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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6088891" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 308: June 2003part 7/93.5 Update: The fighting classes didn't change hugely from 3.0 to 3.5. What changes they did make were pretty consistently done to deal with the problem of front-loading. Fighters are pretty much the same, but for expanded feat options, which still don't change the fact that the first 4-6 levels are the only ones you really want. Barbarians get better Rage that advances faster, once again offsetting but not removing the issue that many people were just taking one level and then going Ranger instead. And speaking of Rangers, they get expanded in nearly every way. Their HP is down a little. but they get more spells, more skills, more efficient skills, more combat styles, and those styles advance more gradually. Each is a small change, but put together they represent a pretty substantial upgrade. So pretty much all the changes are ones that grant greater power, at least on the surface. Of course, that won't stop complaints that they're still miles behind spellcasters in flexibility from piling up over the next 5 years, but what can you do? Completely changing the powers rules to fix it lost more people than it gained, and caused pathfinder to sometimes outsell 4e. In a .5 revision, they had even less leeway to change things. As with the spell nerfs, these little tweaks aren't exciting to read about, just irritating. The vast majority of people won't notice (apart from that fighters suck, which was obvious to nearly everyone. ) and those that were won't stop complaining because you've slapped a band-aid on it. I hate these no-win situations. Silicon Sorcery: As they hinted in the letters page, they've finally got a little more epic material for us, a year on. Two prestige classes based on Morrowind: Tribunal. Both are about transcending your limitations and becoming a divine badass capable of nearly anything. But one tries to get there by sucking up to the gods, while the other believes that you make your own fate. Of course, in D&D, the one that fully progresses your clerical spellcasting as well as granting a load of extra abilities is probably going to win against the one that doesn't, at least until they gain the power to completely no-sell all connections to another plane or higher power. So essentially, it looks like the conflict here is proxies vs super-athar, and in the game you can choose to help either side. That's definitely a conflict that works well in D&D, where even if everyone accepts the gods exist, they don't always like them or want them watching and meddling with the world, and they aren't so omnipotent that you can't make a difference. I can definitely see players wanting to take either of these if they get to epic level, so this article is quite welcome, as with most of their current computer game choices.</blockquote>

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