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I do find it interesting that it often seems to be the half casters people are trying to change or get rid of. I hear about how...

Eh. Class are just a laundry list of pre-selected feats balanced around being pre-selected.

That's only because Laser LLama doesn't have to stay true to backwards compatibility. I basically say D&D Goldilocks Class name is...

well we know it is less than 100 and more than one so we are making progress

A class in 5eD&D is two things: a concept that cannot be easily and accurately reproduced with another class, and enough variations on...

To me the easiest and most meaningful to balance is STRENGTH: Armor Strength is factored into armor. Medium armor is better than light...

The point is the saves (no matter how many) cannot be easily balanced to each other. This isn't a trivial exercise. There's is no Holy...

3e was a mess. Fort saves were serious suck or death on fail. Reflex saves did damage but nothing serious unless the target was...

To balance the game you cannot just balance a single dungeon. You have to balance every potential dungeon. Inevitably that means you...

Again.. Only works if both DM, Player , and Designers agree to the base assumption. Because I could make a Death Strength Save spell...

No. It's a major issue. The entire basis behind making every ability score balanced by tying them to defenses requires you to make...

And even then, once you have sufficient hp/defenses to last a few direct damage hits then whatever best defends against status effects...

Only works if you rejigger all the monster attacks evenly to all defences. Which is a MAJOR stretch.

The truth of the matter is that if you really want to balance the five abilities scores in this heavily combat-based game you have only...

Early D&D was balanced around imbalanced play. Like @FrogReaver stated, the second you added or changed a major part, it crashed. And...