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If the new classes from 3e were getting lots of concern from people defending the historical status quo of D&D; if the decision to base classes like the Bard and Ranger on the 3e version rather than earlier ones wasn't obvious; if a bunch of other decisions to go with the 3e way even when that...

Because the armoured battle cleric and the mage with a totally different selection of discrete spells are so prevalent.

[ When your position concerning all hit point loss being physical wounds is not only contradictory to what the actual rules say and always have said about the nature of hit points but also incredibly damaging to any sense of verisimilitude (even if that's not why I played D&D), I don't think...

If you're going to treat hit point damage as involving arms being chopped off, then you also get to explain how you sleep it back on. Apologies to any Newts reading this, but that's not normal where I come from.

I think it depends how often you want people failing. How skilled should you have to be before getting lost every week isn't likely? A +12 bonus against DC15 means you're probably failing at least once in the first week. To make one comment to the more general question, the mounts and pack...

In my homebrew settings there's a few deities (the Sun Emperor, the Moon Goddess, Lady Death, the Storm King, some others) known by various names in all the parts of the world I've detailed; with different attitudes depending on the local culture. There's more that are known in some cultures and...

If you can find a copy then Dungeon Run is pretty good solo, more than most dungeon crawlers. Epic Adventure Dungeon Crawl (yes that is the name) is intended for solo play, and is a decent game. Tomb plays well solo but I'm not sure it's quite the DnD style game you're asking about. Mage Knight...

Agreed. Also, the frequency with which they apparently deal with Realms-shattering disasters successfully is one of the classic Mary Sue traits, "Incredible Deeds Done Off-Screen".

Some fairly culturally stereotyped ones their, though that's not necessarily a bad thing. Your 'desert' cavalryman (not the elite ghulam cavalry recruited from the steppes) was also a lancer, I'll note. If you want to include some others, 'aristocratic' cavalry from the steppe cultures are...

As a gardener familiar with what happens when you plant seeds, I'm assuming there's going to be a very low rate of sprouting from those. Unless it's as bad an analogy as I expect.

It's an observable fact that far more people stop fighting not because they're unconscious and dying (very silly in itself as the only possible result of injury) but because they no longer believe they can win. Whether that's by running away, surrendering, 'collapsing' because of an injury...

Star Wars Saga had a system something like that in the Wound Track. For that matter, 4e had the disease system which did some of those things. And there are other D20 games which included something along those lines, such as Traveller T20.

In the past, releasing a setting one bit of material (an adventure, a regional sourcebook) at a time has worked perfectly well as a way to release settings. See the Known World for a D&D example. I don't think it matters how the setting is presented, but how well it's done is much more important.

I think Steve Kenson has mostly been involved with superhero RPGs, Silver Age Sentinels, M&M, and the Freedom City setting; none of whihc I can help with. But, his name is also on some of my Shadowrun books, both fiction and sourcebooks. In my opinion only, the fiction was good for a game-line...

I guess we're reading very different fiction, then. The archetype I see in fiction with the berserker is someone ferocious in attack - more so than any other type of character - but if you can survive their initial furious assault then they're really not that hard to kill.

I'm not sure that they seem any tougher than non-Berserker warrior types. Or at least, not any better at lasting in combat than the knight, to use a different archetype. Also, that doesn't really answer to the damage differential, where the berserker seems like it should be the class doing the...

It is fascinating that in 5e design the class designed around 'raw power and primal fury' does less damage but is more resilient than the one that depends more on skill and training. After all, who wouldn't expect the berserker to be a hard hitter with less resilience than the knight? You have...

Well that puts me in my place. Obviously the bookshelves full of books I have are just for show, because I can't have read any of them or I'd understand that magic is the supreme force in absolutely every situation and nothing better than it has ever appeared anywhere no sir. Presumably the...

Is it also 'supposed' to be able to do things that mundane skill can, but better? What mundane skills do you accept as beyond the ability of people who aren't highly trained in a particular area? How much training do you believe a competent fighter requires? And most importantly, why do high...

Do you note the common factor in your examples in the first paragraph? Big dumb brutes fighting, and the one with the bigger numbers wins. Anything more sophisticated, well that's what magic is there for. Except magic is equally as good at dealing with the big dumb brutes. Congratulations...