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This is not a thread for rules we want taken out or rules we want put in. This is most especially not a thread for bitching, about either the rules that are in the game, or the rules that we want to be in the game. This is a thread for tweaks-- minor changes to things that are already in the...

Nothing wrong with either concept, except one of them is delusional. Slayer Archer who never misses doesn't miss. Slayer Swordsman who never loses just never met someone who could hit harder.

I don't mind low-level D&D being gritty as long as people stop trying to make high-level D&D gritty-- in worlds that were clearly not designed that way. If my PC is the same level as the authors' pets, my PC should be as important and powerful as the authors' pets if not moreso.

Getting a re-roll on 5% of your weapon attacks at random? I suppose it's better than Diligent, but not by much.

Yeah, I can't agree with the OP. The endgame in Classic was divine ascension. That means that from 1st to 36th level, your character transitioned from a special hero-- head and shoulders above the common man whether or not he could survive a deadly duel with the neighbor's cat-- to the...

Everything that inflicts HP damage involves some form of physical harm to the body. Your HP total (and now your Hit Dice) represents the reservoir of Positive Energy your body is capable of containing at once. Fighters have high HP because they are healthy and physically active. Wizards have...

I think spells that create physical energy effects that attack the victim's body should absolutely target AC. Plate mail absorbs and diffuses the heat from the burning ray so that it doesn't burn your precious pink skin. I don't understand why the game designers ever decided otherwise.

DO WANT: Flat Math DO NOT WANT: Capped and/or Flat Ability Scores Wizard 20 tells laws of physics to sit in corner, cry some more. That should take more than 20 INT. And Fighter 20 should be able to catch giant boulders and throw them back.

I hope it stays the same. The only thing I want to change is forcing the Wizard to make an attack roll for all of his attack spells (including that magic missile), so that getting drunk before every combat isn't an optimal strategy for him, and granting all incoming attacks advantage so that the...

It's a fair point that the Pelorite isn't a heavy armor templar, and thus could be excused for being a spellslinger instead of a headbreaker in combat.

I apologize for the broad brush. I've heard peanut butter is effective for removing unwarranted tar stains. Well, honestly, there's no difference between a failed attack roll and a successful saving throw-- so the insistence that Fighters aren't allowed to deal damage on the former, but...

I wouldn't say roles have been abandoned so much as loosened-- a Slayer Fighter is a Striker, while a Guardian Fighter is a Defender. The Cleric of Pelor is a Leader, while the Cleric of Moradin is a Leader/Defender. (Almost a Paladin.) The Rogue is a Striker and the Wizard is a Controller. So...

I like the way it works now and I don't want it replaced. There is also the principle of the matter that if we remove every mechanic that a vocal minority dislikes-- for reasons that have nothing to do with game balance and very little to do with verisimilitude-- we won't have a game left to...

Considering that I just used it as an example of dealing damage on a miss? It's obvious that that is exactly what I am saying. Probably, but a system like that just isn't compatible with the way D&D does combat. Shadowrun does that kind of armor pretty well. I think for an edition of the...

I would vastly prefer that Wizards release 5e under some kind of open license, but it isn't a "make or break" issue for me. It wasn't the OGL that created Pathfinder, it was abandoning the OGL-- and screwing Paizo over, whether intentionally or not-- that created Pathfinder. Pathfinder...

Con mod + 1/2 level sounds good to me. Maybe give him other mechanics that draw from this number, ki pool style.

Except that 14 damage on a critical 'hit' isn't even 'meaningful physical harm' to a character with more than 28 hit points-- meaning that this paradigm itself is nonsensical in relation to the hit point system. In that case, we are defining 'hit points' as a character's fighting capacity--...

I think Intoxicated is great and hope it doesn't change in the final rules, except that being intoxicated should also grant enemies Advantage in attacking you. That means getting drunk is a great strategy for getting into a bar brawl or for engaging in pest control, but a potentially deadly...

I would love to see stances and fighting styles as a Fighter class feature, in addition to multiple attacks and greater cleave at higher level.

I don't mind it as long as the setting is "big" enough for it. Something like Planescape or Spelljammer has plenty of room for dozens of races. Problem in more traditional settings is that you have the dozens of PC races, and then the dozens of humanoid monsters-- races in their own right-- and...