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MMORPGs also put great importance on balance in PvE as well. Playing a underpowered class in a cooperative game is still really crappy because either people don't bring you along, they bring you along if you are insanely skilled at your class(and then you are still lagging behind many other...

Through appealing to popularity the Michael Bay Transformers series are objectively better forms of entertainment than D&D. TBH any single one of the Michael Bay Transformers movies are better forms of entertainment than D&D. Just check those box office earnings.

I know this probably doesn't help, but some editions(mostly 3.5 but I've seen it once in 4e as well) have this concept of low OP, mid OP, and high OP games. This sets the tone of the game that the DM wants to run and asks the players to either crank up the optimization or lower it so that...

IIRC the Warlock depending on invocation or pact can get an invisible familiar that they can see through the eyes of. Also at higher levels they can Arcane Eye at-will. Also if they do the scouting themselves, Witch Eye can let them see through illusion and transmutation spells which would let...

I prepare both spells and I get a lot more use out of Hold Person because most of my 1st level spell slots go towards Mage Armor and Shield. I don't prepare many damaging spells(sometimes none at all) because I usually have a party that does enough DPR that I don't have to worry about Magic...

Also if I remember back in 2e(which means the rules might be a holdover from 1e) that Wizards had to find all of their spells after first level which meant that Wizards only ever had access to the spells that the DM specifically put into their campaign. On top of that there wasn't concentration...

Dang! That sounds really cool. I kind of imagine the Menite light cavalry from Warmachine. :P

It is so much fun. I happen to have a Staff of Charming and sometimes after my skeleton archers and zombies wreck someone, I'll just use my staff to cast Command: Halt on someone so they don't even get to retalliate against my undead. :P

I've played through HotDQ, PotA, and the expedition adventures that go along with them and I have always had amazing opportunities to make use of Hold Person. Whether to stop them from taking turns or to board the crit train to painville. Even if only 20% of the enemies in the MM are humanoids...

I think Necromancers are ridiculously powerful. That army of skeleton archers exploiting bounded accuracy though. If you want you can just keep a handful of undead and then support them by still being a high level Wizard. We had a game with 7 players who were all between level 5-8 and sometimes...

I think Iron Kingdoms RPG could also be included in that list. There is a hard upper limit on what kind of magic casters can perform and the strongest magic tends to be battlefield control. While high level non-gifted(gifted being the magic archetype for PCs) do amazing things that a gifted...

I'm sorry it isn't guaranteed success and that it might be a bad idea to risk casting a shut down/debuff spell on a target that is going to go immediately after you. However if you use it intelligently then it's an absolutely crazy party aid spell. Our 6th or 7th battle of the day, we had a...

Suddenly githzerai have become much more horrifying. :O

I dislike Mystic. It feels plain and doesn't really tell you much about the class. Psion is upfront, direct, and has a certain power to it.

I actually played a long term 4e pbp PvP game on RPOL while I was deployed to Iraq and it actually worked really well overall. Some classes were more self sufficient than others and did really well at 1v1(Fighters, most strikers including Rogues surprisingly, and Wizards) while some classes...

I'm an MMO fan and I like having options for my characters for "builds" and "specs" or whatever, but that's not because of super optimization. It's because it lets me put my own personal touch on my character's mechanical feel. I play a Tiefling Psion/Vampire in 4e. I play a Tiefling because I...

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I was burned by bad balance long before I ever touched an MMO. Radically unequal classes are a bug and not a feature. This whole casters-start-off-really-crappy-but-become-gods-in-the-end-as-a-reward-for-putting-up-with-the-crap-low-levels, not only seems like a massive D&Dism that doesn't...

I voted for Eberron, Dark Sun, Birthright, and Ravenloft for campaign settings. Vryloka, Devas, Shadar-kai, and Revenants for races. And I voted for Shaman, Warden, and Seeker for classes. At the very end I added in a comment stating "bring back the vampire class". Seriously I want to play one...

I agree with Neonchameleon here. Back in the 3.X days, I made characters based on my character's concept under the assumption that all classes were roughly equal in terms of viability and was repeatedly shown how wrong I was for that assumption. I don't think I ever felt more worthless in 3.X...