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I'd say that there is a distinction between low optimisation and no optimisation. Low optimisation would be what you'd expect of new players following the suggestions for creating a character from the class in the PHB. Moderate optimisation is going to involve greater levels of synergy in their...

I think that if this is the fundamental issue that you are trying to address, a chat with your players is going to to do much more good than just trying to kill more of their characters. If your players are behaving like this it is far more to do with them deciding to play murderhobo characters...

Not being core doesn't mean that they will be "gone". They're not core in the current edition and they're not "gone" at the moment.

Hang on. What?

Artificer subclass is how I did my version of the Swordmage, on the basis that they channel magic through their weapon, which seems very much in the Artificer concept. The subclass allowed layering more than one infusion into a single item and making attacks in conjunction with casting spells. I...

You'll still have your ability to tear up your players' character sheets in their faces if they take an unlucky crit. Getting 6 levels of exhaustion from the d6 when they first go down is still going to be fatal. It just seemed to be easier to say that failing a death save adds a level of...

Low optimisation: The baseline of the book should be beginner DMs and Players. As players gain experience and learn to optimise, DM's will gain experience and learn to increase encounters and raise difficulties to match. There should be advice for adjusting encounters certainly, but even a...

Ah, but with the adventuring day being cut so short, you will have many more resources to spend to avoid getting hurt. Unlike a divine caster who will likely have to burn most of their spare resources in healing to make up for slower natural healing. furthermore you are affected much less by...

Getting further into the nitty-gritty: Does dropping to 0 HP cause a character to go prone? I'm guessing that characters still take a failed death save if they are hit while on 0 HP, but since they aren't incapacitated, they don't get automatically critted and get two failed death saves...

Sounds like a good time to play an arcane caster!

Yes, but do you regard that as an actual exploit or just playing by what the rules say? I suspect most people draw that line in different places.

How are you defining "exploiting the rules"?

It was an ecosystem largely built on their land that they had opened up to the public themselves. - They weren't expecting people to build large commercial properties competing with them on their own land when they did so. When they tried to reel back in some of the rights to their land, they...

Path of the beast Barbarian only gets one of these abilities that they choose each time you rage. So you get either tail, or bite, or Claws. You'll get three claw attacks at 5th level if you pick claws for that rage. There are options for dragonborn to get flight at level 5 by virtue of their...

Only amongst the Rogues subclasses however. The S-Tier Rogue subclass is not S- or even A- Tier when compared to other classes, particularly casters. Most of the reason that it is considered one of the best Rogue subclasses is that it gets spells. Ideally we would want the Arcane Trickster to...

Publishing a work under the OGL permits you to use the Creator Content Badge. These display the iconic WotC D&D ampersand symbol. It would be entirely possible for a work covered by the OGL to be associated with Hasbro by the public. Indeed, since most people aren't going to have an in depth...

There is no reason that, if in 2035 something that was OK in 2020 is viewed as hateful, the OGL wouldn't restrict it. What will serve to limit NuTSR's content in 2024 will work against hateful content in the 2035 as well, as long as WotC can make it stick.

What would likely happen is that the stuff that people were generally satisfied by probably would not change much, just as we've seen. However rather than the more directed changes that we've seen in things like Dragonborn and Ardlings, where the changes were informed by the written survey...

So, if person A puts in the money to research to develop a new product (including all the lines of research that didn't turn out successful), gets it certified and put through the safety checks, it is fine for company B to then start manufacturing and selling that project at a greater profit...

"Arcane Half-caster" covers a multitude of concepts. Unless this is to be purely a form-filling exercise, something more specific may me needed. This was the start of a rough draft I did of the Swordmage as an Artificer subclass: D&D 5E - Giving the arcane gish an identity.