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I wouldn't say good, but there are some that aren't bad.

I'd stick with the rules as long as the rules didn't cause some kind of imbalanced abuse. Thing is I see all PC classes as kind of super charged, so most unrealistic types of common sense need not apply. A halfling shifting the tarrasque no problem. Heck I'd like the halfling to be able...

2 Reasons for me. 1. He is the poster child for for the NPC focus and control for the realms. 2. The books read like a bad steven segal movie to me.

My basic idea is your god asks of you what you are best suited for. Your god has plenty of worshipers who can give a sermon and keep the flock healthy. But the god has only a small amount of worshipers whose natural talents and psychology not only let them face evil and stand up to it without...

Its also worth noting that in the thread where the poster thinks wizards are superior he thinks there single target damage roughly equals a strikers. I personally think wizards have the most swing based on the GM. Things like the numbers of monsters how they are spread out and the general...

I am not sure if that is what he is saying, but i would say it is generally true. Or I'd say lack of optimization done post character creation is generally poor role playing. I can accept a unskilled farmer background for why you suck at level 1, but once you find your self in the position of...

I've always wanted to try rolemaster but I could never make it very far into the rule books. I usually like reading rule books, but something about how role master was written bored me to tears. I am not referring to how i envisioned how it would play out but to the writing style. I even had...

Having never played or used them is that because they are combat heavy or because you hat combat or a mixture of both.

Yeah. apparently it is widespread enough in order for WOTC to address the issue. But for those who do this, 4e at best gives the DM some leeway in when he has the enemies perform a retaliatory strike the PCs aren't totally tapped. Personally I'm not sure how people tapped out there goods in...

Yeh I've head about this for a while. It makes sense in a computer game like balders gate and heck I suspect there encounters were balanced under that assumption. But in pen and paper we never saw it because in the context of the world as the DMs portrayed them it just never made sense.

never saw it in any edition of d&d or any RPG ive played.

It is easier to build the adventure for parties that are totally suboptimal. When various players have different levels of power it gets hard. Now I have played in a game where we had one competent combat character and it was a blast. We acted like she was our body guard, we were mere...

If the entire party was like that I'd agree. But if the rest of the party was built somewhat with a nod towards optimization. Then it would be really hard to tailor make an encounter for that group.

This sounds dead on, and like a ton of fun. Since I've been seeing lots of minion fear in this thread, and as "bad" as strikers are against minions a single dragonborn striker could make a huge difference and any striker willing to suck it up and take a sub-par striker style area of effect...

As a DM I encourage people to play the character they want to play. As a player I usually fill holes, though I prefer to play magic types overall. My basic thought is its the personality of the character I am going to play that makes the fun not the abilities the character brings to the table...

I'd say playing Jayne Cobb is all about his personality and nothing about the build. If I wanted his build to be similar to Jaynes role in the show I think the closest would be a defender so probably fighter. If I were playing d20 modern I'd go with tough hero. Since he was somewhat DPS...

Pretty much the same for me but I was a bigger Bloodshadows fan. It with like earthdawn mixed with pulp detective stories, or a Garret PI Glen cook novel with Tommy guns. I loved the setting and loved the mechanics.

How did you find the stealth thread in the first place. Were you in combat? Did it have any cover or concealment, I think it would with all the other threads out there. Were you distracted at all? Mnnn beeer. Is your passive perception that high? Personally I like stealth in combat, I...

I like the ritual idea.

Depends on what you mean. I think it would be hard to novelize most per encounter and per day abilities in a way that shows or expresses they are per encounter and per day. You can easily just have the character only use that ability once per encounter and never really explain why its not used...