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I agree with all those who say "avoid radical change". That killed 4e and fractured the fanbase.

Insisting that despite the fact your character sucks, you're a real roleplayer and not one of those "cheating munchkins", forcing to me carry your worthless sack of garbage through the campaign. "But I'm a chef! I contribute!" you cry as you're eaten by hydras. Murdering the evil races...

I voted fighter. Low-level concept? Check. Poor execution? Check. Fanboys insistent that because they want to play an underpowered class, everyone else must suck? Check.

4e had terrible game balance -recall the Blade Cascade ranger, the Orbizard, the Slumber of the Winter Court neo-orbizard, and the infinite undead army cleric. Also, that's wizard. The more non-core stupid things you pile onto a wizard, the more broken it becomes. Wizard is bad. Anima Mage...

There's a thread on these boards which is criticizing those who have decided that 5e will be bad/uninteresting/whatever. So, in an attempt to head off criticism, here's why I have no faith 5e will be any good. 1)The complexity dial is a stupid idea, or poor design goals. There, I said it...

The wizard can have his own kingdom too, with armies of demons and undead. The wizard can ignore that little "free will" thing too. "The DM can boost the fighters" is not an answer.

The question I have is: Who cares? Whether or not the fighter gets multiple attacks does not fix the core of the fighter's problem: that it's an inherently low level concept which cannot compete with the divine avatars and archmages roaming the land at high levels. Fix THAT, then we can worry...

The easy way: Every race gets a racial power which matches the fluff. Orcs get berzerk, elves get accuracy, drow get darkness, tieflings can enchance an attack with hellfire, and so on. There are no ability score modifers to be seen, because that leads to idiot 4e things where the developers...

Does it actually hurt anyone if a dude plays a tiefling? No? He's going to have fun? Then just let him do it.

You know, the first one might not be a hoax. I mean, considering that the playtest followed their design principles but everyone hated it, isn't the assumption of damage control reasonable?

"Orb of Force?" This is the dread spell to be feared from power creep? Like the Spell Compendium Orb of Force?

I thought the mechanics from the last seminar were terrible and stupid. So you spend 5 minutes arguing with the DM that you should be able to use your Intelligence on every saving throw ever because you're a wizard, and unnamed :):):):):):):):) wizard magic has your back, while he's in the...

The alignment system.

Next PC: Evil goblin cleric.

Ninjas are cool and people want to write "ninja" on their character sheet.

Well, here's how I'd handle it. I'd have it be one guy who killed the demon and devil lords to unite all evil under one banner. In practice, there'd probably just be a lot of infighting until a new lord arose.

Duskblade Cleric Druid Barbarian Warblade (renamed "Fighter") Rogue Wizard Ranger Paladin Bard Ninja I'd also try to get in an assassin base class of some sort. I feel that there's enough demand for a warrior/wizard, necromancer, and assassin.

No. Because honestly, it's much, much worse for some guy to be a straight up worse character than "min-maxing" their stats, which are honestly not the big things to be worried about min-maxing.

But it IS the root of the problem and why when 4e promised "class balance", a lot of people listened.

Alright. I am currently laboring under the impression that the OP (and several other posters) have absolutely no idea what the hell a properly played caster in 3.5 can do. Let's just take a straight up wizard for now, if you'd like. The common example is fireball. This is widely regarded as...