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The issue comes up when the entire adventure (or even campaign) focuses on specific types of adventures. Adventures with little or no combat are boring to the fighter who can only attack things. An adventure without dungeons gets pretty boring for the thief. An all urban campaign isn't a good...

Utility is a fancy word for "do everything". They were useful in combat (fireball, magic missile), exploration (invisibility, dimension door), social (charm person, friends) and knowledge (detect magic, see invisible). Yet they don't really map to a specific pillar or role the way fighter, rogue...

My goal is not to be bored when playing my character. If all the fighter can do it fight, the cleric heal, the thief find traps and the wizard whatever (idk, become God? What even is the wizard's role?) and you just sit there because you can't contribute otherwise, you don't have an RPG, you...

Exactly one edition of D&D did this. Most of them did not. Basic and AD&D (1e and 2e) had entries in the MM for generic elves, dwarves and (hu)men. 4e used monster stat blocks for NPCs and 5e has generic NPC "monster" style blocks for any humanoid. Only 3e and it's offshoots demanded NPCs use PC...

Bard:: a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds. The term you are looking for is entertainer. That is the generic word for poets, minstrels, and the like. If you want to remove all cultural aspects from D&D classes, may I recommend: Fighter...

The secret to understanding the D&D community is to understand that they are all currently embarrassed game designers who would totally take you world by storm with their personal homebrew if it wasn't for WotCs dominance of the market...

I assume you also removed barbarian, bard and paladin for the same cultural naming, right? Edit: Found the list. Disagree with a solid half of them.

Laughs in Druidic

No more than multicasting does. It just breaks the base unit of down further for more granularity. A fighter can buy martial skills easier and cheaper than he can arcane, divine and expert abilities. Trying to match a wizard in arcane skill is a fools errand as the wizard will get those skills...

And yet when during the D&D playtest, classes received substantial rebalancing nerfs (Sneak attack to 1/round, limits on paladin smites, wild shape limitations, concentration on spiritual weapon, and the death of twin spell) the community cried bloody murder. Luckily, some of those made it...

I think that's the obvious way to handle it. My concern is when the DM and the player have different interpretations of what that relationship entails. I prefer the game rules do not hand the DM a cudgel for those times there has been a.. failure, to communicate.

Uno Reverse! All features should be available to all characters. A feature's cost to take though depends on your class. Fighters can buy martial skills at cost, but it costs a greater amount to buy magical or skill expert abilities. You can then layer on prestige abilities that cost higher for...

Tried it. The Squishies didn't make it one round and the fighters duked it out for a couple. The barbarian won because of high HP and rage resistance.

You get the opposite effect: rocket tag where the fight is settled by the initiative die because the antagonist has enough damage to drop a PC in one round, but they themselves are dropped in one. The flight becomes win initiative and nova. If you want every fight to be a samurai iaijutsu duel...

Id argue that most classic warlock style patrons are antagonistic with their antihero contractors. Spawn is made a servant of Malbolge,, but realizing he's been lied to, uses his own hellfire to stop him. John Constantine is always pissing off the Devil, and when Mephisto gave Johnny Blaze the...

Still a better precedent than something like MultiVerses

A satisfying encounter. PCs are built with three conceits in mind: * They can do tremendous nova damage if they use all their power at once. " They don't have as many hp as monsters and have to rely on healing and AC to even the odds * They are built for multiple encounters with rests in...

It SHOULDN'T be normal. But personal experiences and whole subreddits full of DM horror stories that say it's less uncommon than it should be. And frankly, I feel the movement from DMs having mechanical justification to screw with their players (ie classes where role-play can have mechanical...

There are three ways I explain the differences: 1. Good enough. NPCs like the assassin or tribal warrior look enough like a rogue or barbarian to fill that niche. It's not 1:1, but it's close enough that trying for greater accuracy will break balance or simplicity. 2. Departmentalization: PC...

You are missing out on a goldmine of great OSR material, but you do you.