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1) Universal Archetype Levels. Not "Everyone uses the same archetypes" but everyone gets a ribbon feature at 1, core feature at 3, expansion at 6, flex at 9, improvement at 11, and capstone at 14. If someone wants to be an Eldritch Knight Wizard and re-arranges some stuff that's on them. 2)...

https://darksun.fandom.com/wiki/Bard 2e Dark Sun Bard class.

Ever seen the Athasian Bard class? It's an assassin for reasons!

Monks are weak because most of the power-scaling post level 7 is built around magic item use and those magic items make it harder for monks to use them due to class design restrictions. Flametongues and the like are great if you get a bunch of attacks in a round... but Monks can't benefit from...

I feel like I could make a whole thread of design issues with 5e/5.5e/Offshoots, and then write a whole book about how to fix them.

Not a bad idea to help your players along. For best results: Design magic items that interact with those classes in the way the player has been using them. That way the buff feels more meaningful and distinct. Is your monk using a lot of movement to get around the battlefield to use...

Fun note: That's because of traditional japanese theatre! In traditional japanese theatre you had actors wearing costumes performing on stage, you had sets and staging in the form of furniture and the like, and you had people who wore all black from head to toe that weren't part of the "Scene"...

So let's see... definitely thinking a level 7 required military march. I can call it Battle Hymn, sure. That way it specifically and especially favors Paladins who drop a smite on a crit, and rogues. And then a nice shanty... Adding in the verbal component to the help action essentially...

They do work fine, it just isn't my preferred idea of a bard as someone who can play in multiple spaces. They wind up just being another full-caster with Bardic Inspiration instead of Metamagic. Yup! Suboptimal melee compared to high end spellcasting. Combined with more consistent buffing...

I'd need to go through every bard subclass and add something in for those ones... And also add in a new 9th level feature, as well.

Huh... yeah? That reminds me of Monte Cook's old Bard Revamp in the 3e era. It was in "Book of Eldritch Might 2: Songs and Souls of Power". Instead of having strict spells of different levels, you had notes, chords, and melodies. Notes could be cast as a move action, chords were standard...

It's 2am and I can't sleep so have bardthoughts. Bards are supposed to be the 5th man. In 5e, they're a spellcaster who can do social stuff, some broad skill applicability, and give someone enough of a bonus to do one thing really well in the moment. But 9 times out of 10 they're just going to...

So... Guns are kinda "Whatever", ultimately. In reality, guns essentially (but not entirely) negated armor outside of very thick and heavily curved plates, which is why we imagine conquistadors wearing the breastplate and helmet that we do. They were meant to cause pistol and rifle balls to...