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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3101335" data-attributes="member: 29398">To answer a point by Hussar: there's a difference between what the &quot;splat books&quot; do to the rules and what others elsewhere have discussed doing to the rules, and that's that the books merely add to the foundation already laid, while others have been discussing how to change parts of that foundation and whether it is even possible without having to rebuild the whole foundation.&nbsp; Big difference.You use re-rolling initiative as an example...to me, this is one change that can easily be made without much knock-on at all.&nbsp; You just...re-roll.&nbsp; Sure, it affects your in-combat tactics, but that's different...and is in fact the improvement the change brings.&nbsp; But from a hard rules perspective, there's little if any knock-on at all.&nbsp; Things that last for one round still last for one round (instead of &quot;until your next action&quot;), for example...trivial change.An example of a change that would have serious knock-on would be, say, ditching the entire feats system.&nbsp; This would force a near-complete re-build of the Fighter class to make it playable, and a decision on whether the idea of metamagic is worth keeping and if so how to implement it, and a question of how to handle things like blind-fighting, and..., and...&nbsp; And that is the level of changes and tweaks that are being looked at, and where the knock-on effect becomes a serious issue.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 3101335, member: 29398"] To answer a point by Hussar: there's a difference between what the "splat books" do to the rules and what others elsewhere have discussed doing to the rules, and that's that the books merely [B]add[/B] to the foundation already laid, while others have been discussing how to [B]change[/B] parts of that foundation and whether it is even possible without having to rebuild the whole foundation. Big difference. You use re-rolling initiative as an example...to me, this is one change that can easily be made without much knock-on at all. You just...re-roll. Sure, it affects your in-combat tactics, but that's different...and is in fact the improvement the change brings. But from a hard rules perspective, there's little if any knock-on at all. Things that last for one round still last for one round (instead of "until your next action"), for example...trivial change. An example of a change that would have serious knock-on would be, say, ditching the entire feats system. This would force a near-complete re-build of the Fighter class to make it playable, and a decision on whether the idea of metamagic is worth keeping and if so how to implement it, and a question of how to handle things like blind-fighting, and..., and... And that is the level of changes and tweaks that are being looked at, and where the knock-on effect becomes a serious issue. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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