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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 285377" data-attributes="member: 2067">Before we implement all these house rules that everyone wants, I'd like a definate relationship between monsters, races, and classes.Something that can be expressed simply in a stat block...3e has the beginnings with ECL's and Advancement, but I'd like it to be clearer...I mean, what if my human psion wants to advance as a humanoid instead of a psion for a few levels...?What kind of statistics are appropriate for various ages in various species?I'd like to be able to take any given entry in the Monster Manual, and turn it into a PC with a minimum of difficulty, and I want the rules to aid that transition. As far as I can see, that's the only really glaring annoyance for me, as a DM and a player.Everything else is house rules. There's nothing wrong with it as-is (more or less), and it *needs* no drastic overhaul, except to satisfy particular niches. The classes are balanced and flavorful, the multiclassing is remarkable, and the races work surprisingly well.I'm not saying that the changes are a bad thing, I'm saying they're largely unnessecary for the game. Non-Vancian magic? Whoop-dee-frickin-doo. No HP? Yay for you! An alt-ranger? Yippie-fuggin'-skippie. Less magic item availability? Hoo-hah! While a lot of people are clamoring for these types of changes, they're fundamentaly superfluous. Not that they should ignore them, just that they don't need to put them into a revision as anything more than an optional variant.The system works quite well. I'm happy with it. Not that that nessecarily means that variations aren't a good and rewarding thing to have, because they are and I'd support their development. I just wouldn't support that being forced on a system that basically works the way it is.I *like* the alt-magic systems and alt-rangers. I *want* these kinds of things to exist. But that doesn't mean that it's nessecarily better or cooler than the original, which has it's own merits.Basically, stop yer whinin' about how D&D doesn't cater to your style of gaming, and find things that are perhaps a bit more fundamentaly messy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Though that's just IMHO, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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