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It's a difference in philosophy. You've espoused a philosophy that you want the game to map to the setting. Nothing wrong with that. But the flip side of that philosophy is the idea that the setting should map to the game- that the setting reflects what the game rules model. And so, if one...

Ideally, if there's something special about character classes as opposed to NPC "classes", I'd think that the PC version of something a random NPC has (that isn't granted by something a player wouldn't have access to, like species) would be superior anyways. Of course, that's assuming you think...

Guilty about the checks. I'm still occasionally reminded by my players that there is no Engineering skill, and they tease me when I ask them to make a Reflex or Will save. : (

Thinking about it more, it's because they're player-facing. If a DM doesn't want to use vampiric roses from Castle Amber in his game, he doesn't have to- even if he's running Castle Amber, he could substitute them for something else. The players don't have any say in this process, and I don't...

Did someone say dragon cannon?

I guess you could argue 2-4 based on stuff like this:

Ever since I heard about it, I have to admit I'm intrigued by the concept of an ability draft, and I may try it the next time I have the opportunity.

I realized I posted in this thread, but didn't address what it was about! Mea culpa! So I like having more options for non-magicians. I like having something to do that isn't "I attack". I like there being reasons to choose weapon A or weapon B. So I'm for weapon masteries...but I will...

Dragonspawned? Dragonwarped? Dragonflavored?

I'm not saying it's bad- the players get a buff, the monsters get some serious buffs (one of my players didn't believe me when I told them the Morlock that was kicking their butt in was only CR2!), but that everything is new and I haven't had time to see how it all works together. At least 2 of...

I get the problem. If one character has to struggle to contribute to a scenario when another just waltzes through it, that can lead to frustration- and that frustration has to go somewhere. Typically, it goes towards either the DM for allowing the imbalance, the other player for being unfairly...

I get that. But like I said, if I want to even pretend my campaign world makes sense, it becomes hard to justify where all these high level threats keep coming from, and why they always tend to show up in my party's path, lol. I know D&D is a game, and that's just how things have to be, but it...

I'm sorry to hear that, because that path is a lot harder to work with. I played d20 (3e and Pathfinder) for two decades and encounter building was such a chore. I basically had to stop using humanoid foes entirely because it was much more work to build them and gear them than it took my...

That's what I've been doing- I'll have everyone roll and say "these are the arrays you can use to build your characters".

I've had this debate with people I play with for years. They insist point buy is the way to go, even though point buy for one class can be very different than another class. And I've been making this argument since 3e, lol. Go on, build a Monk and a Fighter with point buy in 3e. Let alone...

Ah the Gladiator. How often I've used them as an example. I'm amused that most of the time, when I do, people tend to dismiss me, but here we finally have a thread about him (I'm not misgendering him, he's not a Gladiatrix, after all!). That NPC's are built different is an unfortunate...