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And technically, an evocation is a ritual whereby the Roman leader of a besieging army would "call out" the gods of the besieged city by offering them a nicer temple in Rome. Nota bene: Such etymological discussions don't make sense. Words change their meaning all the time.

Deliberation with the group is superior. Not only for combat and adventure roles, but also for character motivations and backgrounds. In fact, if you want a certain degree of antagonism in the party you should talk about before. Same for romance etc.

Too little too late. To make that work, it must work right from the start.

The problem is: Those are only words, not design. The standard method of game design is making people do what you want them to, by making them "win" in the process. If you want people to make their own prestige classes, offer a procedure to do so. Not finished results, except for an example or...

That is pretty much the standard definition. The basic set-up is: Vassal offers military power and is granted some means of production to exploit. You can work from that, to make rather unusual arrangements. For example in Cadwallon RPG, in exchange for fealty in times of war, the "knights" get...

They were not identified at all. They were defined. Of course, then, you can do things differently. The four roles in 4e are, as you point out, very broad. If you look at typical Leader abilities there is healing, buffs, extra movement, extra attacks. Furthermore the Controller is weakly...

No. If you can choose were to apply a bonus that is always more effective than increasing everything equally. So +1 to all is worse than +6 free.

The best would be romance between PCs. If that is not possible, make another player play the romantic interest NPC. Otherwise it's just waiting time for everyone else.

I'd go with Fate Accelerated.

Unless they changed that again. ;) To stealth in combat: - You must have a condition that allows making a Stealth check, like being in the dark, or hiding behind allies, if you are a halfling. - Then you take an action. If you are a rogue you can use your extra action for that. - Then you roll...

Played a game with Flumph PCs. A short session of world exploration with a very weird perspective. The players went wild on making theories about how those strange two-legged creatures worked. They lawfully-goodly ate an unrepentant Illithid (and his psionic cristalls, because cristalls), and...

Go on an archeological dig with your teachers. Fetch water from nearby river. Return to find them murdered. You are five days from the next small village. Have fun. Travel with your mentor. When your mentor's allies turn in to take her on a save the world mission, you are tasked to deliver...

There are few more possiblities. Imagine your action as a player and what happens in the fiction. A) You can act as a player and the same action happens in the fiction. Like you speak louder to have your character to speak louder. B) You can act as a player, and something that is dependent on...

Tying the concept to character classes incurs the following problems: - You cannot have Niche Protection, if you have two members of the same class. Which is obviously not the case. You can have characters with the same class that are very different. - If two different classes use different...

OK. Let's get a few steps back. What is this about? Niche Protection. What is niche protection? Niche Protection is an indirect form of Spotlight Management. What is Spotlight Management? Spotlight Management is the idea that each character should shine once in a while and how we can make sure...

But "divine magic" and "arcane magic" have no meaning by themselves. What does divine magic do? Maybe you have played the game for too long, so you don't notice. Think about it: "The Incarnate is best at Incarnate Meldshaping, the Totemist is best at Totemist Meldshaping. Other characters might...

The character I played for the longest time collected magic shields. She had a whole trophy room. My current character maps ancient evils. Those are not nieches. It's not automatically a niche if your character can do, regularly does it or likes doing it. Even if your cleric can restorate (is...

In that case you have a tautology: A cleric is a cleric. That doesn't answer anything. @sheadunne : Yes. Uphtread, someone compared the Cleric and Artificer in 4e who behave in such a similar manner. Both do the healing but there are certain conditions where one is preferable.

You say "should". You might certainly have that opinion. It is not how DnD works. For this to work, there cannot be choice within character classes. There can also only be very few classes, because otherwise you cannot determine niches a priori. You might want to be the Cleric the best...

That is apparently what most people here are trying to use. We see the following problems: It doesn't quite work, if there is customisation besides or within classes. If my class could learn a spell but my character didn't, going by your definition, I play the game wrong, because I am supppsed...