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I agree with most of your post, but wanted to point out just one thing: you can't saute an Alarm spell in butter. :P

I'm not Pemerton, but I can answer for this myself: The wizard shouldn't run out of wizard. The thing I liked least about 1st & 2nd edition was the fact that a low-level wizard was only a wizard a certain number of times per day. I'm not saying they should be slinging high-power (or even...

The whole point is that strawberry *shouldn't* be the official flavor. There shouldn't be one at all--rather, a palette of examples and the tools to create your own.

They amount to a built-in crossbow. If you consider that overpowered, I'd hate to see what you think of fighter attack bonuses and maneuvers. Also, sneering about how someone else's playstyle is "entitled" is itself the embodiment of entitlement--you seem to think yours is the One True Way...

Done correctly, this would also put down CoDzilla. Of course, the heavily armored fighting priest is probably too precious a sacred cow for some people....

Lemon Curry. I care about it to the exact extent that it is not mandatory--that it either is not default or easily removed with zero consequences. Wiring the Great Wheel into the mechanics is a no-go for me. One of the things that bugged me about 3.X was the fact that things like alignment and...

But can't handle Bluto nearly as well. :P

Bringing the retraining rules....

Ooh, can I try? Za Warudo You may use Time Stop once per rest as a spell-like ability. Now I just need one for infinite knives, and I'm set.

A fair argument for alter self, at least. The problem with polymorph, though, is that the older versions of the Polymorph spells were all-too-often used to make the caster into a better fighter than the fighter (at little or no additional cost to the caster). That said, there *should* be some...

My wish fix: you can cast it once, then that version stops working for you. To cast it again, you have to find a new version (there are an arbitrary number), or research a new version.

Time spent creating background and story hooks, rather than generating NPCs. It's a lot quicker and cleaner to write "village blacksmith, mediocre skill" than go through the motions of generating a level 1 or two "expert" NPC, and the long-winded version is almost never worth the effort--the...

Bah. It's not over until someone Godwins. :p

I meant competency as in dungeon-crawling/adventuring competency. You know, the core point of the game? You shouldn't have to give that up for your character to sing better than average--nonadventuring skills should *not* come out of the same pool you use for your adventuring skills.

No on most of those. I shouldn't have to give up competence to sing well. Perhaps disguise should be an aspect of bluff or deception (or whatever they end up calling it), and forgery should be another use of sleight of hand.

How about "Battle Mastery" dice? Shorter and keeps the idea that the fighter is the master of combat and not "just a little better" than others.

I think that's the problem here. The fighter shouldn't be just some shmuck with a sword, but as much of a hero (anti-hero, villain, whatever) as any other class. The fighter shouldn't just be defined by a better attack bonus and damage rating, but by options, techniques, and fighting style that...

Abominations from the perspective of their human enemies, perhaps. Sent from my A200 using Tapatalk 2

The Warlock class description pretty much makes it clear that the source need not be evil. In fact, the first pact they show is not. Further, even a Warlock with an evil pact could be repentant. As for Sorcerors, you can either try to keep it hidden/pretend to be a mage, or maybe instead come...

Confound that 1E D&D, with it's low-level monsters with immunity to non-magical weapons! More seriously, wealth by level was there from the beginning--it was only formalized by 3E. Before that, you had to more-or-less guess.