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Hmm. How about feats instead?[br][br]I really don't like the idea of tying specific things into class abilities. It limits the role and flavor a lot. Its one of things I dislike about the rogue- if you aren't dealing with traps and living creatures, you might as well be playing an expert with a hand...

Author stupidity.
You can't blame a creation for what the creator fails to do with it.

1186512752[/unixtime]] 1186510545[/unixtime]]I'm pretty sure that wall of stone is supposed to operate in such a way that you can't create the stone itself in an occupied square, but you can completely enclose one. If you try to do so, the creature to be trapped gets so make a reflex save to escape...

Is there any actual difference with that change, though?
The character can still do it... does how he does it matter?

And you have to love a spell description that doesn't specify what, exactly, being trapped 'within or under' actually does. Is suffocation an issue? (it should be, if done right) Do they have enough room to swing a weapon in there and try to free themselves? Make somatic gestures for spells?

1186465804[/unixtime]] 1186465275[/unixtime]]lol. I wonder if Mages could work if all effects that created something out of mana didn't work, and all effects that had a duration had to be maintained by concentration. [br][br]Nah, to many Save or sucks still in the system then, [br][br]But what if w...

I always think of it as more a problem with the settings than the game. Or rather, a short coming of the authors, who don't have any real understanding of history or economics, or what magic would do to both.[br][br]On the other hand, its really easy to turn spellcasters into 9 to 5 wageslaves, and ...

Game balance… there is a catch about game balance. If the setting allows the standard stuff, its going to be at least as broken as the default rules. It really comes down to the DM putting his foot down (at the start of the campaign, hopefully, not after the spellcasters start making everyone else c...

Well... yes and no. You could revamp them, but a lot of things (aberrations and outsiders, in particular) just aren't going to be showing up that often. The 'magic at a price' thing really should cut down on the number of things summoned, or weird critters that wizards are experimenting on for no ap...

1186370858[/unixtime]] 1186363539[/unixtime]][br]- Work the kinks out of the feat system. At the moment, theres a lot wrong and lacking, but dialing them up RoW style won't fit a low magic setting.[br] [br][br]What, because "low magic" means the same thing as "few abilities" or ...

I remember the Sage Advice column from the long, long ago. I just didn't remember it being quite that stupid...

What?[br][br]Honestly it just sounds like 'I want my goodies now, so here's a random change that doesn't take any possible consequences into account'.[br][br]Some of these become really wacky, btw. A rogue in particularly will be able to drop someone in one round with the same ease that he'd pick up...

I'm very out of touch on what Wizards/Hasbro/whoever and the tiny little minions they own are doing, but why did the topic of dwarf beards even come up?[br][br]I mean, I can understand someone writing in about the Truenamer (for example), saying that the numbers don't work out and how the hell is th...

Bad examples aside (and what the hell is up with bringing 3 actual D&D characters into a low magic discussion) , there is such a thing as honest to goodness low magic fantasy where the non-casters aren't chumps. [br][br]Yes, its drowned out by the various Tolkienesque regurgitations that form th...

1186215379[/unixtime]]. Battlefield control is what you've got to worry about, and few monsters have that. Dragons in low magic probably shouldn't be casting spells at all, they just fly around with a breath weapon, and that makes them pretty dangerous in their own right. [br][br]Hmm. I actually co...

Huh. Never got that response out of anyone before.

Usually people just whine about my 'negativity and cynicism'

I've never actually inspired someone before. You folks are an odd bunch.
Some interesting ideas, though.

Real gold or 'virtual gold', it still sucks the heroism out of the genre.
Plus, you'll have to work out some justification... it lends itself a little too well to arcade game style 'power up gems'

Whats the first feat for?
The game doesn't really need yet another +1 bonus that doesn't always apply and even when it does, it quickly becomes so statistically insignificant that it isn't worth keeping track of.

As far as the Spellcraft access... uh, whee?

Yes... well. I dislike any meaning of 'best' that translates to 'makes fewer mistakes'. [br][br]But then again, since most gamers are convinced that loosing = failing, and similar atrocities, most writes and publishers can sit comfortable in the knowledge that their audience is too stupid to realize...

Their own products have pretty much shown the lack of interest in the current product line that heralds a new edition. Random new sub-systems (with the Tome of Battle defiling what little remained of the fighter's dignity). Obvious half-arsed efforts. Incarnum? Tome of Magic? Did anyone actually loo...

Well, if it helps, you can simply accept the fact that a sorcerer is pretty much an NPC class in the wrong book. It has all the hallmarks- limited choices, and nothing else beyond standard feat progression. Oh, yeah and it sucks at both item creation and combat metamagic. Good idea, WotC. Give it a ...

Meh. Its essentially Dark Sun without the deserts (including the evil not-quite-but-pretty-much-a-cleric class). Evil has won! Life sucks. The underdog challenge angle might be fun for a while, but the longer you play the more you'll realize that they added and subtracted things from 3.x without any...

I read some of the ebook versions before, frankly, losing interest.[br][br]Its a Monte creation, which implies some wackiness (and the occassional bad bit of editing that seems to haunt every single RP product nowadays because, apparently, people just can't be bothered). [br][br]Examples of wackines...

1166120748[/unixtime]][br][br]A defensive ability that requires you win initiative is largely irrelevant, because you could just be throwing an offensive ability instead. Frank is right that offense is better than defense is most cases. The strength of defense in my opinion is that it's a passive a...