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Aunt May was a Herald of Galactus. The Golden Oldie for the win!

I'd probably go with my favorite fighter, the battle master. For bard I'd go with the college of eloquence if that was available. If not, the college of lore.

Basically at the extremes it's less valuable. If you need a 20 to hit, rolling an extra die for advantage doesn't make you much more likely to succeed. If you need a 2 to hit, advantage provides a huge bonus, but you were going to succeed 95% of the time anyway, so it's not that helpful.

Some can take the enemy completely out of the fight. Suggestion for example. That's neither DPR, nor eHP. It's elimination with a single spell, while doing no damage.

Um, no. :P Note that I said SOME control spells are ALSO DPR. That leave the rest of those "some" spells as not DPR, as well as those control spells that have no DPR. Control abilities are similar. ;) What's more, the healing aspect changes the DPR to the fighter/bard and takes it away from...

Some of those are incomplete. Control is often going to be DPR, because the type of control also allows others hit more accurately and/or crit automatically, allowing greater DPR to occur. In those situations, it also becomes future enemy turns removed. Healing, which increases eHP also...

As a complete tangent, I've always disliked that phrase. How does it help God for you to seek treatment? It doesn't.

DPR analysis won't let you design the game, though. It will only let you design other damage dealing affects. The game is far more than damage. For example, your DPR analysis won't be helpful to a DM wanting to design a non-damage dealing spell of 3rd level.

If you're counter argument relies on, "but you might get one of the rare bad DMs," it's an extremely weak counter. Bad DMs are bad across the board, not just with social. Social builds are in fact much better in this case, since it will very quickly reveal to you and the other players if you...

No it's not. It is in fact class based power. It's just versatility, a different type of power than pure combat. No, it's not "up to a point." Which is better, damage or versatility, is purely subjective.

In your personal opinion. Not as any sort of objective measure. Which versatility options are best is subjective.

If that's your argument, combat is also ultimately, "roll high = win." Roll high = win isn't a good argument to counter anything I'm saying as it applies to your arguments as well. This is very campaign dependent. Nah. I can just as easily go, "The dragon eats you" as I can go, "Yeah that's...

In a white room, sure. As you say, there are too many variables, which makes it impossible to accurately rate for actual game play.

There are social/exploration spells and abilities as well. And there are rules for traps, hazards, and such that are part of exploration. It's not entirely roll high = good. The same kind of DM who would just arbitrarily shut down social situations will do the same to combat by fudging to...

Versatility is also power. It's just a different kind of power.