advantage that a tabletop game has over an MMO or any other CRPG is...

It allows for easier balancing of encounters and pacing of adventures. With per-encounter balancing you have a good idea ahead of time what the capabilities of a party will be at any point in the future. You can have the numbers of encounters per day dictated by the requirements of the game's...

We can. And it's a role that the Fighter equivilent has always tried to do. In every edition you have tried to protect the softer targets by interposing yourself - the Knight just allows a mechanical method for doing so. Ultimately, why do you think "Tank" is a role in MMOs? Fighting...

Having run a prot warrior myself, no. Some of them are similar, but the implementation is very different. The comparison is about as valid as the feat-enhanced uses of Bardic music.

So, that would be the opposite of what I actually said, right? Lets try this again. :cool: Assume I'm playing, for example, Baldurs Gate. As I play, I make choices, explore areas, kill things and take thier stuff. I do this through the medium of a simulation, in this case generated and...

Uh, bully for you? So I take it you agree with the bulk of my position?

If you are playing with a particularly restrictive/rail-roady/pixelbitching DM (yes, I'm aware thats a computer game term, but it does describe the actions of some DMs well) where there is only one answer to a problem or you are forced to follow a particular story, are you not roleplaying? It...

Or to put it another way, does playing a conventional tabletop game with pre-generated characters prevent it from being a roleplaying game?

Very dependant on the character class in question, but fortunately all the relevant details are in the SRD http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm

How about gestalting the first level (and only the first) with the expert class?

Plane Shift somewhere with a Fast Time trait?