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So it's not white room theory crafting anymore when you apply some wonky, narrow, examples to it. Gotcha. I don't have time to list endless hypotheticals so i'm going to skip on that part. And you can hide behind a "people can play what they want"-trope, sure, but that doesn't change the fact...

Sorry but those are truly terrible examples. The Dex fighter isn't one-shotting anything, that dragon should have been left alone or killed outright and what is the rest of the party doing if winged kobolds are an issue? Paladins must be terrible aswell, by that logic. Dex melee is freakishly...

Yap, and I'm also pretty sure that from a balance-PoV it's a bigger issue to get those rogues to stop sharpshooting and start stabbing stuff more. How is the Rapier the problem here? Start with things like switching initiative to wisdom or int if you think Dex is to stacked but nerfing one...

That's probably something Jeremy Crawford will have to clear up on Twitter later. I can see arguments being made for both sides. The custom lineage can be used as a framework for non-existing (special snowflake) races in 5E, Skaven-like rat people, for example. But just as much for "a special...

Even Thieves Tools is not the "must-bring" it used to be in published material, I think. It was also already widely available to any party member who was looking for it through backgrounds and the like, with classes like Rogue and Bard having some extra bonusses on top (who will still be your...

Pop Mirror Image and re-live those Warcraft 3 days :P

For sure, powercreep-wise this book did very little. There arn't any subclasses that are pushed like Hexblade was, for example, and they made some very clear decisions on not breaking the concentration-rule (with Hunter's Mark) or giving easy AoE to Melee (no Spirit Guardians on paladins). The...

Warforged College of Eloquence Bard would be super powerful, and it's bardic inspiration would have some nice synergy with the Monk's stunning strike and Druid's spells. Making sure Faerie Fire lands seems pretty damn nice in that party and it only scales from there. Flavour-wise C3PO comes to...

RAW you can't swap the feat for 2 stats, I think, but +2+2 and darkvision is pretty much a Dwarf that was to lazy to ever learn anything :p

Definatly S tier aswell. How it compares to Human variant depands on a few things, mostly how your stat-spread works out with the feat you are planning to pick up (and some what on how much you think darkvision is going to matter). And obviously if you can sell your DM on things like a Custom...

Satyr can automaticly get added to that list but Halfling, Warforged, Kobold, Goblin, Gith and Simic Hybrid are also a lot more competitive now. Dragonborn still a dumpster fire confirmed.

Yeah my bad, I thought the new invocation said "familiars get an action", but it's "attack".

I'm not 100% sure how it's worded but I think that when you get the attack option with a stat-block monster you just get to choose one of the options listed, following rules like "Multi-attack: 2x claw, 1 bite, 1 tail attack" or "once per short rest" ofcoarse. If a monster has 2 options listed...

I Never looked into Oathbreaker much but I really like @Paul Farquhar 's suggestion with Fey Touched, esspecialy if you can get 17 Cha initially. Getting those spells on top of your normal level 4 stat-bump is nice. That wouldn't fit into a human variant build if you want 16 str aswell though...

Personally I have always been thoroughly confused by the fact that A feats are an "optional" rule in 5E (Although so deeply ingrained in D&D that I havn't seen many tables where they wern't standard) and B they didn't just make "feat at level 1" baseline. I guess it had something to do with...

Oath of Vengeance Paladins ;) Loosing Spirit Guardians was a big F though. I'm really not a fan of this "melee can't have AoE"-rule they keep going for.

I disagree. Even as an optimiser myself I think the dominance of Human Variant was way to much before and I'm convinced these chances will only increase race variety at tables.

Ohh yeah, those tool proffeciencies definatly got things like Magic Resistance on Yuan-ti and Satyrs beat out. Wait. What?

Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with the system you are describing and how it enhances character-depth and engagement, it's just that those are still mostly homebrew systems and it's kind of impossible to say anything meaningful about how powerful tool profs are then. My main point, which...

Also, special mention to halflings (esspecialy Stout and Ghostwise). Their kit has always been loaded and now every class can use it.