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Of course, any change within a given campaign is fine and up to the DM and players If you believe (as I do) that the reason that fighters and rogues are balanced with each other is because fighters gain more feats and rogues more skills then making a rogue's skills more versatile upsets this...

Huh...so rogues just went from 8+ skill points per level to 12+ skill points per level....rangers went up by 4 also. when you combine skills, you either need to reduce the number of SP or realize that you are making skill based characters more powerful (perhaps substantially). Personally, I...

Do you mean fractional or decimal? Like where a fighter gains 1.0 per level, a cleric .75, and a wizard .5, so that a 3rd level character with 1 level in each would have a BAB of 2.25 (or 2) rather than 1? DC

Never attempted it...this actually raises the question of any symbiotic sort of character. Really, this character has virtual immortality: if its current host is troublesome or dies, it just goes to another. Plus, it is likely to have a vast range of knowledge and experience that would be out of...

Proud to be one of the 148 (on both ends) That's all I'm gonna say.... that and South Park was soooooo right. DC

Right...like Heal and Sense Motive. We can call it Empathy :lol: I don't think using the same ability score is a valid reason for combining. The skills should have something in common other than using major muscle groups (or relying upon your "insight"). Athletics would annoy the heck out of...

Sorry...you're right So, a fighter 8, wizard 1 has 4/3/2/1 spell slots per day (not including bonus for ability or specialization) and a caster level of 5. His max spell level is 1st though. so is 2nd and 3rd level spells can be used to prepare cantrips and 1st levels (or use metamagic feats)...

I allow the 1/2 of other levels toward the spell casting class but not for all features. Their caster level and spells per day increase but not their spells known / maximum spells. This requires adding in 1 feature not already included (max level). So, a fighter 8, wizard 1 has 4/3/2/1 spell...

I strongly disagree. From a DM / Player perspective this can be frustrating. In FR for example, if I buy the Cormyr campaign book, I'm left with a peasants-eye view of the world where Cormyr is the only thing that affects Cormyr, which even in a POL situation is not true. Change travels, just...

Well, that would depend entirely upon what "powers" we are talking about. If a fighter's powers are equivalent to cleave, sunder, whirlwind, shield bash, improved shield bash, overrun, improved grapple, improved trip, improved disarm, and then an assortment of dramatic (but clearly not magical)...

I actually agree with you're whole post except this last part. I think the fact that the rules communicate "with more certainty" with each other will make it easier to see the effects of your changes. Since, all characters have a similar baseline (BAB, Defenses), we can see immediately what...

Way too convoluted, IMO I think that it will be 60-80% talents (cantrips and reserve feats) which are divided between at will (light, detect magic, magic missile) and per encounter (burning hands, invisibility). Then there will be spells. These are prepared in advance and do more impressive or...

Interestingly, the cover of the 4e players handbook (http://www.enworld.org/images/4e/phb.jpg) says Player's Handbook: Arcane, Divine, and Martial Heroes While this may seem obvious, I would expect that the bard, if it ever comes along, would need to come along with a new power source (or in...

And apparently undermines your initial point. 4e will be no less capable of this than any edition and may, in fact, be more capable of it than 3e. If, in 4e, you decide that there are no magical items, then there won't be but from the current info released, you will still have a playable game...

IMO, this is a good thing. The Bo9S characters I've DMed for haven't slowed things down any, nor have the existence of immediate spells / powers. Why? Because each player is constantly paying attention to the flow of battle to see if there is something his / her character can do to affect the...

Honestly, what purpose would this have had? How do these limits make things more fun for anyone? I can say that it was the most frustrating, and immediately changed, aspects of 1 and 2e for me. It fell into the same category as sex-linked ability scores. Perhaps it is realistic, but does it...

Huh...I guess you never owned the FR boxed set and later books, the Dark Sun Boxed Set (and later books, which completely revamped every race and class), The Greyhawk boxed set... The FR and GH boxed sets didn't rewrite the classes in the same way that DS did but they still added a diverse...

One huge problem with your example is that players don't roll saves in 4e. They are static defenses. Also, as others have pointed out, this still happens and for the same reasons. "Oh, wait, I'm a Scout and moved more than 10 feet this round so add 2 to that AC...and that also put me in range...

Well it appears at least for special abilities, each class will use their best stat. So wizard attacks with dagger: probably strength Wizard attacks with magic missile: probably intelligence Warlock attacks with eldritch blast: probably charisma Rogue uses a sneak attack: probably dexterity DC

*blech* darn hobbits. why not put them in forests and call them nelwyn or peck? halflings are not hobbits and the aren't the star of Willow. give me rivers! DC