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How about tricks that only work once per fight (or even once per enemy) because you know after they see the trick its a lot harder to pull it off/fool them ... instead of repeat repeat repeat... like the 5e disarm is. (or riposte or whatever). Boring boring boring riposte after riposte after...

In 4e the malediction invoker had powers which had a backlash whenever used ... very cool I thought they made the best Witch actually.

4e Multiclassing was fairly complex especially by end game. You had Hybrids (explicitly) and Themes (umm thematically) which were very much also capable of generating multiclassing style benefits. Even feats not labelled multiclassing like taking ritualist (with hundreds of rituals) could...

I think one needs better definitions of what can be done with high end DCs Precision attack if you can use it often and perhaps allow it to combine with other maneuvers is a bursty sort of way to put something like expertise on weapon attacks

hmmm give Fighters expertise in Athletics/Acrobatics and Wizards Arcana and so on and everyone gets "Mastery" in a skill they have expertise in at level 11.

Personally my desire for larger than life Martial instead of say gish is what has grown over the years.

Pretty sure that started in 3e

Some more valid than others a spiderman that does not invent his web shooters is missing a core scientist and "renaissance man" element of the archetype. He became a renaissance ideal in a sense by gaining all that physicality. And the stories like to remind us not to forget that mentality and...

El is the hebrew word for god (Elohim was the word for gods esp the Canaanite Pantheon) and Ka is the Egyptian word for well an aspect of Soul. The two guys who originated superman, were jewish (or atleast one), and they knew these things.

And this one is generally true of 4e (while not exactly debuffing a blast mage) which is part of the reason I put a lot of thought into martial practices which are basically martial analogs to rituals ie ways to spend more time and often different skills than the process typically uses to...

Some more valid than others a spiderman that does not invent his web shooters is missing a core "renaissance man" element of the archetype. He became a renaissance ideal in a sense by gaining all that physicality. And the stories like to remind us not to forget that mentality and morality.

Experienced adult Spidey (in the comics) has been compared favorably to the entire Xmen team before. Strange had difficulties figuring out if he had weaknesses. He almost always pulls his punches physically and Wolverine told him once that was his weakness... he isn't superman living in a...

This feels in keeping with how those who believed in magic saw it... we sometimes call someone a wiz now because of astonishing skill is a carry though. They just did it for everything and knocked the top of what could be accomplished via skill.

One of the assertions is since casters are allowed to be that AND high level martial has always been at least called superhero in Chainmail and AD&D, I suppose its not even a jump.

Sure .... hence why I used the word "but"

The lightning bolt bounces and the fireball ignites/expands early.

Well the biggest things are probably not combat at all yes... but being able to run through the battlefield and riposte against every mook who tried to stop you would feel pretty epic. Both could be handy...

In 1e there was as part of the description of fireball and lightning both an effect described for physically interrupting the path of the spell, Now if I could only throw my shield in front of it as a reaction. (that would feel pretty cool)

Level up added a maneuver called Horizon Shot, it is perhaps the most mythic I have seen (and so extremely situational)

The guy demoing it did a move where he rolled and came up firing 3 shots in like 1.5 seconds. He was pointing out that he figured out how to do this without spending the kind of learning time the historic archers he was trying to emulate and they would have been much better and likely been able...