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That's the problem with most designer's feat design.. Feats are supposed to be uncommon or rare Extraordinary or Magical knowledge or changes unless you hand out so many that everyone can access many of them.

Pretty much. Basically you can spam maneuvers without the damage dice. The result is usually worse than most of your reactions, attacks, and bonus actions but weaker allies can set up enemies for allies.

Hence the popular believe that Medicine and Animal Handling don't do anything since 99% of DM don't let you do anything meaningful with either unless they set it up.

It's not that you can't disarm. It's that since the battle master exist, you can't disarm and deal damage in the same action. 90% of the DMs i know and heard of lets every martial character and monster perform all Battlemaster manuevers by trading out the damage.

That's essentially what I'd do if I were making a whole new dungeon crawler RPG Each Skill would attached to the Companion, Knack, Maneuver, Trick, or Spell systems. You learn and cast spells with Arcana, Nature, & Religion. You get a companion with Diplomacy, History, or Animal Handling. You...

This is why 5e should have a dedication Skills and Tools chapter. Not as in depth or fiddly as 3e but each skill having 2-4 dedicated DCs and usages that ranged the entire spectrum of the base game. If I were to ever make a simple dungeon crawler, I always thought that I'd just have every...

Again my point is a bonus to most Ranger skills doesn't do anything at most tables. +1d10 to Medicine checks doesn't do anything until you create and modify that a DC 15 Medicine check heals Xd6 hit points or stabilizes a dying creature. Animal Handling +20 Medicine +20 Nature +20 Survival...

It's because the Rangery fantasy elements require distinct rules. Like Ranger Animal companions requires creating Beast Companion stat blocks and the rules to use them. You can't just Roll Animal Handing and have an Animal Companion Same with Medicine, Religion, or Nature. You can't roll a...

Aberrantics (invoking aberrant aspects of the outside) Astrapathy (enforcing the Astral plane on the world) Glamour (tying the would to dreams and making the dreams real) Psychometabolism (transforming the body with your ming) Pschometry (reading past and future of touched objects and gaining...

To me ideally if we were divorced from D&D requirements A Simple Warrior A Physical Warrior A Mental Warrior And the mental warrior class would be a combination of Warlord, Eldritch Knight, Ranger, and Paladin where the class focuses on INT/WIS/CHA, has access to tactics and/spells, and has...

I made a quick write up of Warlord class features that line up to 5e's design paradigm. " Warlord Strategy You can craft a Warlord Strategy. Your Strategies start with 10 Strategic Points and you gain more as you level as shown in the Strategic Points column of the Warlord Features table. You...

Personally, I think that healing doesn't need to be a priority with the warlord. 5e doesn't really put healing as something that is so gated that a healer is strictly needed for a party. 5e puts priority more on the reviver role in the healer role. And the warlord telling people to get up or...

Then too Psion- Warlord Swordmage or some other Arcane Gish Nentir Vale I can't believe it's not Dark Sun

The main benefit the Warlord has its like one of the 5 things from older edition that hasn't been converted that has fans. The Warlord and Psion are the only old classes that can be reintroduced as new that a lot of people care about.

I don't think healing should be the focus. My prefer is warlords being a "special extra action" battery. One action is you spending you HD for healing. Another is an attack. Another is a cantrip.