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I was thinking on the Barbarian Class the other day. 1> If the primitive schtick is going to become a background then that takes a chunk out of the Barbarian class. 2> If the Fighter is the Best Fighter with all weapons then the Barbarian can not be a specialist type of fighter. 3> If the...

The down side of the package approach is if some of the feats inside the packages are 'dominant' like Power Attack was in 3e. Power Attack was a feat that as a fighter type that you almost had to pick up to produce reasonable amounts of damage for your level. It was a dominant feat and if...

Straight up? No, a high level fighter won't beat a high level wizard that is prepared. Fighter though have been known to borrow power in the form of magical items that allow them to boots fly, broaches to see invisibile, or those cursed teleporting helms. Nothing ruins a wizards flying demon...

.. or to avoid the one Hold is equivalent to 200 hp of damage that they say Hold has an exhaustion mechanic. Each hold laid on a target does level x5 of exhaustion. A 10th level Wizard hits with a Hold for 50 hp of exhaustion. When the total reaches 200 or the combination of damage and...

Really? In 1st ed my my level 10 fighter could attack and kill 10 goblins per round (they were in the 1 hit die category). This was to allow Hero's to go into Battles and kill swaths of Men-at-Arms or the equivalent. In 3rd ed Fighters had Cleave and Whirlwind attack (with things like Bloody...

Two points to mostly end this discussion. 1> Despite NDAs, I have not heard any talk or seen any glimpses of character sheets that would suggest that the core elements of the game has fighters using Daily, Encounters, etc (and the discussion with the designers in their seminars would suggest...

Does this mean the greatest wizard of the Realms will now be known as El - Minimum - ster? :D Boy, someone's gonna be cranky when they get back from hell.

I can not do a proper comparison because I have not played A Song of Ice and Fire with friends yet. I hope that by the end of the month to do it. It is a low fantasy world. The system is a roll and keep system using d6. Using an Axe might be Fighting 4d + 2B Axe; where Fighting is the...

I think that this #6 point misses the Wizard's strongest weapon. The Wizard's tool box of spells. Straight up with a Wizard flinging damage spells compared to a fighter then the fighter is going to win. Even in 3e the fighter usually beat the Evocation Wizard in high level play for damage...

I just bought the hard cover version of 'A Song of Ice and Fire RPG' from Green Ronin and it does this. Plate Armor is the best armor at absorbing damage but it imposes a heavy penalty on your defense making you easier to be hit. Shields help your defense which can balance things some. The...

I know the number 50 mil seems like an astronomic amount of sales but it really isn't. In 2006 you have roughly 20 million people that have played the game. Consider many of those people are not active in the hobby or buy regular product. Let's just say you have 1/20 that volume or 1 mil...

And yet, I know many people that have WoW accounts. It doesn't mean they are actively using them daily. I, officially, have a DDI account. I got it as freebie when I did some early Encounter play stuff. I don't use it for my regular gaming as my local area will often say they want to do DnD...

All we need to do is wait till GenCon when the Designers and Developers go to the bar for drinking and sharing old 'campaign' stories. I'm sure a few people will get the 'truth' of the rumours.

Sorry for the bit of historical off topic drift but druids being folded under Priests was a real mess of bad copy and paste. It is a good a lesson in what happens when people don't pay attention to the materials they are 'designing' and just stick square peg into round hole. If you look at the...

You could even call it two classes as Clerics are just using magic with a different flavour from Wizards. Taken to the extreme, you could turn everything into a set of lego blocks that you assemble as you like. Look at Mutants and Masterminds, True20, or several others like Blue Rose that...

Which I find funny, again, as Smoke Powder has been in Forgotten Realms as long as the Spell Jammer setting if not earlier. The 1st ed DnD DMG has rules on Six Shooters and Sorcery. The 2nd ed rules has several alternative time frame campaign books (The Green Set like A Mighty Fortress) that...

Pathfinder has 11 original classes 8 additional classes (in Advanced Player's Guide, Ultimate Combat, and Ultimate Magic). 2 dedicated semi-classes (Ninja and Samurai which are different enough to get full write ups from level 1 to 20). 4 third party classes covering Psionic classes And, I...

There have been several calls by people to make the Ranger the 'Wilderness' focused character. My thoughts on that are it pigeon holes the class to a very specific type of campaign and situation. I love 'Wilderness Rangers' and am a big fan of the Ranger's Apprentice series. I just recognize...

My thoughts and two pennies. 1> There are plenty of versions of rangers. When I look at my books of ranger kits, prestige classes, or dragon articles then I find there are plenty of different rangers. Many of those types of rangers like the Desert Ranger, Urban Ranger, or Glacier Ranger are...

I just continue to find it interesting to look at what WotC is putting out in their weekly posts. I mentioned earlier (up thread) on looking at how there seems to have been some radical shifting in what WotC seems to have planned and what they are now seeming to work on. Synopsis 1>...