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The correct solution, and the one SWSE takes, is to make fighters not suck. For example, in SWSE, my experience from 1st level on is that Soldiers are as good as Jedi in many circumstances and better in most. The Jedi are either completely dependent on Force abilities and thus easy to cripple...

Can you honestly see either Fafhrd or Conan EVER sucking like a 1st level D&D character, or even close to it? Conan in particular would have crushed such a pathetic weakling by the time he was 12 or 13, and I daresay Fafhrd wouldn't be more than a year behind, if that. I personally think the...

At the moment... Spirit of the Century Star Wars Saga Edition (technically d20, so you may want to strike it from the list) ... and an as-yet-unreleased proprietary system. :) I've fairly recently played and enjoyed the Mongoose version of RuneQuest and HERO 5th Edition. I enjoy Wushu as a...

Agreed. Aside from the Spelljammer (and to a lesser extent Dark Sun) settings for AD&D 2e, BECMI D&D's fluff is far, far more appealing to me than AD&D/3e's, and its rules far more than AD&D. Indeed, I dumped AD&D entirely once I realized it would be faster and more fun to convert Spelljammer...

My personal preference would be: A powerful sorcerer can call down a storm of elemental chaos that can destroy an army. A powerful witch can speak a curse that can blight the crops of an entire nation. A powerful summoner can call forth a godlike dragon whose beam-breath can annihilate a...

A much more useful and easy to grasp distinction that at once better exemplifies the alignments in question and pushes the meaningless alignment-based distinctions attached to the fiends into the background.

D&D today seems much closer to the D&D of the mid-80s, at least (I never played before that), than to any other RPG I've ever played. In terms of playstyle, I would argue that D&D as of 3e is considerably closer to 1e than it is to 2e - and, ironically, closer to 1e than 2e was, despite 2e...

Wow. I couldn't disagree more. In all the campaigns I've run, admittedly over only four years or so, I've never seen anything as game-breaking, difficult to meaningfully challenge (without a TPK), frustrating and spotlight-consuming as a core 3.5 druid prior to the polymorph nerf. The closest...

If "core" meant "what is included unless specifically ruled out," it would be every d20 book ever published. The distinction is completely meaningless to me because I don't kid myself that the PHB, DMG and MM1 were the best-designed books of the d20 era.

The only actual D&D games I've played in for years allow pretty much any source, with specific bans for particular classes, races, etc. For example, I'm currently playing a character whose 'class' line reads Barbarian (D&D 3.5) 1/Samurai (OA) 1/Pet Monster Trainer (BESM d20) 2. The PMT class...

I'm only counting D&D and d20-derived games here. Other. I used to play a hybrid d20 system based on d20 Modern with elements of Spycraft and D&D 3.5. Now I play a much less hybridized d20 system based on Star Wars Saga Edition with elements of d20 Modern and D&D 3.5.

I have used it in 3e and will use it in 4e if I adopt the 4e rulesset; otherwise, I'll use it in SWSE. Note that I've only run or played Eberron as one world in a Spelljammer campaign, rather than on its own, and it's fairly likely that will continue into 4e. I'm not sure if I'll continue with...

Yeah, D&D's incompatibility with sword and sorcery is the main reason I wouldn't run it. The only two types of fantasy I like are JRPG (which is related to, but not exactly the same as, anime fantasy), and sword and sorcery; D&D has never done either of those terribly well, and what I've seen...

D&D isn't my go-to fantasy game. I sometimes play it for the sake of a GM I particularly enjoy playing with, because I don't actively DISlike the system; it just doesn't do the kinds of fantasy I have any interest in. I'm not sure if you want input from those for whom it's not, but for...

Sort of. Saga's defenses scale faster than D&D 3.5's, however, and there are far fewer non-BAB-related penalties for multiclassing, which makes it more attractive at first blush.

It's not actually possible to have the bonus and number of Force Powers you're describing using SWSE's default chargen method. The closest you could get (17 Wis, 16 Cha) would leave you with three 8s and a 10 in a system where every stat is sometimes important for every character. You're going...

I've been playing Saga since a week after it came out - every other week for campaign play, more often for concept playtesting during the week. PLUSSES Character creation has gone at least as fast as in D&D, despite the players needing the learn the quirks of the new system. Note that that's...

Not at all. I'll probably try a 4e campaign, which obviously wouldn't happen if it wasn't released. :D No. I'm not actually sure where any of our ongoing campaigns will be when the 4e core comes out. No chance whatsoever. My group doesn't play just one system or one campaign. Most of...

Here's the thing, though. D&D is not like GURPS or HERO. It's not a generic game by any stretch of the imagination. At least in the incarnations its had from AD&D to present, it's done a narrow subset of fantasy passably, and one specific subset extremely well: D&D. In my opinion, D&D would...

Despite the fact that a significant majority of the non-D&D RPGs on the market today, including those produced by what by all accounts the second- or third- most successful company in the industry, White Wolf, have rather extensive roleplaying advice and make it one of their main selling points...