Core Rules Survivor

[Uder]

Skills. With skills, why spend so much of the books and so much design time (DM-wise) on rolls that are either never used or nearly always succeed?

Feats. Remember when someone in AD&D took the fire-building proficiency? Suddenly nobody knew how to build a fire any more except that one guy. Feats are like that to me. Any time you make a list of things one person could do, it also becomes by default a list of things everyone else can't.

Ability scores perfectly mapped by a mathematical formula to ability bonuses. Why bother with ability scores any more? Just use the bonuses. Oh, I know they use them for feat prereqs, but see above.

 

[Wilphe]

I'll throw this in simply because people bandy them about:

1) Favoured Class

2) Multiclassing penalties

 

[Felix]

This thread should have been started on the House Rules forum. Nothing is not disliked by someone in there.

 

[Ambrus]

Ooh. How about the utterly pointless monk & paladin multi-classing experience penalties?
The game designers responsible for it admit that it doesn't affect game-balance in the least.

 

[Nifft]

1) Favoured Class
2) Multiclassing penalties

Nice! Those are hated indeed. I'm going to lump these into a single item; 2 causes less pain without 1.

utterly pointless monk & paladin multi-classing

Aaaah, I feel the hate is strong in this one, too!

Thanks, -- N

 

[Haloq Jakar]

get rid of the gimmicky weapons like whips and spiked chains

its swords and sorcery gosh darn it

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the pokèmount yet.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Level Adjustments.

 

[Blood Jester]

Resurrection mechanics/level loss.

Make the first part more epic to achieve, and eliminate the second in the balance.

 

[DogBackward]

My real skill beef is with Spot and Search. Are two visual acuity skills really necessary? I understand that the former is reflexive while the later is proactive, but it certainly seems like unnecessary hair-splitting to me.

Not that I wholeheartedly agree with., even in a normal game.

As for actual problems with the system... I have way too many to list, a lot of which have been covered here. Most of mine, however, are changes rather than removing things, so wouldn't fit here.