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It was turned in that direction as a red herring: suggest that the only reason for criticizing of the Fighter's design /must/ be with the end goal of convincing WotC to redesign the Fighter soon, and since WotC has no plans to redesign the Fighter soon, that discussing the Fighter's design...

They released 5th edition in 2014. The surveys came in 2015 nearly a year later. The revised class isn't appearing in 2017. It's a long process. People are also still discussing balance regarding feats, skills, spells, etc, and those are pretty much all "done with" too. People continue to...

and the Ranger is also a very popular class- nearly as much as the classic Fighter/Rogue/Cleric/Wizard. It's the first class that's going to undergo a major revision. Popularity doesn't mean nobody has an issue with a class. Entirely untrue. Back in 3e, people complaining about Fighter...

A Warlock that has only eldritch blast and a couple invocations does give you interaction with the spell mechanics- if you want. Eldritch blast is pretty much a cantrip and many invocations allow you to cast actual vancian spells along the per-rest recharge mechanic. But if you want, you could...

I think that a simple caster could gain a lot of traction. People often hand the new guy a Fighter first as they're the simplest and suggest that magic is for when you understand the rules better. But there are lots of people who would like to play a spellcaster of sorts and spend every round...

You're absolutely right. I'm thinking of the bonuses to defense.

I do have to say that I miss 4e, where your class would give you a bonus to the ability scores most useful to that class. Placed less priority on the race to deliver that bonus when you knew your class was going to give it to you instead. Then again, a lot of people still tried to stack every...

Then you should probably be asking for MORE simple classes with few features outside of the combat pillar instead of piling that onto a single class. Seems rather odd that your desire for simplicity begins and ends with the guy who's approach to combat is fighting like your usual fantasy hero...

My point was that the fighter does not get the number of or power of non combat options the other classes get. And that classes that do get those abilities don't really give up that much in the combat department. Basically that other classes get features to excel at exploration/social...

Except that you can't really talk about class design without talking about feel because that's a major contributing factor in how classes get designed. It's why 5e classes are different from 4e classes which are differentry from 3e. Yeah, the feeling that Fighters don't get...

It's not putting out as much raw reliable damage as the fighter, but to suggest that a Rogue doesn't contribute anything in a fight is just not true. The conditions of sneak attack include 1) Did you get advantage and 2) is an ally standing next to your foe. Not particularly difficult or...

There's also "Game of Thrones-style" where it's just Humans and all other races, including Elves (children of the Wood) are NPCs/monsters.

There's also "Game of Thrones-style" where it's just Humans and all other races, including Elves (children of the Wood) are NPCs/monsters.

More like... Rogue is supposed to be the skills-focused class that focuses more on exploration/social pillars, but also gets Sneak Attack to contribute in combat. All spellcasters get combination of spells that contribute in combat as well as wide selections of spells that allow them to...

It was once the case that in D&D, Elves and Dwarves couldn't even be members of the "human only" classes as that would be too powerful when combined with their innate racial traits as represented in their classes. Then they got some access to some classes, but curiously enough but you still...

It's a problem with how the spells within the schools are organized. For example, controlling fire is a transmutation school spell, being immune to fire is an abjuration, while shooting fire from your hands is evocation, and summoning fire elementals is a conjuration. As opposed to there being a...

When Eberron first launched, the races were popular and write ups in DMGs have tips on how to integrate them into other settings. In 4e, when "everything became core", they even made it into the later PHBs. I think Dragonborn are more of a hot topic because they were in the first PHB for 4e...

When Eberron first launched, the races were popular and write ups in DMGs have tips on how to integrate them into other settings. In 4e, when "everything became core", they even made it into the later PHBs. I think Dragonborn are more of a hot topic because they were in the first PHB for 4e...

I think D&D really subverted the knight vs dragon archetype when they introduced the idea of Metallic Dragons. Honestly, before I played D&D, I had never really heard of "good" dragons (outside of Asian ones), let alone dragons that actively battled their more evil kin. Well there was...

All the D&D classes are human-centric as all of them are more or less derived from traditions/vocations found throughout human history. All D&D races also tend to fit into distinctly human archetypes.