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I have to admit, I do not like Flex as a property. Versatile weapons can already use Duellist weapon mastery and a shield when used in one hand. I want to see a reason to use one in two hands, or switch around, not just to reinforce what is already the best style. Maybe Flex could allow the...

Bardic inspiration isn't listed as magical. What is the other characters don't want to be inspired? They can just choose not to use the ability being granted. I'm not sure that that would actually reflect what some people were after. Support abilities are pretty much what the class does. It...

Depends on whether those attacks would have killed a significant number of the opponents in the first three rounds. However, bear in mind that if you're up against high-AC opponents, you can just not use the power attack option. Needing 11+ to hit at base for most characters using...

No, the whole point of the fighter concept is that they aren't a primary spellcaster. The fighter that doesn't cast spells is generally doing so because they can't, not because they don't want to. If their character concept including "casting spells" than it is likely that they are not playing a...

That would be why I specified "pre-adventuring career" rather than the multiclass rules for in-play. Now we're getting somewhere! How would you adjust the Champion and Battlemaster to keep them at the same capability of your new Eldritch Knight? So what? Even melee-focused casters are...

So how many weeks of pre-adventuring career do you think it takes to gain full casting? So like the way that the casting subclasses of Rogues and Fighters should match or only be slightly behind the dedicated spellcasting classes for casting spells? No it wasn't. You initially used it in the...

Its not a bad metaphor. You have three baskets, one for each pillar; Combat/Exploration/Social. Fighter as base might get a distribution of 7/1/1. Wizard 3/1/1. Then each character gets 5 more eggs to distribute amongst the baskets representing character builds. However a wizard also gets 10...

? Of course you could. Being good at tripping and other tactical maneuvres etc still isn't going to prevent the fighter being overshadowed in combat by the blademaster, his simulacrum, and both of their summons for example. Being able to rush around striking multiple opponents won't stop blade...

How would giving fighters "exclusive martial abilities that surpass the capabilities of other classes" prevent those other classes contributing in a meaningful fashion? Just because the Fighter is better at tripping, or manoeuvring through battle, or inflicting bleeding attacks, that doesn't...

Could you give us some recent examples? I'm always on the lookout for new things to try that will make my DM wince as she tries to adjudicate them. What made you feel that? To me, the 4e fighter powers fit the "master of tactical and martial combat" fantasy extremely well. Why without using...

I . . . see. Which would you characterise me as? Everyone gets superheroic plot armour however. Not just martials. They don't have even the other capabilities of Hawkeye, Black Widow, or Black Panther either.

Knowing why the players in your groups would react with such unreasoning hate against someone that they play alongside might suggest solutions to such social disfunctions. Does the DM have a history of deliberately and unjustifiably messing with the players so they are already predisposed to...

Who the heck is your social circle, that this is going to be the reaction of the players in your groups? Ignoring the factual inconsistency of the claim that there is only one 2d6 weapon, you don't seem to be taking into account the other weapon properties.

This is very powerful. - Being able to dodge as a reaction and zig-zag through the fight without suffering attacks of opportunity are both useful. I'm not sure that the weapon restriction is necessary. - You can still perform both abilities in heavy armour, which is realistic, but deflecting an...

If the summon spells from Tasha's are used instead, they get a scaling amount of HP so no temp HP required. Those spells also do mirror the extra attacks of fighters pretty well.

Part of the issue is that not many groups actually use the 8-encounter adventuring day in which the fighters get to show how reliable they are. If the adventuring day only has a couple of encounters in it, then fighters can and do get out damaged. As I mentioned earlier, even if you restrict...

This isn't a massive departure from Kobold Press' general marketing material, particularly from their Black Flag playtest documents. While their statements seem gauged by their lawyers to be true enough to not allow lawsuits, they are pushing a certain narrative very heavily. The insinuations...

Indeed. Low-level spells used as utility are enablers, often just giving auto-success or greater results for an ability check. As higher level spells are introduced, their capabilities start to accelerate beyond the realms of what non-spellcasters can hope to achieve. As characters get to higher...

True. We went on a slight digression when someone claimed that the suggested extra feats would all be spend on combat feats, but in general I think the idea for the extra feats is to improve the out of combat capabilities. I'm not thinking fighting against each other. Just how well each would...

Hasn't been specified. Generally people will pick BM if they want to show that Fighters are good in combat because it is very optimisable. I don't know much about Echo Knight.