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That's partly because power levels aren't assessed in isolation. In 3.5 if you wanted to take out a 20' radius worth of enemies you'd probably cast Stinking Cloud. No spell resistance applied (unlike Fireball) and the enemies would lose all their actions except a single basic move for as long as...

Illusionists get decent stuff. Minor illusion as a bonus at 3 is genuinely good and two free summons per day is ... worse than morphing illusions but a decent bridge.

Pyrokinetic would be the obvious

Yeah, I'm on the same page. I think that Daggerheart does 5e better for most tables than 5e but I don't think that's where its strength truly lies. Instead I think that it's an excellent gameplay engine for heroic games in just about any setting. It's not the tight We Are Doing This of e.g. a...

I assume it means it took a beating for breaking certain playstyles and is being dropped.

The problem with wanting to "unspookify psionics" is that being spooky is why telepaths (in specific) attached to the Far Realm work well. Once you are a mind reader with any sort of mind control you're inherently creepy. And removing the spooky elements doesn't make them less creepy, it just...

I can't agree here; oD&D is primitive, not sloppy. Gygax and Arneson were working out things as they went and it shows. (It's also unclear). You need to wait for AD&D before the subsystems multiplied and the design got sloppy.

I'm going to say "people are playing different games at the same table and all playing the games they like and interacting with each other" is a strength of a good class based system. And that it's something I get from both oD&D and Apocalypse World and other good PbtA games (and Smallville).

So if we're running a 60 session campaign with the same characters I need there to be character growth and progression. Which means either I want a skill based system or at least ten levels if we're using a level based system. And I'm ruling out most PbtA and FitD games here and Fate as although...

I have never seen why classes can't flex anyway (especially between the dump stat choices) - warlocks I think should be Int or Cha. For that matter I'd argue for flexing sorcerers for Cha or Str.

By the time you hit 2e, no. But there absolutely 100% was a functional difference between what oD&D called a Referee and a Storyteller. A Storyteller did not share authority over the PCs with other random groups in a West Marches style game. Things had changed. PbtA changes them differently but...

Charisma isn't the same as Comeliness. The Mule is 100% charismatic and compelling even if ugly. And beholders are Charisma 17.

This is an easily overlooked benefit of the wizard. Intelligence is a great skills-stat and Investigation is IME the second most important skill in the game (only behind Perception) while Arcana is a good candidate for third. And 2024 wizards both have their primary stat supporting them (when no...

Most generic games I can think of, like GURPS or Fate, are clear products of a worldview and are because of that actually decently thematic. It's why people used to joke you could play GURPS in any setting but you'd still be playing GURPS.

You are aware that the College of Whispers bard is a full cater with no ability with poison? So that couldn't have been what he meant And that every bard from Dark Sun was psionic primarily because every character from Dark Sun was psionic? Which means that absent poison (and it is absent) what...

Throw the druid and in many cases the warlock on that pile of classes that are good at exploring.

The claim it's "got nothing to do with psionics except doing some psychic damage" is not a fact, it's at best an interpretation. When you have a spell list that contains such things as Message, Vicious Mockery, Dissonant Whispers, Command, Detect Emotions, and Calm Thoughts you are bordering on...

I'm playing one now. And you might be seeing a "wizard extinction event" at your table - but as of 2023 (the most recent year I have data for) the wizard was the fourth most popular class and the most popular spellcaster. It used to be joked for good reason that "It's called Wizards of the Coast...