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<blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 2708077" data-attributes="member: 2268">I think D&amp;D should stay with its class-and-level-based system, for the simple reason that the game always has been about archetypes, and in my opinion that focus was what made it easy to understand and play, and is still a basic part of creating a character on the quick, which is something that takes at least twice as long with point-based systems I played so far (Shadowrun, L5R, don't ask about GURPS).What I would love to see is the game sticking to one certain method of options. Where 3.5 stand at the moment, you have half a dozen different methods to create the exactly same character concept, and they are all handled as equally valid. Be it prestige classes, replacement levels, prestige races, templates, multiclassing, new base classes...it became redundant a long time ago.If there's a new edition of D&amp;D anytime soon, I hope they will lay a solid foundation of base classes, and then stick to one or two mechanisms of modifying those. That's my wish for any kind of 4E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geron Raveneye, post: 2708077, member: 2268"] I think D&D should stay with its class-and-level-based system, for the simple reason that the game always has been about archetypes, and in my opinion that focus was what made it easy to understand and play, and is still a basic part of creating a character on the quick, which is something that takes at least twice as long with point-based systems I played so far (Shadowrun, L5R, don't ask about GURPS). What I would love to see is the game sticking to one certain method of options. Where 3.5 stand at the moment, you have half a dozen different methods to create the exactly same character concept, and they are [b]all handled as equally valid[/b]. Be it prestige classes, replacement levels, prestige races, templates, multiclassing, new base classes...it became redundant a long time ago. If there's a new edition of D&D anytime soon, I hope they will lay a solid foundation of base classes, and then stick to one or two mechanisms of modifying those. That's my wish for any kind of 4E. [/QUOTE]

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