Greyhawk Questions Answered

A Ranger is to Druids as a Paladin is to Clerics. Certain multiclasses should not be allowed.

IMO - The more D&D version 3+ rules opened the floodgates with rules changes to allow new books to be published and sold, instead of just new realms and modules to provide greater details and more monsters, the more D&D rules have become broken.
It is not about improving the game. It's about trying to make money, and they have done poorly at it. They should have done something like bought The Dragon magazine and pursured adding new content in D&D hard back books based on articles from the Dragon Magazine. Then, they could have also done their own online D&D web annual subscription to the Dragon Magazine where a subscriber who pays them a few dollars every month could go online and research web articles from any previous issue of the Dragon Magazine with the web content being updated every month for the latest new issue.

 

a) Paladins, like Monks, are already inhibited to multiclassing. I do not see ranger-druids as broken, since both classes start quite solwly, and multiclassing them slows down even more.
b) As a former Warhammer 40000 player I know too well what you're speaking about, and I disagree for various reasons.
I like D&D 3+ editions much more than former D&D and AD&D rules, altough still it isn't my paramour of rulesets, it makes a good job of straightening and balancing things.
It always has been a matter of "make money", and it's out there to see that Wizard has always been better on that than TSR, since it bought them!
As for rules being broken, well, that's why we have Dungeon Masters. If you do not like a rule, then think well about what the game would be without it, and if you like the idea, do not apply it. It's really, really, simple, since RPGs are not competitive games, but cooperative. When I play a character, first I develop the character, then I apply him the class/es. Multiclassing (including prestige calles) is a way to add flesh and individualty to a character that would be, otherwise, rather stereotypical (sp?).

Heck, I forgot what this thread was talking about:scratchhe

 

When I was DMing, it was a strong house (meta)rule that...

Roleplay before ruleplay, gamer before gamist, munchies before munchkin.

It just means that we roleplay and then use the rules as required to interpret our world, instead of using the rules as a basis for the world. Like a reverse context thing.

Anyway ever since I started with that, we did not run into problems of balance, impractical concerns on PCs, or insane minimax behaviour. But I guess everyone sorted those out after the age of 13 anyway . :beer:

 

Good...we agree on something....:evil_laug :beer: :wavey:

Heh, yea, I know. I think he was going to do that for his version of 2nd Edition AD&D, which is sadly locked up in a vault somewhere at TSR. Too bad too that they won't publish it for those of us old fogies that want something like that. Could do it cheap too by only doing a .PDF version. But I digress.....

Hehe...yea...:grin: