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It does not. See 1st PHB p. 32, The Multi-Classed Character, and p. 33, The Character With Two Classes. Neither does it prohibit adding more types. The Thief, Paladin, Assassin, Monk, Druid, Ranger, Illusionist and Bard, and the half-elf, gnome and half-orc as player-characters, all came from...

"No, it can't," has been the answer from the modernists. The game, they say, has changed because the world has changed. Now, somehow, A>(A+B+C). Taking their program seriously, the best thing would be to put 4e out of print immediately (if not previously) and replace it with yet another...

There's a "recipe for player-GM conflict" at every turn for some folks. They seem to be a lot more common in ENworld than in my gaming experience. Yes, the DM defines the alignments. That should not be news, any more than any of the DM's other duties. It is (or used to be) laid out in the...

I don't know what for you makes 4e "too much like a skirmish game". However, for me I would say that the amount of time (an hour or more) that a fight takes up in 4e is a key factor. In my experience, 3e tends also to be a drag that way. In games such as Traveller and RuneQuest, a single hit is...

As far as I know, the only one legally licensed was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, by estimable Erick Wujcik, published by Palladium Books. That's just one of a number of games Palladium has published with variations on the same basic rules. Rifts is another. If you're...

It sure as hell is different! First, (1) is NOT "find out what the players want to do". (1) is "design the 'encounter'." (2) is tell the players what they're going to do. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, in Step 1 we have already established what is what; in Step 3, we are just settling...

You and your rhetorical fellow travelers do, though. Why are you so fixated on this notion that the only options are either: (A) publish one radical reaction against Dungeons & Dragons (or just the latest "D&D") after another, label each one "D&D", and then discard it in a few years; or (B)...

That's not the idea. Everything is "level appropriate" for someone! Dave Arneson came up with levels in the first place so there could be something for everyone. The Superheroes and Wizards could find Balrogs to deal with, while the weaker figures could have a range of challenges better suited...

The terminology has meaning. In old-fashioned role-playing games In 4e, an "encounter" is a game in itself, with objectives and rules set beforehand by the DM. (I am sure I read a very well written passage summing that up, somewhere in the 4e books, but I cannot find it just now.) Basically...

M.L. Martin: Have you got an identity crisis there? First, you seemed to imply that you were representing the views of Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, "the authors" who "misrepresented" the game by not describing it in what on closer examination are terms dripping with contempt. Now, you claim to...

I could ask "why not?", but instead I can only wonder, Do you really miss the point? There's no necessity for a different publisher. Guess what TSR published besides D&D? Empire of the Petal Throne Boot Hill Metamorphosis Alpha Top Secret Gamma World Gangbusters Star Frontiers Marvel Super...

Why do you hate Exalted? Show us on the doll how White Wolf debauched with you.

I think it's just the opposite, that it has been a narrowing of the portfolio that is to blame. I suspect that you are following the fashion for saying things one knows very well are false because the cynicism gets celebrated as 'wit'. In the old game (unlike in 4e!), a Paladin or Ranger could...

Look, if the 3e guys really had a coherent plan -- as opposed to a committee's collection of half-baked ideas about how to jury rig three incompatible machines out of parts cannibalized from a fourth -- then what was it?. I don't want what 4e delivers, but at least it has a clear scheme and...

Please, at least read your own posts, okay? That is the case if raise dead is successful. I think it is the same in 2e. I see that you do not. You are welcome to read DMG p. 110. You are welcome at any time to stop trying to tell other people all about what we think, and all about the contents...

Yes. For instance, Gygax and Kuntz, when they provided for just such with the added spell levels (7th-9th) that found their way into Supplement I and on. If people want a different game, then they can go for a different game. What the hell is so bad about actually using or making a set of rules...

That is not so. How do you figure there would be fewer choices in the scenario I mentioned above? As far as I can see, there would have been nothing to "lose" except the edition wars that would not have come into existence in the first place. However, since you think it is so, then here's a...

Oh, I reckon the Wizards of the Coast are doing that just fine. I wonder how many among us, fans and detractors alike, would have cared (or even heard) so much about 3e and 4e, if AD&D were still on the market and these newcomers were billed as, say, Magic Era: Third Age from Atlas Games and...

Look at Dungeons & Beavers, or Champions, or Exalted, or HeroQuest, or... It's a wild idea, but how about folks go and play whichever games they actually like instead of insisting that someone else's game has to get stuffed into some mold? You are never going all to agree on the perfect...

If that's a rule in 2e, then there's another problem (there are a few, IMO) with 2e. It is most definitely not the rule in 1st ed. Advanced D&D. If you're new to D&D, then you should get the same chance as your "elders" to play the low levels and have the fun of discovering things for yourself...