The Ranger class in particular is competitive against spellcasters at all but the highest levels, imo, and even then if you play your cards right. Because they can tame magical beasts and because the… (View Post)

Let me give you an idea of what fighters did past 20th level, granted, alot of this wasn't really implemented in the IE games, and what was implemented was less powerful than their PnP counterparts, … (View Post)

Yeah, that's also true. No matter how strong you were, you weren't invincible in 2nd edition. Go into an encounter unprepared and you can have long lasting consequences, beyond mere death. You really… (View Post)

I completely disagree with that, personally. 2e made every high level class feel extremely important in their own way, but especially the mages, druids, and clerics. Basically everything changes once… (View Post)

Democracies are an effective form of representation locally, but fail when applied at scale, entire subsets of the population that would have political freedom at a more local democratic level will n… (View Post)