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Just put your highest stat in STR if you want to play your bodybuilding Elf, your lowest stat in STR if you want to play your frail Orc, and your lowest stat in CON if you want to play your asthmatic Dwarf. The weaker Dwarf should still be a bit hardier than the weaker Elf. I'm not telling you...

This is my problem too. I am all for separating culture from race/lineage. My preferred system (Rolemaster) already does that. But I don't see a Minotaur's size or strength as cultural. He can live amongst Halflings for his whole life, but that won't change the fact that he is just massive and...

There are more of us than you think, brother!

Gygax was clear that hit points are not meat points, for sure. The vast corpus of D&D books however did have some mechanics, powers, and situations that treated hit points much like meat. Faolyn mentioned falling damage, for example, or hit point damage from poisons.

I think that is what the sentence means, but note it begins by talking about something different: luck. So perhaps it would be better phrased if it said that some people think it is luck, but Warlords reply it is talent, or even skill.

Clarity is good, but I'm not sure it is going to solve the problem. Some people see hit points as meat, and will be annoyed with any system that suggests they are something more. Other people see hit points as something more, and will be annoyed with any system that suggests they are just meat...

LOL, fair point.

Get ready for some criticism if you allow Warlords to outright heal (rather than just give, say, temporary hit points). I'm sure you know, but one of the main criticisms of the Warlord class in 4e was that they could 'shout a severed arm back on'. I never agreed with that criticism myself, and I...

I know they'll never make it Dark Sun, but can you imagine a John-Wick style DnD in the world of Dark Sun? Please make it Dark Sun.

Totally agree! Playing a Warlord was probably the most fun I've had playing DnD. I think most of the things that really annoyed people about the Warlord could be addressed by making their 'healing' just temporary HPs.

I actually agree totally with that.

It doesn't heal to full in Rolemaster, so that's more what I'm talking about -- other systems, or ideas for how DnD can be modded/changed in the future. If healing to full overnight is the problem, then making it so that characters don't heal to full overnight is surely the solution? In...

I find myself agreeing with a lot of what people are saying on this thread (which is not always the case lol). One of my two groups too sometimes struggles to find someone who wants to play the healer, because they know that they will often have to choose between healing and something more fun...

Good question, but I don't think it does. What was the Cleric's niche? The problem in earlier editions was that they could do almost everything -- Codzilla. Codzilla got full casting abilities; could wear heavy armor and a shield and got better BAB progression than other casters; could heal...

I feel the real secret to balancing the Cleric is to do what Rolemaster does: make healing more of an after-battle thing. The article touches upon this tool for balancing the Cleric, of course, but I think the Cleric works better as someone who can handle himself reasonably well in battle (not...

Ok, it's your website, and you call the shots. For the record though, I was not trying to discourage anyone; I was just wanting to see some lesser known games (like my own favorite, Rolemaster) get a shout out.

Oh right, thanks. I meant though the ones beyond the top 10 -- any chance of seeing the vote counts for each RPG that got votes?

Any chance we can get the full list with votes? I would be interested to see all the ones that got votes.

And Rolemaster :)

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