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Exactly. "Tanking" in 4e actually meant controlling enemy attention, because controlling enemy attention was a thing you could...

Trying to control aggro in 5e, to somehow "tank" and absorb hits for the rest of the party, is definitely a fool's errand. (If you want...

Considering there are virtually no aggro/control abilities available for any tanks in 5e, it's not a knock against the bladesinger to...

You keep saying this as though you can't do both things. More importantly, the question was about min-maxing. Min-maxing for defense is...

A 1-level Fighter dip is excellent for anyone aiming for a caster-martial mixed character: Bladesinger Wizard, Pact of the Blade...

Awesome! You can exploit that 'til Kingdom come, moving around the battlefield with impunity, and using all your spells for powerful...

I'm not the one arguing that financial success is the one and only standard that ever matters.

Bladesingers make better tanks than actual defense-specialized Fighters. Of course, it's even better if you start Fighter and then MC to...

Is having too much fun OP?

So, if you know, in your heart of hearts, that a particular design is actually bad--as in it will, objectively, result in problems at...

And I have seen enough complaints now that I don't actually think 5e will last. It had a good run. Folks have seen the cracks now...

Your preferences, from everything I've seen, are: 2nd edition 5th edition 3rd edition/Basic (not sure relative ranking there OD&D/1e...

It's only non-representative when it doesn't support you though. As soon as it does, it's super representative. That's part of the...

One of the best innovations in 4e was allowing characters to use Intimidate to force morale checks on opponents. You could literally...

But you totally can intimidate (or persuade) an hostile opponent to give up the fight. Otherwise, there would be no "hostile"...