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That was certainly my reading, yes. Unless they sneak it into tomorrow's packet, I don't think we're getting it.

I've talked about this on other threads, but as someone who's mostly played D&D and mostly played in RP-heavy, combat-light campaigns, I'm always a bit leery of games that claim to emphasize role-playing, as I find that they tend to add rules that take role-playing decisions out of the hands of...

I think setting lower DCs really helps. The PCs should succeed most of the time anyway, so as long as the DCs aren't super high, you'll have reasonably trained characters succeeding most of the time and untrained characters succeeding about half the time. (Hopefully the untrained characters will...

I understand that you were making a joke, but I thought it was worth a quick quote from the 4th edition Player's Handbook: And this is 4th Edition, which has the (perhaps unfair) reputation of being the most "gamist" edition. I don't believe there's a wrong way to play Dungeons & Dragons, but...

The one virtue of the ability score requirements for multiclassing is that they're easily ignorable. I imagine this'll be something (like XP, carrying capacity, racial level limits, and alignment restrictions) that I just wind up ignoring or house ruling. I understand -- but am not thrilled...

I tend to reinvent everything from campaign to campaign, including changing up racial origins and sometimes completely reskinning particular races/monsters, so I'm not terribly bothered what happens in the official game settings. But I definitely think that presenting a mix of unique monsters...

Elf!

I like having the option for unarmed combatants, but I prefer a more flexible build that can also support big brawler types.

Well, classes other than the Fighter still get to fight, so I think having a class-group called Expert is totally reasonable, and probably the best option.

To me, it sounds like you're still talking about the character's personality. You're just saying some aspects of the personality aren't expressed unless "the chips are down." But for a D&D character, when are the chips up? I think they have definitions. I don't think those definitions are...

But in the current model, the delta is 1.

I think it would be weird to offer (for example) a Warforged or a Dragonborn with no racial abilities beyond a flat +1 per ability. Those are more obvious examples, but I feel that the racial abilities for even races like Dwarf and Elf are really important for establishing flavor. A Dwarf...

Let the players decide on their characters' personalities and choose alignments to fit. Generally, characters' personalities will stay fairly consistent, and there actions will match their alignment. And if they don't? Periodically reassess: "Jim, I've noticed that you're playing your character...

Let's break it down. There are two reasons folks are in favor of restrictions on multi-classing: 1) balance 2) narrative justification While pre-reqs MIGHT be a viable balancing mechanic, they're certainly not a NECESSARY balancing mechanic, and clearly the focus should be on how powers are...

For what it's worth, I feel the exact opposite way: Multiclassing should be easier and simpler. I have no idea which of us has the most representative POV, but it appears that Wizards has chosen the correct going-in-position from which to find out...

The problem is that static modifiers on a d20 are not a good way to model proficiency. You either have small modifiers and a largely random result or you have larger modifiers and a largely pre-determined result. Rolls that rely on more dice are better, because there's less swing. Make...

I don't expect any correlation between the amount spent on the legal case and the budget of the movie itself. If anything, a protracted lawsuit will just make them hungrier for a big payday to counterbalance. If all they wanted was a cheap special effects movie with low tier actors, they would...

I think the word you're looking for is "Jedi".

I think this is the fault in your thinking: A game can be a combination of multiple things, including storytelling and improvisational elements (*role-playing elements*) alongside combat/strategy and simulationist elements. Some people prefer more of some of these elements than others, but the...