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I think fixed damage would be kind of an unfun and uninteresting thing. It might speed things up, but it would be less exciting. But I would be in favor of generally nixing the weapons table and instead simply making it so that a Fighter or a Rogue or a Cleric or a Wizard rolled the damage...

Well, I just did the post 10 days ago-- but... fine, here is what I wrote up again. Maximum flexibility for player choice while still retaining enough of the flavor of the race to feel like it is the same race. One won't even need to worry about different stats for different subraces anymore--...

If ability scores are divorced from attack bonus, damage bonus, class mechanics, initiative, saves and skill rolls-- then by all means use whatever system. But so long as the ability scores mean more "how good you are at being class X" than what they say on the tin-- all races should have equal...

Let's look at this in a very comparable situation. Let's say a low level character receives a +1 magic version of whatever weapon they are already using. How many players upon receiving that would say "oh? You said it was red? My favorite color is blue. I throw it away." and what would...

My choice would be to throw ability scores into the same place that racial class restrictions and level limits, hireling tables, individual weapon proficiencies/specializations, exotic weapon class and treasure types tables went. Divorce the core mechanics from ability scores or remove them...

I can see some argument in regards to this applying to the class of "wizard" in particular, because magic gained specifically through academic study presupposes that the culture the character comes from has the infrastructure for academies and an affinity for arcane arts. But what about every...

To me-- the biggest flaw of Dark Sun is similar to the flaw with Ravenloft. "I want to play a ___________" "Yeah, that doesn't exist in this universe. But you can play a gypsy, which aren't considered humans, or a big bug monster with incredibly broken stats." But-- that aside-- Dark Sun does...

The issue, as I see it, is not that the average minotaur is stronger-- it is that a Gnomish Fighter could imaginably defeat a Minotaur Fighter due to better battle tactics due to being smarter, being a harder to hit target, having better aim and taking less damage when being knocked about due to...

The idea of races as classes is just quite dumb. Although the races may vary from the standard human culture in certain ways, not every member of the society could possibly have the exact same skills, abilities and specializations and still survive as a society. For the concept of a "racial...

Well-- I guess we'd best start recalculating to-hit numbers using THAC0 and restrict all non-human races to just being given arbitrary attribute limits and allowed to be 2-3 classes and have hard level limits on all those classes for each race while humans have "dual classing" which means they...

Just get rid of ability scores all together. There is often only the loosest and shakiest of reasons of why they affect anything they affect across the character sheet in the first place and despite being treated with equal weight in character creation, a character most certainly does not get...

It certainly is far too common of an ability, but it is because so many of these things are rooted in folklore that says they are things that hide away in caves and/or only come out at night and that's why none of us has seen them. I suppose if there were something distinctly different like...

Okay, if I were to redo the races I think I might do something like this. A few of these There are a number of other rules attached to races because they are too fiddly. Weapon proficiencies and armor proficiencies are useless to all classes that are not casters, changes to movement speed never...

I think quite a lot of this-- and many other issues-- could simply be fixed by getting rid of ability scores all together. Who needs them? They are arbitrary as hell. Why exactly are Strength and Constitution not just one score? It is one thing to explain on paper that a person can be really...

What makes you so sure that the ideas are "good" with "functional justification"? We could start from the arbitrarily decided array of attributes that are treated as equal at player creation and yet have never been remotely balanced in any edition of the game-- and then everything else across...

The only "only islands" franchise I know well is One Piece. And one thing that One Piece does extremely well, other than having the clash between a centralized Lawful government against a bunch of Chaotic pirates and even having good and evil elements in both sides that causes clashes.... It...

I've hardly ever in my entire life heard any idea, any, that the answer to "why" we were doing it was "tradition" that I haven't been in favor of getting rid of. Tradition is the single worst reason to do something ever. There was a story I heard once. There was a woman who, when she was a...

Short furless yellowish semicat-people, just like the male ones. I would ponder over whether they should have 6 breasts-- but the Dragonborn, and Tabaxi, have gone to show that the number of boobs a race has is 2 regardless of one many nipples the appropriate creature should have or if they...

I don't know that the specifics are entirely balanced, but-- I will say that I like the general idea. I notice that there is no Half-Elf ancetry, so why not just turn the half-orc one into "Orc". It is so very difficult to create a balanced PC Orc as long as there is "Half-Orcs" that are not...

I wonder if it was really so impossible to revise Ravenos and Tzimisce enough to put them in the core book. I had a particular fondness for those clans. I am glad the Followers of Set made it into the game though, they were my favorite.