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I've thought about this a fair bit, but I haven't made much headway. To a first approximation, I might say: Feats should be widgets that you want characters of any class to have access to, even if theoretically. Some of them will have prerequisites, and that's perfectly fine, but feats which are act...

Funnily enough, my first thought is of the classics - Magical beasts like Manticores, Displacer Beasts, Phase Spiders, Chimeras and Griffins. They have a good hit die which makes their HD/CR ratios pretty sane, they tend to be intelligent enough to use tactics even if bestial, and they generally hav...

Definitely the former. Tiering up should come with some changes to your paradigm (you mentioned 4th level spells, I might go as far as to say 5th level spells), but you should still be playing the same game . The size of the difference between any two adjacent levels should be as constant as it can ...

Well, I suppose I have to cop to that, but I do maintain that you can have room for quite a lot more than the bland drek 4e admits and still have a fairly balanced game with diverse character types.

Not "extremely ridiculous shenanigans", though.

Anyway, Schleiermacher, the issue isn't getting a mundane source to some arbitrary number of levels. The problem is getting it to the same level at which the phlebotinum-empowered sources finish leveling up. Right. And if that level is arbitrarily high, then you obviously can't do that because mund...

But Frank, the game doesn't go to infinity in the first place. Maybe it could, even though it never really has done so in a functional way, but why do we even want it to? 20 levels, which is the cap 3e gave us, is easily enough room for a wide variety of power levels, probably more than any one sett...

I love Lamentations, but more because of its style than because the mechanics are especially brilliant objectively speaking -although for a retroclone, I'd say it's pretty thought-out and interesting. Plus, the game inexplicably makes me feel like I'm running a Fritz Leiber character whenever I play...

So I've been poking around some old, old threads, and I found this thread , which is highly relevant to my interests. The most germane bit: (...) A Good Example: Let's say you have "Mental Attack", "Mental Defense", "Physical Attack", and "Physical Defense". N...

Magic Jar is not a necromancy effect. It's a spell from the necromancy school. In other news, Phantasmal Forces isn't a force effect. -Username17 What. Okay, I know that you know what you're talking about, so you're probably technically right somehow, but that is utter bullshit. If the set of spell...

OgreBattle, most of those aren't GTFO abilities. GTFO abilities are abilities that, no matter how good you are at your schtick, hose you unless you can counter them. So of those you listed, only the following are GTFO abilities: - Flying/Swims/Burrowing (but only with an actual attack that can be us...

Well, that's true, but only because, as you say, noncaster classes very rarely get class features at high levels that aren't just more numbers on some class feature they got at low levels (usually not even level-appropriate numbers, at that.) And of course, you can get numbers everywhere and they mo...

Multiclassing in D&D is basically rubbish on the systemic level, because it works on the system of "trade the 6th level of Fighter for the 1st level of Wizard", so if you ever get anything level-appropriate from it it's completely by accident. Various feats and PRCs, like Tashalatora a...

Are you planning to do anything like this again?