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<blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 612487" data-attributes="member: 1891">For what it's worth, here's my little laundry list of non-obvious tweaks. Some have already been mentioned, but I think they bear repetition -- just in case this thread has an impact at WotC. In no particular order:1) Bring the sorcerer more in line with Monte Cook's BoEM2 model: give her more CHA-based class skills, perhaps remove Knowledge (Arcana); give her a separate spell list geared towards casting the same spells over and over; remove the need for non-costly material components; grant 4 skill points/level, not 2; up the HD to a d6.2) Add PrC, monster and feat construction guidelines to the DMG -- along the lines of the early 3e Dragon articles.3) Either more core races in the PHB or improved guidelines for using monsters as PC races in the DMG -- or both. If core races are being added, I'd love to see one with a CHA bonus.4) Better indexes. WotC's indexes are pretty miserable overall, IMO (when they're included at all).5) I prefer the &quot;one monster per page&quot; approach for monster books, and would love to see this in the MM. This might mean fewer monsters, but it would also mean more ecology/society/etc. info for each entry -- something I really miss.6) Change the current partial/standard/move-equivalent/free/etc. action system to something slightly more streamlined and easier to explain. (This one might count as obvious.)I'm sure I'll think of more as soon as I post this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />There's also plenty I wouldn't change: great art, pictures of all of the equipment, captions for the illustrations, binding quality, tome covers, spells in alphabetical order, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haiiro, post: 612487, member: 1891"] For what it's worth, here's my little laundry list of non-obvious tweaks. Some have already been mentioned, but I think they bear repetition -- just in case this thread has an impact at WotC. In no particular order: 1) Bring the sorcerer more in line with Monte Cook's BoEM2 model: give her more CHA-based class skills, perhaps remove Knowledge (Arcana); give her a separate spell list geared towards casting the same spells over and over; remove the need for non-costly material components; grant 4 skill points/level, not 2; up the HD to a d6. 2) Add PrC, monster and feat construction guidelines to the DMG -- along the lines of the early 3e Dragon articles. 3) Either more core races in the PHB or improved guidelines for using monsters as PC races in the DMG -- or both. If core races are being added, I'd love to see one with a CHA bonus. 4) Better indexes. WotC's indexes are pretty miserable overall, IMO (when they're included at all). 5) I prefer the "one monster per page" approach for monster books, and would love to see this in the MM. This might mean fewer monsters, but it would also mean more ecology/society/etc. info for each entry -- something I really miss. 6) Change the current partial/standard/move-equivalent/free/etc. action system to something slightly more streamlined and easier to explain. (This one might count as obvious.) I'm sure I'll think of more as soon as I post this. ;) There's also plenty I wouldn't change: great art, pictures of all of the equipment, captions for the illustrations, binding quality, tome covers, spells in alphabetical order, etc. [/QUOTE]

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