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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4372702" data-attributes="member: 114">I would have a much smaller list than you of things that I think REALLY needed to be fixed.For my money it would be:Change everything which cause knock-on recalculation. Anything which increases or decreases an ability score means that tons of other stuff gets recalculated (saves, skills, attacks...). This ripple-through effect could be a pain to manage. Probable solution? Make everything give a primary benefit directly, rather than a knock on effect (e.g. "Bulls strength gives +2 hit and damage and skill checks" or something similar)Eliminate stacking problems. Stacking of multiple overlapping and additive bonuses is a pain to keep track of, especially at higher levels when things get shuffled around during the combat. e.g. the prayer always works (except for the guy who has the luckstone), the bless doesn't have any effect at the moment because the bard is singing, but 5r after he stops singing it will give a benefit, the magic circle against evil is giving everyone +2 ST and +2 AC except for those two guys who already have +3 cloaks and that chap who has a +2 ring; the guy with a dozen magic effects on him and 6 of them are taken off by dispel magic etc. etc.Individually they are small bonuses and would be easy to add up, but the dynamic way they interact and change throughout a melee was a pain - and the reason why all our DMs used electronic tools to support their game.Caster Multiclass problemsPartially solved via prestige class solutions, but that was really a patch - a complete solution would have been better (some have been suggested up-thread)Full attacks encouraged static combatHigh level fighter types could churn out the damage if they stood still and did full attacks - often far more than the wizards could do to a single target - but it tended to mean that most fights devolved into 'move to nearest target - full attack until dead - move to next target".Non-spellcasters lacked interesting optionsThe one time I played a basic fighter rather than a class with some casting ability, I found it quite frustrating that I had very few real options. I could attack things with my sword, or use a missile weapon, and had a few 'tactical' options (grapple, disarm, trip etc), but many of those were not much actual use. The caster classes (even the partial caster classes) had interesting additional options both inside and outside combat.There are plenty of little 'flavour' things which I would have liked to see changed (or even reverted from 3.5 to 3.0 style), but the above are the only things that I thought could really do with being addressed.Cheers</blockquote>

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