From rpg.net

"The "Less DM power " idea is an insidious reaction to bad DM's (I played with many of them) and the simple fact players buy more books."

Reasons Magic-Users Did Not Dominate Play in Early Editions of D&D

Truth.

Brilliance from EPT

From someone's recent Empire of the Petal Throne game:

Stuff I like:

• Marching Order rules
• No Read Magic (I think...)
• More Use of Saves
• Int & Con use - I'm curious as well.
• Fighter class skills
• Spellcaster class skills and bonus spells
• Critical hits

There's some more cool stuff there, but not for an D&D-based dungeon crawl game.

Read this again.

Really. Read it.

Wisdom.

"If you didn’t think of checking the tavern for one-armed men, consider it a comment on your skill as a player."