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Reading this i will just point out one thing, I wouldn’t categorise a JoaT class as the same thing as a JoaT builds, mostly because most jack classes are also fullcasters, whereas jack builds are the ununified results of multiclassing.

Doing a whole bunch of things mediocrely still often feels worse than doing one thing competently, and we know that jack of all trades builds suffer in 5e compared to focused masters of one, hey! look at all these things my character gets to be bad at!

tangentially, i was thinking the other day, totem barbarian feels like something that could've ought to of been a ranger subclass, if you removed most of the reliance on the boons activating on the requirement of rage, bear totem would be busted further but it was always busted so like, it's not...

i mean, technically true, but not by much.

eeeh, i think it's quite a stretch to say that casuals and the rest of us 'don't care about that sort of thing', it might not be our first priority but i think it still registers as a notable factor for a vast majority of people, they don't like it and it doesn't feel good when their flavour...

i think i'd like the builder to be able to highlight any associated abilities that are directly affected by my selected stat/ability/trait, like, i'm selecting WIS on my monk so it highlights my WIS skills, my unarmoured defence AC and my Focus techniques save DC.

they throw themselves towards the target.

Besides the fact they get to exist alongside subclasses and aren’t tied to a specific class, but ‘being like subclasses’ isn’t a negative in my books.

That’s not the big whammy you think it is, Prestige classes were always just another form of subclasses, or vice-versa, whichever way you want to look at it, but as it is, subclasses currently are not applicable across multiple classes nor have prerequisites to taking them, not to mention these...

I mean, you could get rid of MC and keep PC, you just tie prestige class qualifications to prerequisites that aren’t multiclassed based, give them all a minimum level threshold and something like ‘you need to be able to cast 3rd level divine spells’ ‘you need to be proficient in martial weapons...

I’d like to have prestige classes but i think it would be beneficial to ban multiclassing first cutting out that whole kind of barb1/fighter2/rogue3 nonsense. Your class and subclass would form the spine of your character’s build and while branching out into a specific theme. Feats provide a...

i do agree that 5e probably needs more customization opportunities in character progression but i don't think a primarily feat-based progression is the ideal solution, i think the class-subclass structure is a good base but that needs to be better supplemented with more feats that are also more...

i mean 'significant thematic interaction' in the sense that if contemporary tech is going to be around then players are going to end up wanting to hack something or other sooner or later, it's basically the lockpicking of the electronic age, and i don't think it would've been a good decision if...

what do you mean a by 'mono setting', like, dropping support for all other preexisting settings to focus everything on a single one going forwards?

while i love myself an artificer i don't think tying a significant thematic interaction with a core part of your setting to a single subclass on a single class would be a good idea.