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<blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 9117482" data-attributes="member: 6778210">I find there are few things that couldn't benefit with some level of guidelines at minimum and many that would benefit from something more systematized, both for the GM and the player. Generally speaking if your class is specifically meant to be good at it, there probably should be rules for it so that your entire gimmick isn't reliant on your GM and so that you can actually proactively try to do things within the game rather than constantly hash things out with the Game Master. Same with a skill or even an ability score: if you're giving me something with no structure, I'm going to feel less at-ease in trying to use it because I can't predict the sort of thought-gap between what my GM thinks it is for and what I think it's for. If there's something I'd like to see streamline/cut back on, I think [USER=7037537]@Gorck[/USER] nailed it when they said multiclassing. I think the sort of &quot;cut and paste&quot; multiclassing is the bane of good design and forces the early levels to be worse because devs don't want to have classes that are all about quick dips. I'd rather see very limited multiclassing (4E's version wouldn't be bad) and more classes that cover more niches instead of &quot;Well, I take two levels from here, another from here, then 4 levels from here...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Justice and Rule, post: 9117482, member: 6778210"] I find there are few things that couldn't benefit with some level of guidelines at minimum and many that would benefit from something more systematized, both for the GM and the player. Generally speaking if your class is specifically meant to be good at it, there probably should be rules for it so that your entire gimmick isn't reliant on your GM and so that you can actually proactively try to do things within the game rather than constantly hash things out with the Game Master. Same with a skill or even an ability score: if you're giving me something with no structure, I'm going to feel less at-ease in trying to use it because I can't predict the sort of thought-gap between what my GM thinks it is for and what I think it's for. If there's something I'd like to see streamline/cut back on, I think [USER=7037537]@Gorck[/USER] nailed it when they said multiclassing. I think the sort of "cut and paste" multiclassing is the bane of good design and forces the early levels to be worse because devs don't want to have classes that are all about quick dips. I'd rather see very limited multiclassing (4E's version wouldn't be bad) and more classes that cover more niches instead of "Well, I take two levels from here, another from here, then 4 levels from here..." [/QUOTE]

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