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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5996018" data-attributes="member: 17106">Well, what D&D has been evolving towards, and what 3e really wanted to be, is a system where this is not the case, where nothing is exclusive. 3e has so many feats, skills, and alt class features that what your class choice is doesn't limit you much. But it's still there, and the classes as they're constructed make building your chosen character a lot harder than it needs to be.To address both points, I think the next logical evolution of D&D would have been to make it not quite a classless system but a "class enabled" system. Break the system down so every character ability gained through levels can be seen as a skill (a dimensional commodity) or a feat (anything without a numbered bonus). Base attack, saves, and the like become skills. Spells and class abilities become feats.Then craft classes/themes/specialties/etc. out of them. Thus, if you don't want to comb through twenty books picking feats, just play a standard build with all the choices made for you. A fighter simply has some maxed weapon skills, fort/con saves, etc., while a wizard gets the fireball and haste chains of feats and a nice bonus on Knowledge Arcana. That way beginners don't have to learn complex character customization, and people who don't like 3e style character building don't have to spend time on it.The is sort of like what the early 5e buzz made it sound like the game would be, but it doesn't live up to that, and every new thing we see seems to be stepping farther and farther away from this approach. Making CS dice more generic would be an incrementally positive step, albeit not nearly enough of one.</blockquote>

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