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Exactly. 1e moved away from it with Unearthed Arcana (more classes, more options, etc.) 2e moved away from it with Skills & Powers (classes became largely footnotes on the character) 3e moved away from it with 66 base classes and hundreds of prestige classes (many of which were designed to blur...

No. I meant what I said. Perhaps to clarify, D&D has always begun with rigid class roles. I pointed out this trend during late 2e (even Unearthed Arcana did it to some extent in 1e) which (I believe) contributed to a transition into 3e. This is true to a point...you CAN by taking sub-par...

Gotcha...That works. Easy to remember...of course, I think that the -2 per range increment makes perfect sense. DC

QFT - no fanboy or flamer worth his salt would stop playtesting that quickly. Heck. I would playtest a WoD game for at least 2 sessions and I intensely dislike every story / game background (if not mechanics and concept) that White Wolf has ever put out. DC Correction, the revised Mummy: The...

It was, I suppose, exactly that. In response to the "how can I know?" Obviously, I can't. I have only my experiences and opinions (like everyone here). My experience playing in 1e (starting at 10 years old), 2e, 2e (S&P), 3.0, and 3.5 and noting that the things that people at the local hobby...

Hmmm...how to say this without sounding like I'm attacking a point of view...heck I'll just dive in. D&D is, and always has been, a game of strict roles. From its origins where you were a fighting man, a magic user, a thief, or (later) an elf or a dwarf, you choose an archetype and ran with it...

I honestly can't say with what you've provided, having not played SAGA. Are you saying that ability modifiers run +/- 1, 2, 5, or 10? or are your referring to some other modifiers? DC

No does WotC believe that...if they did, they would not release the SRD and they would not allow 3rd party publications. Heck, even within the company, the core mythology, cosmology, and even race structure is not going to be universal. Eberron will remain Eberron even as it shifts to 4e (I've...

Thank you! QFT Honestly, the complaints about the fluff seem....reactionary and premature. 3e used functional names far more often than not and still ended up with feats that were confusing and left questions as to what they do (my players have never gotten their heads around Extend Spell...

Cool. Thanks for the link!

Huh...I'd heard that they were advancing Eberron's timeline by 2 years. Is there a specific source otherwise? DC

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So the measure of an effective edition change is the ability to convert a highly specialized campaign (which relies upon Stormwrack and a number of other rules that were not released in the initial versions of the current rules)? Wow! This is quite the impossible bar. I have a campaign that I...

And, honestly, you created a ton of house rules--many of which appear to fix peeves you may have with the game but not one other person at the table may have actually been all that concerned about--and dropped them all at once. They don't appear to be campaign related but rather "things I don't...

Geneticist as a manipulator of living creatures (mutations and whatnot) strikes me more as a Transmuter than a necromancer. Just my .02 DC

Right...there was a reference before to the fact that the psionics rules are being created in tandem with the PHBI rules but that they were holding off on the release. This tandem creation should help make sure that they are better integrated into the system as a whole. The idea of psychic...

Moooo. I believe Mr. Tweet was attacked by a sacred cow in the process of 3e. I like Kamakazi's ideas above. I think all of these would be cool (but I also agree that no familiar should be required ). DC

avasculate and avascular mass just for the gross factor

Don't worry. It's only for Eberron and the 13th side has vanished...so really it is a 12-sided for all intents and purposes. DC

Okay, starting from the point of not agreeing with the prevalent idea that 3e multiclassing was useless (even for spellcasters), I would like to contribute. I don't think it is quite so binary and the current rules reinforce this. In many ways, a fighter 3 / ranger 4 is a better ranger than a...