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The answers, as diverse or interesting as they have been, are essentially all the same answers. The "Simple" Fighter is just what we all know. The "Basic" Fighter. The one with the most armor and most weapons options. The "Combat" class. What do they [need to] do? 1) hit reliably well/often 2)...

If one wants an "alien" mindset to elves and how their long lives influence their views, as opposed to the very HUMAN view of "grass is always greener/I remember when..." the VERY different and very strange, different, confusing/befuddling to the human observers/they interact with, is the...

The last thing an old elf would be is "conservative" in any sense. Any elf (who is not mentally ill) recognizes that the ONLY constant to existence is Change. An attempt to "hold onto" how things have ever-been or viewing "the past" as some good ole days that MUST not be released is as...

That possibility is quite slim. No one who plays or has ever played this game, native English speaker or not, refers to it as "DAD." These posts strike me as rather nonsensical baiting, testing out language construction and/or trying to glean information on general thought patterns or...

Point system + Individual powers (dictated by discipline/thematic groupings) + Point Recovery & "Overextending/Pushing your Limits" Mechanic. Done it. It works. It's flavorful. "Psychics" all draw from the same pool of "Talents." These are minor and/or general "mental powers" that can effect...

The fiction of the world has it that a spell is a formulae -of gestures, hand signs, specific words, certain materials, symbols or diagrams, whatever the formulaw says you need to incorporate- that is used to both harness and shape the innate force of magic that pervades the game world's cosmos...

So, jumping off of a tangent of a tangent from the "make a list of only 6 Classes" challenge thread, which recently started talking species, as well... I was 6reminded of an ollllld thread wherein we were kinda building a whole system of a D&D game around the number 4. And here we are. So I...

Because I made it. Simple as that.

Cool list. Not really surprising to see creatures that are neutral or good, the potential npc ally or helpful creature types: pixies, sprites, merfolk and pegasi, and tita-I-mean-"empyrean"...hell, even a unicorn doesn't come in until #106 (with actual Angels [!] following up at 107), all fall...

If we're going to do six (lots of people seem to missing that part of the challenge/discussion -by both too few and up to "much too" many) then it would behoove us to take some semblance of "balance" into account. The easiest way to do that has, already, been mentioned in the building them up...

Oh! Sure. One can do that too... Str: Fighter (combat) Dex: Thief (skills) Con: Barbarian or Ranger (combat, some skills) Int: Mage (magic) Wis: Cleric (support/combat and magic) Cha: Bard (support/skills and magic) 3 combat-capable classes. 3 skill-capable classes, 3 magic-capable classes...

Fighter: combat expertise Thief: skill expertise Cleric: support expertise Mage: magic-expertise Ranger (the Fighter-Thief): support, combat and skills Swordmage (the Fighter-Mage): support, combat and magic <drops mic> Boom. Done.

Class Group Base Class Prime Ability/HD Specialist Class Abilities Specialist Feature Archetype Class MAD Signature Feature Warriors: Combat Expertise Fighter Str/d12 Cavalier Str + Cha Code of Honor Barbarian Str + Con + ? Battle Rage, Clan Boons Swashbuckler Str +...

Gnomes are not from the Land of Faerie. When the material world contained only dragons and titans, and the Elder Gods walked the land, gnomes were, in fact, the original species of [Prime] Material beings. They were made by the titans to act as servants and caretakers for the "garden." The...

BAHAHAHA! You're looking for consensus on any issue/element/topic in D&D!?! HAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, though, <wipes tear from eye>... come on... You know the answer to your title query is, "Anything [however "common"] you want or need for the given game/campaign." Right? Of all the various...

I tend to think of ye olde "18" as the natural peak/top of human potential performance. Since this is a fantasy game, and magic is real, clearly it is not only possible, but not uncommon, for various creatures, species, and human/humanoid persons to be able to exceed that. So I would say "20"...

Not sure what made me think of this thread from...apparently, almost exactly 11 years ago! Jeez. I'm old... but for anyone who missed it the first time around, here y'all go. Hopefully useful or, at least, an enjoyable read, and/or get some of the creative juices flowing (for NPCs, for plots...

Ya know, kudos to you for a really interesting question/topic! I have, literally, never thought about this before. Histories over histories, nations over nations, cultures over soaring civilizations over conquering empires over magical heights over magical catastrophes... but it's all the...

"Needed" Fantasy Archetypes: The Warrior Guy: Fighter. The Casterly Guy: Mage/"Wizard"/Magic-user. The Skillz Guy: Thief/"Rogue." The Support Guy: Cleric. The Warrior + Casterly: "Swordmage/Spellsword/Magus/Witcher" types, some Bards, some Warlocks guys. The Warrior + Skillz: Barbarian...

A tertiary (or further down) Pathfinder supplement and Vox Machina character do not an "everywhere" make.