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What is the obligations for being a sorcerer? A bard? A wizard? Why do those classes get their power duty free? What responsibilities do monks and barbarians have? Why do some classes get micromanaged by the DM and others can thumb their noses and keep their powers.

Add to the fact that their actual bard abilities took 1 minute of prep to use and came with enough caveats and provisos that you would think it was an Act of Congress, you has a class that was far better on paper than in practice. The best trick was to treat them as a slightly beefier magic...

Honestly, I hate having certain classes having "mommy may I" mechanics and not others. If you had it where every class had some way to lose their powers, I'd be ok with it, but the fact Bobby Bard can heal almost as good as Cindy Cleric and she has to walk on eggshells or else sky daddy will...

This was less of a problem in both Basic and 2e, (at least at first) as the PHB or red box was at least internally consistent with itself. The 1e PHB doesn't make it out the gate without telling you to forget things you just read 5 pages ago...

Patron, like deities or other supernatural sugar-parents, work best when there is an explicit expectation between the player and the DM as to the level of micromanaging the entity will do. I don't feel this should be set by the rules. There is interesting stories of rebellious warlocks turning...

Ac fate worse than death

On a related to the OP note, considering how perfectly playable the The Strategic Review bard was, the fact the PHB bard was turned into a disaster of mechanics is a travesty. Most of the other classes in the PHB work fine inside the confines of rest of the game, but bard and monk aren't just...

Clearly you never heard of the famous bard James Brown? That bard had soul, brother...

Degree is a factor, but I can argue that even a local military could have specialized techniques they learned for specific situations. For example, the the Borderwatch guards frequently fight against orc raiders on hogback, they may gain abilities that give them advantage vs orcs and to dismount...

First, bold to assume all possible factions or cultures are available, or you would gain the features of them. For example, you can claim heritage from a Vistani tribe, but you will never gain the same prophecy or Evil Eye abilities NPC Vistani have. You can try to emulate them with spells, but...

$150 is already a steep buy in for DMs. You're shooting for $200 plus?

Bold is emphasis. A drow can be a unique cleric of Lolth that has abilities a PC cleric wouldn't have. I have no problem extending that logic to other classes. An elf swordsman who dedicated 200 years to the art of the blade can do things a PC elf isn't able to do. The assassins of the...

Bullocks. I've seen 5e players expend every resource and lose and I've seen AD&D fighters solo dragons. The only time I see OS players too weak to muscle though is if the DM is gimping them or you are playing Basic Red Box RAW. Again, I won't argue modern PCs aren't more powerful, but I don't...

I beg to disagree. At levels 1-4 I will admit that OS PCs are far weaker than their modern counterparts, but come about 5th level OS players usually have enough power to start muscling though any reasonable challenges. Magic items, better gear, and third level spells usually start evening the...

Never really liked her. She felt very tryhard. I didn't mind she was a woman in gamer space or used her sexuality to gain fans, but I never shook the feeling she was in it for the wrong reasons. When all the stuff broke about her and her husband, I can't say I was surprised. Did she ever...

I find this notion of OS players needing to be creative and clever while modern players just spam widgets to be a bunch of grognards getting high off their own farts. Modern D&D can be creative and encourage clever play while old school players can stand around lost in a room trying to find a...

The issue of course was that the spells were often not placed correctly in relation to class access, creating things like druids losing access to reincarnate while clerics gained it. In fact, you could design specialty priests who lacked many of the fundamental spells to even do their job...

I'm fascinated with this. There is no ability an NPC can have that a PC cannot? No Vistani with the gift of plot device prophecy, no dragonslayer or witch finder with abilities to hunt certain monsters at the cost of others? All offshoot subraces (drow, derro or Cynidicean) must be PC options...

It's basically this. You can make a thousand D&D clones with different names and have each one play differently from D&D and people will love them all, but make one of those clones the "official" D&D game and people will cry bloody murder about the changes to the mechanics, tone, feel, and...