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Each game you described through released its own core rule set(s) to achieve this. I really don't know what you feel you've demonstrated. And the fact that we can look forward to at least very different campaigns in the nearish future: Greyhawk (classic D&D fantasy), Forgotten Realms (anything...

Yeah...enforced balance. Uh oh, good is getting the upper hand...I'd better go rape and pillage now. 3e it was the way out of the lazy player who didn't want to be held accountable for alignment. I now await the explosion as the 2 people who "actually" played neutral for a reason other than...

Exactly. The big advantage to this is that you can control, moment to moment, the difficulty of the challenge without "punishing" the characters by withholding, removing, or f-ing with their magical items. One of the worst things, IMO, that 3e did was to attempt a parity between monsters and...

My read, and hope, is that alignment is now a supernatural thing reserved for followers of great entities (a warlock of the feywild might carry an aura of "chaoticness" while a cleric of bahamut might be infused with the goodness of his deity). Gods, immortals, demigods, etc will naturally be...

Who said stats are going up every other level? There is no indication I've seen to this effect. We know that certain bonuses (BAB and Defense) are increasing at that rate but the Spined Devil with a strength of 19 still has only a +4 to damage. DC

Let's not forget that smaller creatures tend to be disproportionately strong and resilient because their tissues are the same strength as larger creatures. This is a big part of why a fall from a 2 story house will not even phase a cat, could injure a human, but will likely kill a horse. Plus...

the rest of the school has probably been absorbed into rituals (Planar Binding) and the general "evocations" (Creation subschool). DC

Some truth here. Of course, from references made, 4e will be combining them. Not sure how that will be working. *shrug* Now that I don't know. I've never actually combined skills. I think the list is fine as is. My suggestions were just that...suggestions. I think that the short list does not...

I like the idea of them becoming gypsies like those found in Golden Compass, river people who wander the land throughout its waterways. This would be a perfect way for them to overcome the fact that they would naturally cover less ground than a larger "nomad" and helps distinguish them from...

How bout a half-elf diviner? What? :heh: DC

How bout ardent from complete psionic perhaps with some levels of favored soul to address more divine connection. Or an ardent / divine mind combo. The auras of the divine mind could easily be linked to chakras and she can skip the undead turning altogether. She'll have a fair array of powers...

They are different items altogether. A creature would (IIRC) gain the benefits of regeneration for any nonlethal damage taken from sources that don't cause actual harm while fast healing would restore the damage that did harm them. So in the case of the troll, anything other than fire and acid...

Ahhh...but you're missing the point of most of those combinations, which is to create skills that it makes sense for adventurers to take. Also, saying that they're separate things is of course true but so is hiding and moving silently. The idea is thematic link and usefulness to a character. I...

No I believe it is to represent how hard it is to remain effectively offensive when you raise your fists (with no specific training in using them) and your opponent raises a sword...or 3 inch claws...or a big mouth full of pointy teeth. And how hard it is to parry effectively (human instinct...

Here's a thought... Though this would require reducing skill points per level by about half. Acrobatics (Balance, Escape Artist, Tumble) Arcana (Knowledge (Arcana) + Spellcraft + Use Magic Device) Athletics (Climb, Jump, Swim) Craft (Appraise, Craft) Decipher Script (Decipher Script, Forgery)...

Until the discussion turns to transexual (people who feel that they are the wrong sex) and transgendered (people who feel the are the correct sex but reject their prescribed gender role). Just because a word was repurposed up to describe a new sort of conversation (Bulletin Board anyone?) does...

I agree with the danger of dessert and floorwax....I just don't feel that any of these fall into that category. If it was smite for extra damage and grant your ally +4 bonus to open locks, then I'd be concerned. But as the rest of my post noted... In each of the three examples, the paladin...

Yes. And I rolled my eyes just as vigorously then.

Huh...try this on: Each smite does not need to be a single thing nor is it necessarily cause / effect...it is an overall prayer or incantation but it is doing two things. Note that the protection happens Hit or Miss. The paladin is a woman of action and she asks for the blessing of her god to...

Not that BAB or XP penalties are the reason that 3e multiclassing was rough. It has always been all about the spells. There is little or no harm (and potential great benefit) to playing a fighter 1, barbarian 1, ranger 1, rogue 1. You actually come out nearly better than a level 4 in any one of...