I'd add to all this that the idea of kits was never to make your character more powerful. They are a role playing aid that says something about your character's background. As first published they ad… (View Post)

Yeah the elven restriction from Raise Dead was definitely still in the 2E PNP rules. Not sure of the whole thought process on changing it for BG, but simplicity probably was a big part of it! (View Post)

In most PNP games I've played, alignment really only matters to clerics, paladins, and sometimes rangers. For others it's purely a role playing aid. And I guess I'm fine with that, there's no particu… (View Post)

2E is similar. But there's so many variables, both the nature of the "evil" (greedy vs bloodthirsty) and the tenets of the specific faith. I think it's reasonable that many Paladins would t… (View Post)

I really like the idea of charisma being important, and there's been a lot of interesting suggestions here. But I don't think it should relate to party size, the NPCs you recruit in the game are neve… (View Post)