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If turning into a duck for a long period of time, in-game, is a part of your setting's definition of magic, then shouldn't the players be willing to explore that? Exploring the possible outcomes of magic is part and parcel of crafting a realistic setting. If simulation is the primary priority...

To be clear, "better balanced" does not mean "actually balanced". :) But you'd eliminate most of the Tier 1 classes (wizard, cleric, druid) and a lot of the lowest Tier classes (like fighter and monk) in one fell swoop. You still have powerhouses like psion and archivist, but at least you have...

I'll go further and say that "no PHB allowed" 3.5 would be better balanced than "PHB only" 3.5.

Exactly right.

There's nothing wrong with a game not working for you. It sounds like you tried in good faith, and it didn't work out. Not seeing an issue.

Since D&D is fundamentally a cooperative game, I don't think people are really looking for perfect balance. The only concern on the balance front is the appearance of tradeoffs (well, he doesn't get spells, but he does have more hit points!) and for no option to completely eclipse another...

I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

That's the main reason I always advocate decoupling attack accuracy from stats for modern D&D. It removes the mechanical pressure to always raise stats at the expense of more interesting, versatile feats.

Sorry. Not only no, but hell no.

Having different mechanics for the sake of novelty and variety is reason enough, to my mind. Surely a few of the thousand pages of required documentation for a RPG can be spared for a secondary magic system.

Pretty sure that gnome genetics already did that. :)

That's me, I lean into controversy! My advocacy (for D&D, specifically) is for a concept that's not really discussed (or I've not stumbled across it); robust character creation options prior to game start, followed by somewhat randomized, "roguelike" progression triggered by in-narrative...

Why Gnomes are Not Awesome: Wulbren Bongle <shakes fist>

Please, in the name of whatever deity or cosmic force you all hold relevant, can we not reboot that thread again? :)

I think it's because for a non-negligible portion of the player base, thespianism and invocations of colo(u)r are among the principal purposes of play. It's similar to some posts in other concurrent threads about how the only difference between two characters that actually matters is how...

Yes, obviously. Without multiclassing, what are we even doing here?

I would definitely be wary of a game advertising "no multiclass" as a feature. It's a pretty strong sign that the DM and I aren't going to agree about what's important in a game.

I average about 4 in-person game nights a month and 3 online game nights a month; considering I'm married with 4 kids, any more than that is an extreme challenge.

I do wonder if weekly play is “the norm”. Only one of my 4 groups is weekly. One of my groups was weekly for a few years but switched to every other week because weekly was too much, which seems to me be much more common as people get into their 40s or higher.