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OBJECTION! Yes, I think there should be racial limits on classes and multiclasses. Maybe not as restrictive as AD&D's, or as nonsensical and counterproductive as 3.X's, but non-human races should have things that they are better at or worse at than humans... and that should be reflected somehow...

I don't have a problem with "Big Dumb Fighter" coming up with brilliant small unit tactics. He's got an Intelligence score of what, 8 or 10? Wolves have an Intelligence score of two.

I would allow it. But as a conscious playstyle goal, I try not to run the kind of game in which this seems like a good idea. You can summon the monsters and you can fight them for XP-- but you only get XP for encounters if they're legitimately challenging or dangerous for you. Since the...

Saving throws would be better if they depended on some innate quality of the character to determine the probabilities-- and if the chances of success improved every time you rolled one. It's frustrating being stuck unable to do anything, but if the odds of the saving throw mean something and...

I don't like Vancian, but it should still be an option. Big thing is that Vancian casters should have a goodly supply of at-will options that they don't have to prepare-- everyone should have something they can contribute to the majority of situations.

Multiclassing is absolutely imperative. I never played a single-class character-- not once-- until 3rd edition, and in 3rd edition I never stayed single-class for long. To contrast with the other posters in this thread, however, I would say that 3.X's multiclassing system was actually it's...

I like increasing ability scores. While it's true that no amount of training can make a human being capable of dead-lifting a ton... it's also true that no amount of training can make a human being capable of a thirty foot standing broad jump or swimming upstream in full plate armor. Those are...

I still want race-as-class back, combined with an AD&D-style multiclassing system. So if a Human Fighter is just a Fighter, but an Elf Fighter is an Elf/Fighter.

Gotta spread some XP around before I can hit you up again. Bring it on, Barbie; do your worst. :D

If you're looking for point-to-point teleportation, all you need is teleportation circle (Sor/Wiz 9, Witch 9, Rune 9, Sum 6) and a permanency spell. That creates a permanent point A to point B portal for 23,500 gp. If you want point B to point A, you have to pay another 23,500 gp to put another...

You want to see it done really well? Go check out the beta playtest edition of Novus and the first three issues of Libram Novus. Check out the beta playtest forums. That's how the game's going to work when it's finished-- all of the future rules expansions are going to be in those little two...

That's fine, but it's a House Rule and one I do not recommend. I'll mention it in next month's column.

I'm a toolkit guy. I'm going to compulsively vivisect the system anyway; the game has more value to me if her organs are already clearly labelled when I open her up. But I'll agree with what others have said-- start with the simplest possible baseline system, and then add optional rules modules...

I don't like Vancian. Never have, and I only played spellcasters rarely before 3.X; given my druthers, I'd rather see spellcasters work like a combination of Warlock/Dragonfire Adept and 3.X psionics.

That is a good catch, and it could indeed be interpreted that way. I've always read that rule to mean that there is a command word to activate the weapon and a second command word to deactivate the weapon-- and thus that the weapon can have multiple elemental enchantments active at a time, as...

You want my D&D dream team? Paizo and Evil Hat form a partnership and hire Monte Cook and Tim Dugger for their experience with truly modular game design and multiple variations of D&D-style adventure fantasy.

I'm just glad to see that it isn't just me-- I thought I'd done something wrong and had my XP privileges revoked.

You are the second person to tell me that-- I'm going to address it in next month's column-- but I can not find a single piece of evidence to suggest that it's true. There is no such rule in the weapon enhancement descriptions in the d20PFSRD, the Hypertext d20 SRD, in my second printing copy of...

We'll just see about that! As far as 5e being OGL, I think it would be tremendously good for Wizards, like it was tremendously good for them with 3e and it has been tremendously good for Paizo, and it would be tremendously good for both the community and the industry as a whole. It's really the...

I'm only going to be taking forum questions when my email inbox is short-- and I've obtained permission from a few other forums to take questions from their forums as well. So the column should be more useful next time around, and for the future in general.