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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 7846266" data-attributes="member: 72555">You can make D&amp;D game with &quot;specialization&quot; that doesn't fall into this trap.1. Presume competence.&nbsp; Your stats and other &quot;immutables&quot; should have a limited effect on how good you are at your class.2. For fighting classes, your level determines how &quot;complex&quot;&nbsp; a fighting style you can have.3. For mage classes, your level determines how &quot;complex&quot; a spell you can cast.4. Changing your spells or changing your fighting style takes about as much work.&nbsp; Downtime/practice can be measured in common units.Under such a system, you can be specialized to use (say) polearms, but if you run into an awesome greatsword you can spend, say, a week setting up a greatsword style.Similarly, a wizard can have a build specialized around fire spells, but can spend a week changing their load out to be cold magic based.This is still customization, because two different fighters can be quite different in play.&nbsp; You can have your sword-and-board and polearm fighter who play very differently; except, given a week+ downtime, they could swap their styles (instead of having to reroll).Now not all wizards will know all spells, and not all fighters will know all combat techniques.&nbsp; Picking up new spells and techniques would be part of adventuring.&nbsp; And just like how wizards don't have every spell prepared, fighters won't have every technique incorporated into a style.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 7846266, member: 72555"] You can make D&D game with "specialization" that doesn't fall into this trap. 1. Presume competence. Your stats and other "immutables" should have a limited effect on how good you are at your class. 2. For fighting classes, your level determines how "complex" a fighting style you can have. 3. For mage classes, your level determines how "complex" a spell you can cast. 4. Changing your spells or changing your fighting style takes about as much work. Downtime/practice can be measured in common units. Under such a system, you can be specialized to use (say) polearms, but if you run into an awesome greatsword you can spend, say, a week setting up a greatsword style. Similarly, a wizard can have a build specialized around fire spells, but can spend a week changing their load out to be cold magic based. This is still customization, because two different fighters can be quite different [I]in play[/I]. You can have your sword-and-board and polearm fighter who play very differently; except, given a week+ downtime, they could swap their styles (instead of having to reroll). Now not all wizards will know all spells, and not all fighters will know all combat techniques. Picking up new spells and techniques would be part of adventuring. And just like how wizards don't have every spell prepared, fighters won't have every technique incorporated into a style. [/QUOTE]

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