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Uno Reverse! All features should be available to all characters. A feature's cost to take though depends on your class. Fighters can buy martial skills at cost, but it costs a greater amount to buy magical or skill expert abilities. You can then layer on prestige abilities that cost higher for...

Tried it. The Squishies didn't make it one round and the fighters duked it out for a couple. The barbarian won because of high HP and rage resistance.

You get the opposite effect: rocket tag where the fight is settled by the initiative die because the antagonist has enough damage to drop a PC in one round, but they themselves are dropped in one. The flight becomes win initiative and nova. If you want every fight to be a samurai iaijutsu duel...

Id argue that most classic warlock style patrons are antagonistic with their antihero contractors. Spawn is made a servant of Malbolge,, but realizing he's been lied to, uses his own hellfire to stop him. John Constantine is always pissing off the Devil, and when Mephisto gave Johnny Blaze the...

Still a better precedent than something like MultiVerses

A satisfying encounter. PCs are built with three conceits in mind: * They can do tremendous nova damage if they use all their power at once. " They don't have as many hp as monsters and have to rely on healing and AC to even the odds * They are built for multiple encounters with rests in...

It SHOULDN'T be normal. But personal experiences and whole subreddits full of DM horror stories that say it's less uncommon than it should be. And frankly, I feel the movement from DMs having mechanical justification to screw with their players (ie classes where role-play can have mechanical...

There are three ways I explain the differences: 1. Good enough. NPCs like the assassin or tribal warrior look enough like a rogue or barbarian to fill that niche. It's not 1:1, but it's close enough that trying for greater accuracy will break balance or simplicity. 2. Departmentalization: PC...

You are missing out on a goldmine of great OSR material, but you do you.

Most PCs are built as glass canons. High nova potential, but not enough defense. Great if the goal is to take as many people out with you when you drop, but really terrible if attrition is remotely a concept.

And that finds the crux of my argument. Sure, a DM could have Asmodeus remove a rebellious warlocks powers, but the DM could just have him show up in all his CR 30 glory and slaughter the warlock and anyone who gets in his way just as easily. To me, there is no difference in these two outcomes...

I'm guessing you don't support any small publishers who only sell online or via PDF.

I crossed out the parts I couldn't care less about in the DMG and decided I'd rather have 20 species over subraces (half of them would just be elves anyways)

Exactly

BECMI had 12 wizard and 8 cleric per level (druid got all cleric plus 4 unique druid per level).

No. I have a simple credo about my PCs: I control what they say and do. Not the DM. I dislike abilities that force my PC to act in ways contrary to how they would otherwise (barring literal mind control) and I don't like DMs who threaten to remove my class if I don't behave the way they think I...

My issue is that a cleric (warlock, paladin, druid, ranger, etc) gets a supernatural sugar daddy who the DM can use to bludgeon you with by destroying your character. For example: Fiend patron: warlock! The paladin in your party has insulted me. Kill him! Warlock: what? I won't do that...

You're not the seventh son of a seventh son, you were not born under the dark moon, you aren't part of the ancient bloodline, yada yada yada. Seriously, your convincing me that either there is nobody with unique abilities OR I don't believe you don't allow everything goes. So every assassin...

I'm far better with that sort of give and take over the "do what I say or you lose your class abilities".

The answer is None. So we are arbitrarily punishing some classes and not others. You want to revamp the classes so that every fighter is a vassal for his Lord, every rogue gives a cut to the local thieves guild, or every bard is under contract from her manager, I'll buy the whole God...