Options Overload? Maybe, but I love it! (Statistical Exercise)
- Thread starter DaveMage
- Start date
PrinceZane
First Post
Hmm...
Geek = Yes
Intelligence = Yes
Would you like to join my group? (Read: Advice needed before my rogue commits suicide post, if you haven't)
Geek = Yes
Intelligence = Yes
Would you like to join my group? (Read: Advice needed before my rogue commits suicide post, if you haven't)
dungeon blaster
First Post
I actually feel that in many ways 3ed has created more restrictions as well as more options... but it really depends on how you looked at earlier editions. The more streamlined, complex combat system has increased the number of options in the sense that there are now rules for many different maneuvers; at the same time, it results in a way of thinking that if you don't have the feat, it can't be done. Overall, I'd agree that there are more options, but I don't know if that's always a good thing.
DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
Altamont Ravenard said:One nitpick: The favored soul appears both in CDiv and in MiniHB. Don't count it twice!
AR
Correct. Looking over it, I think there are a couple of duplicates like that. Just add in the Unearthed Arcana choices to compensate for any duplicates.
(Alternatively, you can add in the Forgotten Realms optional classes and races, which do not appear above.)saethone said:
Yeah, in the "oh-by-the-way" department, those sources contain a total of 214 prestige classes.
Estlor
Explorer
And, of course, this concept doesn't include feats at all, which given the number you can choose without any prerequisites, makes for a number of options for each race/class combination (and even more for humans).
If it wasn't for the fact that most options found outside the core rulebooks are outliers and, therefore, less common in the standard group, the act of character creation could become a very time consuming exercise.
If it wasn't for the fact that most options found outside the core rulebooks are outliers and, therefore, less common in the standard group, the act of character creation could become a very time consuming exercise.
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
Who cares? I'm all for options...IronWolf said:Not sure which is scarier.... That there are so many options or that someone sat down to figure out the possible combinations....
...my name is Charles and I am geek!
Kanegrundar
Explorer
It goes even higher if you're like me and add in AE, IK, the various FR books, DL, Star Wars, and so forth into the mix. The amount of options is staggering. At least I know the days of every fighter looking and playing the same are long gone! To me, that's a VERY good thing!
Kane
Kane
Similar Threads
