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Do it as a technique and you have uses equal to your proficiency. Call it Fast Footwork. Not sure if it should recharge on a short or a long. You could make it a choice out of several techniques: for example, that would be your Dex-fighter one, while your Constitution-based one could maybe give...

I would like to say that if you want classes to have better firepower without, say, overtaking the Wizard or Sorcerer as blasters, the Warlock framework would be excellent for that. With limited (but high-level) spell slots, you can give certain classes (like the Bard) a few big tricks (let's...

What Warlock-progression does is give you effective spells for your level without giving you all the power of the spell pyramid: you have your big stuff, but you don't have the extra lesser firepower and ability to waste slots on utility spells. Compared to half- or third-casters, I think it's...

It just allows for a bunch of interesting flavor without relying on using spellslots. Imagine if the Circles had their own sets of "Druid Secrets", which act as invocations. The same with Bards and Colleges, where you have individualized "Songs" that they can play, turning them on and off...

Honestly I went into that recent Warlock topic/debate pretty open, and after reading through I think I came down with the idea that we should have more Warlock-style casters rather than less. Bards and Druids are examples, especially after the recent movie didn't have them using spells at all...

Look, if we are assuming people who know what they are doing, I'm not sure how someone who knows what they are doing with 3-4 attacks won't be quicker than someone trying to catch as many people in a fireball blast. Not only that, but the possibility of implied effects (such what @Mistwell...

Yeah, I've never seen martials have much problem figuring out what they are doing. More often you get spellcasters trying to figure out what spell they can use to try and out-think the encounter. Everyone is trying to find something in their repertoire to cut whatever Gordian Knot they think...

Exactly. Monsters are not balanced within each CR so that they are all "equally-viable": that's not a concern for a GM, who just wants something reasonably close to the right amount of challenge. Your monster choice doesn't need to be "optimized" so that you get the best monster from every CR...

But that doesn't solve the problems as much as it just changes the numbers slightly. Plus certain features might not combine well with others: if an animal has two attacks, they get nothing from that upgrade feature. Everything you outline here would be done better with set of base statistic...

The problem with the idea of "You're changing into beasts, not stat blocks" is that you're changing into stat blocks regardless. The difference is that one is curated and specifically balanced to be played in Wildshape while the other is balanced to be played as monsters. The latter doesn't...

For Rangers, they should have a smite-style attack that puts a little extra damage but causes status effects. Bloody mark for bleeding damage, hobbling mark to slow a target, dazing mark to maybe stun it in some way, etc. Really, if you want a niche, a martial who debuffs specific targets would...

More like "I hit you and you are pushed back from the thunderclap" or letting people swing an axe around, burst attack of sound or something. Again, I really hadn't looked hard at how to do it or how to balance it, but I wanted something that went beyond just casting cantrips and more channeling...

When I was making my Revised Fighter, my idea was to spend a spell slot to be able to switch between damage types like Electric, Fire, Cold, or Thunder. It was underdeveloped, but it was because that was the part of the class I focused on least.

If a ranged Paladin is a threat to a Ranger, maybe the Ranger needs to be buffed? Just a thought. It's not like the Ranger is particularly overpowered right now.

The problem with Weapon Masteries is that they are... well, sloppy. Things that are going to be happening in a game like D&D where you can have a bunch of martials with 2 or 3 attacks every turn at higher levels. If you are going to attach them to weapons, the effects should be simple and...

Yeah, it was godawful. Again, lenses and specialties. Put a general, scalable skeleton in there and then customize it via different attacks, movement types, special abilities, etc.

I mean, I know I don't like it, but largely because there are very clearly optimal choices when it comes to this approach because it's almost impossible to balance monsters as both monsters and transformation choices at that level. There is plenty of design space to put a basic template on and...

They are how Pathfinder 2E does it and it's completely viable to do it in 5E. Massive amounts of design room to play with, they just need to be specific in the benefits their templates give for certain creature concepts rather than the very generalized one they did.

The failure of Wildshape in the packet was one of execution, not concept.

Oh absolutely, I was just making a joke about what martials should start thinking about at epic levels. :P