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No, I think that there is a middle ground between rocket tag and non-threatening combat, rather than just those two extreme positions. The suggestions already mentioned of adding Temp HP, or allowing the recipient to spend some of their hit dice fall into that middle ground. The discussion is...

You could lean into that further in a worldbuilding sense. Remove Orcs as an always evil race, with orc children always growing up evil. Instead introduce the concept that you mention above: Orcs are what happens when a being of any intelligent race chooses a path of rage and violence against...

I play support characters quite often and while I will often cast a cure wounds spell to try to prevent a character going down, in the majority of cases I would have been better off using those resources beforehand, to prevent that damage. Preventing damage through effectively ensuring that...

Yes? But in terms of the claim that I was addressing ("Most of the class options are found in subclasses, not spells"). I thought that a quick fact check was in order. And yes, a spellcaster will probably only have (Ability mod + half level) of these class abilities, chosen (often daily) from a...

In the aesthetics of character concept, particularly in the distinction between martial and spellcaster, making a class a spellcaster would . . . make them a spellcaster. Well, yes. If one aesthetic is lacking in power, then bringing it closer to balance with the others is going to make it more...

The Tarrasque is a pretty iconic high-level threat for a party. I'm guessing that you'd be OK with a mixed-class 4-person party defeating it? What would each member's role be in that confrontation? Do you feel that parties consisting of all Clerics, all Rogues, or all Wizards should be capable...

It wouldn't have been an ancient dragon, but if you accept that a round of attacks on a single target can be flavoured as single, telling blows, a T4 Paladin willing to spend spell slots can deal a lot of damage in two rounds. Particularly if they get some crits.

That makes sense. My 5e experience is from the UK, and a lot of the D&D metrics that they have announced don't fit with my experience with my own group or the AL league and university club.

I believe that you may have those the wrong way around. I can assure you that the people who like paging through several different sourcebooks to find the optimal form for this specific situation aren't the ones who focus on roleplaying. Roleplayers will often want their druid to turn into the...

Oof. I was actually hoping that it would flatten out the graphs. :blush:

Experienced combatants having more combat move is certainly do-able. We already know that the combat move, and even Dash are not the limit on how fast a person can run, but rather how fast they can move whilst retaining situational awareness and ability to react to threats. (Actual sprinting...

I'm actually thinking that using a Tasha's summon spell rather than direct damage for the highest slot used might be an easier and fairer comparison - They scale with the spell slot used, they use the concentration slot, (which is an important factor for casters) and they are single target melee...

You could use a power structure similar to the Monk, but actually using the Monk class wouldn't work for the same reason you can't make a mythic warrior out of the Fighter class: The Monk has too much baggage with its existing abilities and not enough width to make a mythic warrior just a...

This will create a large disparity between casters who can add bonus damage to their cantrips, and those that cannot. Warlocks could already effectively do this, but the aforementioned Draconic Sorceror will probably be doing twice as much damage as other Sorceror subclasses for example.

Ooohkay. I think that you will need to explain yourself regarding what you just said. I'm sure that you didn't actually intend to suggest that I omitted context or selectively quoted your post. Partly because that would be in breach of the forum rules that you have agreed to abide by, and partly...

All PCs can contribute. All have ability scores, 4 proficiencies, a background feature and a player with a working brain. All classes have additional features that allow them to contribute outside of combat. The suggestion is to give the fighter class options to bring their non-combat options...

Like what? Anti-magic is probably the most serious, but is very rare. Dispel is a risk for some, components are a factor in some as well. Designing the extended martial abilities either taking these into account, or giving them different weaknesses would be entirely possible. Wizards would have...

Yes? I'm not sure what you are getting at? This, (or any other ability equivalent to a 9th level spell) would be available to the Expanded Martial class at the same level that casters get 9th level spells. I'm not dancing around talking about an ability equivalent to a 9th level spell. I am...

The "Anticipation" or whatever the similar-to-Foresight ability will be called is not only very flexible, the idea would be that it would be one out of a list of options to choose from. These would be for the "Expanded Martial" class, one of which's man purposes would be to overcome the...

"Different and special that other classes can't do" is not the same as "better than every other class" out of combat. For example giving the Fighter the ability to train a rabble of commoners into an effective fighting force during a short period of downtime is not something any other class can...