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This is precisely the argument in favor of use-limited abilities. First, it completely avoids ruining the game's core math. Second, it can be much more easily balanced against standard attacks. And third, of course, the higher tier debuffs (blind, stun, sicken, etc.) can't be easily balanced on...

No; the difference is between default-allow and default-deny. The general availability of Teleport, barring some specific setting considerations, is "Yes." And even if Teleport is specifically out, any number of other fiat spells are in the PHB. Again, by default. You can see it above; there's...

Yeah, I still have no idea what that means. :) I'm going to guess you're making a joke, but really I have no idea. I mean, if your paradigm is that, if you lose hit points to a sword, the sword has cut into you and you're hurt, what does it look like when a sword hits you and it's temp HPs? Do...

Okay, for starters, every RPG requires collaboration between players and DMs, and there will always be this sort of interplay when players think up something outside the rules. This is good, because otherwise the rules would be unwieldy. It's a normal part of gameplay. Where it runs into...

I can't understand how pretend hit points are more sim-friendly than actual hit points. :) What does a temp HP even look like if you're using an HP = meat paradigm, anyway? At any rate, temp HP and actual healing are significantly different, tactically speaking. Temp HP can't get you back up...

The balance point should be at "challenging." Then you can scale up or down for harder and easier at will.

Psst... On the Internet, D&D history started with 3e, and anything that originated in 3e qualifies as "in the game forever." ;)

For the first part, that's what options are all about. And I've seen nothing about the 5e rule set that would make (a) martial healing, (b) fighters with declarative abilities, or (c) out-of-combat non-spell fiat, incompatible with the existing core options. It might be incompatible with how...

They're already back. :) They're an optional rule in the DMG as I think was pointed out upthread?

Need to accept what? That the game's a closed book rather than a living, changing edition? No way. :) And what playstyle would that be exactly?

It is! It's great! And this is one way to expand the options, so even more folks are happy! Just because your favorite Fighter made the cut already, doesn't mean that the folks looking for more should be shut out. (And if the only way for you to be happy is for the only options around to be the...

And yours? So does 1e. So does 3e. So does OD&D. Irrelevant.

So in other words, "screw you, I got mine?" Nice. Nobody's asking WotC to take away anything.

Off topic, but... Inspiring warlords are actually first rate. Warlords are the only class who can get an extra use of their Inspiring Word with a feat at Paragon, and have a bevy of feats to improve them further. And they have a great minor action utility which tosses out 2 surges. And there's...

The process isn't simulative, but the results work just fine. You're good at detecting lies all the time, but by declaring it, you get to shift the outcome of this particular event. To the characters in the game, everything "looks" fine. The narrative of the game is uninterrupted and...

I said upthread - the Valor Bard is certainly the closest thing this edition has to it. What it's missing are mainly enabling abilities and team tactical abilities. And remember, 4e had a valor bard as well, which was a whole lot closer to the 5e valor bard than the warlord ever was. Respecting...

Yep, I would agree whole-heartedly. Thunderspire, too, had a lot of potential for campaign play. Funny how those are tied together, too, isn't it? Now if only the first adventures for 4e were more like Zeitgeist... :cool: Yeah. 4e works better with fewer, but important and well designed...

It's kinda been covered a few times upthread. But the role is a battle-capable (though not dominant) character, capable of performing a variety of buffing, enabling, and healing/damage mitigation/etc. actions. Reskinning is well and good, but you have to remember the first rule of reskinning...

I also have to suggest the HPE series as among the worst adventures ever published. While H2 and P2 were at least decent, they were major contributors to 4e's poor reception and terrible showcases for the edition's strengths. They didn't even follow the DMG's own advice.

Uh. What? It should not be as good at fighting as the fighter. That's the entire discussion. Read the earlier parts of the thread. The fighter chassis has too much offensive ability baked in for that to end up balanced whatsoever. As good as a war cleric? Sure. Fighter? No. That's not a...