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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 2523714" data-attributes="member: 710">I would really like D&D to retain its high magic feel, but I would enjoy less reliance on magic items, especially those that lead to the extreme power difference between high and low level charactersMaybe there should be no +x bonus anymore, but instead only special abilities for weapons and armors.So a flaming longsword wouldn´t have any additional enhancement bonus, it would just deal additional fire damage (or maybe not even that, maybe it would just replace its ordinary damage with fire damage)I like the flavour idea of items like Gauntlets of Ogre Power, but I don´t like the resulting item reliance. Maybe a Gauntlet of Ogre Power would grant the fighter a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength, but only for a single strength (-related) check or roll per day (though on the other hand,  don´t like the whole rolls per day story - though for magic items, it is more reasonable than for class abilities).For similar reasons, boosting spells should be a bit less important.Turning Undead should be removed, at least the current mechanic. Maybe it should just work like Intimidate (except the Cleric would use Knowledge (Religion) and it works even though undeads are mindless and immune to mind affecting abilities) ...I would prefer a lot of class abilitites as feats. Sneak Attack, Uncanny Dodge, all these could well be made feats. Consequently, characters should have more feats (1 feat per 2 levels like in Iron Heroes is nice). Basic Martial Arts ability would be nice if available to everyone, the eastern style Monk can then concentrate on extreme flashy effects...Abilities should be less related to uses/day. Maybe the inherent drawbacks should outweigh it - Smite Evil could be a fullround or standard action for a Paladin, not allowing multiple attacks. More flexibility for classes - The afromentioned Paladin might be indead a wrong class - the AE Champion is basically a flexible version of this class - and it removes the need for a "Anti-Paladin" classes (Black Guard). Basically this ties to how generic classes should be - I don´t think Expert, Warrior and Spellcaster are enough, especially since they are dull and evoke no direct associations to roles they play (except a very basic). To few classes for a class based system and beginning players trying to come up with their first character idea...Maybe it would be nice to use skills in place of saving throws and BAB. Maybe remove class or level based saving throw modifiers - a reflex save is just a dex check, and the saving throw DC against a spell would only be 10+INT (for wizard-like casters). Skills like Weapon Training (Swords) or Weapon Training (Bows) replace BAB. (That´s a bit hard to pull off, since you would have to interact with multiclassing and class skills in a sensible way...)</blockquote>

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