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My main point is when players straight out say stuff, not having foes magically know what they used up.

Have a monster or two make decent saving throw rolls and suddenly the party is screwed. You can potentially nuke foes but a couple good saves and you have nothing left.

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Simple question, not sure what the simple answer is. Players talking, CONSTANTLY. One of the most common conversations is players announcing when their character is out of juice after a particular fight. It is quite common for the cleric to say they are out of healing, the wizard or sorcerer...

Goes both ways though, it is also IMHO a dick move to have your party shoot its entire load in the first battle then cry ceaselessly when you do not let them immediately get a long rest and dare to attack them again. Heck, you blast off three Shatter spells and EVERYONE knows about you.

Interesting idea, but would you also include the straight Wizard, whose primary is Intelligence and his secondary is Intelligence? He is just the stereotypical wizard. If yes then you are talking about 36 classes and subclasses in total. Can you make them all distinct enough for people to care?

I am not trying to callback to anything. I never played any 4E, tried to read some of it but could not get interested. My whole goal was to spread out usage of the ability scores. Right now things break down with Strength being the primary for two or three classes, Con is the primary for none...

I think it is just simply the fact that nothing has even 5% of the name recognition that DnD has. Even people who know nothing about game, know no gamers, and would never play a RPG will tell you DnD is that game nerds play.

Only in a very narrow segment of the game related to NPC initial reaction to player and at really high scores (deity level) to have fanatical followers. Once the swords and spells came out in the dungeon your Charisma score didnt do diddly.

If you do that then why bother to have ability scores at all? As an extension of your argument the strong gorgeous dumb as a rock guy should be a different but equally powerful wizard as the high intelligence wizard. Sorry that is just not how things work, create a system that makes it work and...

That was my other thought but it would take a lot more work to put in a single post and would require as much or more work to implement. Barbarian would mean constitution and then the two to four subclasses that are based off a second stat.

No I dont, I am just pointing out that gypsies and travellers are generally hated by pretty much everyone else and there is no reason this would not play out in a DnD campaign. The one example in DnD is the Vistani and the base description of them basically said they were universally hated and...

Currently the way character classes are is rather ad-hoc. There is no desire to balance the classes between the stats which purely in my opinion is a mistake. Charisma has gone from being pretty close to pointless in 1E to be the incredibly inportant in 5E. This is just for fun, this is not an...

Your creating a gypsy, or whatever the nomadic gypsies that prance around squatting on everyone elses land in England are called. If everyone in the party is from the same band then communicating with each other is normal conversation. It is when you talk to most NPCs that you will have...

Ughhh, those novels were even worse. I did not think it possible to power creep and fanboi bigger than a Drizzt novel and then I read a Liriel novel. "Hey look I am such an awesome author that I created a drow wizard with a Wand of Lichdom!"

Just what I want a chance to be zero level in 1e and aspire to having 1D4 hitpoints plus con and cast a single spell once per day.

Especially when you murder, I mean streamline out all the other worlds novels/modules/etc could be set in.

To me the best option is a compromise. On Day One of every new campaign, and repeated every time a new player joins a group. "Foes you try to make dead will hold a grudge, in fact they may do the very same to you and try to make you dead, I said DEAD not unconscious, please consider your...

True Fact, Senator Palpatine was a warm and wonderful guy ready to save the Republic with love and flowers, then one dark day he sat down and binge read every single Salvatore Drizzt novel. After that the Republic was doomed.

I dont like the idea of having to tell players that things they are trying to make dead will try to make them dead in return. It does make me want to have a villain that studies the PCs and during some battle looks over at the cleric and with a smile says "Oh yes, you are the healer, I have...