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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1777910" data-attributes="member: 1645">Agreed.  I'd prefer to see Defense and a Damage Save though.  A Damage Save speeds up the game and brings standard combat a bit more into line with spells and specialized combat maneuvers -- if you beat your opponent on a roll, something bad happens to him.It's not the abstraction of D&D combat that bothers people; it's the oddity of "hitting" and "doing damage" without really hitting, but still needing to heal the damage, etc.  D&D combat can be very concrete and detailed in ways that don't make sense (realistically or cinematically).Either remove it or make it meaningful (e.g., quasi-Christian priests vs. quasi-diabolicaly magicians).I believe d20 Modern already moves in this directions, with Allegiances rather than Alignments.  I wouldn't mind Allegiances with ranks, like skills.Certainly each class's special abilities could become feats.  I don't think the goal is to make any ability available to anyone so much as it's to make each class more flexible -- and to make new classes easier to devise.Certainly the holy-warrior archetype could just be a Fighter with a bonus-feat list full of holy feats.I'd love to see the Cleric replaced by a non-combat Priest class that multiclasses well with the holy-warrior Fighter.I'd also love to see Domains expanded to more than one spell per level, so that three domains could define a Priest's spell list.The Sorcerer is obviously a variant Wizard that they gave a cool "dragon blood" backstory as a rationale for allowing both variants in the core game.I'd love to see some kind of Sorceror (or Psion) class with mechanics that lend themselves to any spellcasting monster or character with a few magical abilities -- not just the typical progression up the spell-level ladder.Or decrease everything else.  Seriously.</blockquote>

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