Recent content by Maxperson

For you.

For power games and optimizers, which are a small minority of players. For casual players and the rest of us who don't care about that sort of thing, terrible does not exist.

No. Multiclassed PCs are merely good, not fantastically great. 5e is too easy for anything to be terrible. Terrible just plain doesn't exist in 5e where PCs are concerned. Multiclassing is most often used to..................................have fun. The overwhelming majority of players are...

I don't see it as a problem at all. In fact, we know it isn't a problem because of multiclassing. Multiclassing also delays power spikes. Folks opt to delay the spike in favor of versatility, story, or whatever other reason they have for deciding on two or more classes. A prestige class...

And that's perfectly fine. I was just arguing that the math you were using is extraordinarily misleading. Nobody considers 74k feat combination options before selecting feats. Nobody considers anything close to even 1000. The overwhelming majority of people only consider a few feats when...

It doesn't matter which level, because this is 5th edition. It mattered in 3e where it wasn't designed like 5e is. In 3e the extra attack didn't matter nearly as much as the metric crap ton of feats did. The -10 for the 3rd attack meant it missed most of the time anyway, especially when you...

You're still not understanding. Subclasses are built into the class now, so you don't get only the "subclass" for X consecutive levels like you did in 3e. That allows them to put the extra attacks into class for 5e and spread out the "prestige class" abilities. A prestige class for 5e =...

That's all they ever were. Subclasses that you could pick if you met the prerequisites.

Sporks of the world, unite!

These aren't mutually exclusive things. I can make a unique personality AND pick a thematic feat chain. You are also assuming that we would take the thematic chains for uniqueness, rather than just character story development. That's an assumption that will prove wrong a whole lot of the...

The math is right, the usage is wrong. People don't go through the PHB and consider every feat combination. They do something like the following, "I really like Sentinel, so I'm going to make a Paladin and take the Sentinel feat." Total feats considered? 1. Now every combination of feats...

Subclasses are not only pre-built feat chains, but they are also built-in prestige classes. That's the redundant part of it, not whether X or Y is covered by 5e. These feat paths are neither subclass, nor prestige class. They are simply thematic chains of feats for a character to maybe travel...

That still doesn't put them into a tax category. That simply means that the relatively few power gamers out there will pick them more often than other paths. For the overwhelming majority of players who are casual and don't bother going online to look for threads on the best combos, the...

This misses the entire point of prestige classes. They were meant as a thematic specialization of your class. My druid is specialized at shape changing. Yours is specialized as a summoner. My rogue is specialized as an acrobat. And so on.