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Mind Thrust only limits the enemy's action to Dash or Disengage. It doesn't force them to use any of their movement. So they could Dash/Disengage/Do Nothing plus not move, and avoid triggering the rider damage from Booming Blade. So it would basically just cause them to waste their Action...

Charms are all WIS. CHA saves are only used for a few spells, like Bane, Banishment, and Magic Jar, and a few monster abilities, like a ghost's Possession. Madness effects can require either a WIS or CHA save.

That's Wolf Totem. Bear Totem gives you resistance to all damage (except psychic).

According to recently published stats, approximately 63% of play is in Tier 1, 27% is in Tier 2, 5% is in Tier 3, and 5% is in Tier 4. As a result, the percentage of players who would utilize Tier 5 content would most likely be less than 5% of the D&D player base. And of those <5%, a much...

Most of the time, in my experience, the Moon Druid is a Tank. They're kind of the epitome of the "facetank" in 5E, with a low AC but high HP pool available, plus healing while Wild Shaped by burning spell slots, designed to soak up a large percentage of enemy attacks.

You could probably come up with something homebrewed relatively easily, such as (off the top of my head): Level 1: Gain bite attack doing 1d6+STR (or maybe +WIS?), plus Martial Weapon proficiency. Bite Attack usable as a Bonus Action WISMOD times per day. You also gain proficiency with...

Another good option, if you're okay with not having 19-20 crits 100% of the time, would be a Hexblade/Paladin. The build starts out similar to the Hexblade5/Fighter4 build I outlined above, with 5 levels of Hexblade. But then you take 4 levels of Oath of Heroism Paladin. You still get the...

D&D 3/3.5 and Pathfinder used d3s. Off the top of my head, some 0-level spells had d3 effects, and Medium weapons with 1d4 damage did 1d3 damage when sized for a Small character, or when a character was under the effect of Reduce Person. There are probably a few more examples. I have a couple...

Ditto. I'm about 5% DM, 95% Player.

Resilient CON is kind of a no-brainer to take at some point for just about any caster with an odd CON score (with the main exceptions being Sorcerers or multiclass casters that start out with 1 level in Fighter, since they get CON proficiency already). More HP and much better Concentration...

Yep. Also affected by some of the feats not being in the core rules, so you have to own a digital copy of the book in order to utilize them on D&D Beyond. (Or at least be in a D&D Beyond campaign with someone who's sharing the book with the group.) So the numbers on a feat like Elven Accuracy...

D&D Beyond's statistics that they publish regularly show that the majority of characters are Levels 1-4 (~63%), and almost all characters are Level 10 or under (~90%). https://www.enworld.org/threads/90-of-d-d-games-stop-by-level-10-wizards-more-popular-at-higher-levels.666097/ Only ~5% of...

I see it mostly on Variant Humans taken as their free Level 1 feat... And not much on others. Ritual Caster (Wizard) seems to be more popular, from what I can tell. Spell Sniper seems to be even more popular, especially Spell Sniper (Warlock) for Sorcerers and sometimes Bards/Paladins to get...

Any build that relies on two feats will usually take until Level 8 to come online anyway. Nearly all characters get their first feat at Level 4, and their second feat at Level 8. You can get two feats earlier with a Variant Human, but that's not an option since you want to take Elven Accuracy...

This is the major limiting factor for Divine Soul Sorcerers... Yes, they have access to twice as many spell options. But they're still limited in spells known, like all Sorcerers. So they're not as versatile as a true Cleric, but are still a good option for certain specific builds utilizing...

That's debatable. In 2E, he was a straight 16th level Ranger, due to multiclassing restrictions, so it's not easy to pinpoint what exactly his level was when he made it to the surface. But it's safe to say that he had been on the surface for more than one effective level. In 3E, his official...

His Pact has to be Blade if he wants to use a Greatsword with Hex Warrior for CHA to Attack/Damage. Hex Warrior can only be used on one-handed weapons or Blade Pact Weapons. (Which also means he'll need to use a different weapon like a Longsword until he hits Warlock 3, at which time he can...

Honorable mention to Achilles and Hector in Troy. (But I get why they weren't included, since it is not "high fantasy".)

In-combat healing can also be useful when the enemy is coming in "waves". For example, you just beat one group of foes, but there's another group headed your way that will be on you in a couple rounds, or a minute, or whatever. You can take that short breather to top up the most injured PCs...

That itself isn't especially compelling. Many of those concepts exist independent of D&D, and many of them predate D&D.