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I wouldn't either. 2h Fighter with GWM does not have massively increased damage over the baseline. GWM + PAM + Precision attack human variant BM Fighter is a much more optimised character and their damage can be much higher.

That is what I'm hoping to happen. All classes brought to the same general level rather than the experts and martials only having a couple of hyperoptimised builds able to compete with a generic full caster.

They aren't arguing the math, they are pointing out the reality of how most people play. Using Sentinel, or Haste and then holding your action and similar strategies are known by a lot of Rogue players, but actually utilising them is a thing mostly done by fairly heavy optimisers. Yes, the...

Hex is on the spell list for Bards. It isn't a signature spell for them unless you choose to make a bard focused on it.

The Ranger playtest document already demonstrates how they work around this: The Ranger is allowed to access Fighting Style feats despite not being a Warrior class. The grouping is there to apply general rules, but I'm pretty sure that every class is going to have specific exceptions to some of...

The cost of the materials for Plate armour are only a very small fraction of the cost of the armour. The armourers who will be making it will probably be used to fitting specific patterns to a humanoid, and will have to create completely new pieces designed for that particular dog. Add to that...

I don't see a balance issue: I removed the Finesse requirement for Sneak Attack for 5e and I've not seen any thematic or balance issues. We will probably have to wait for the Warrior playtest to see weapon rules: so far only the change to the Light property and the interaction of Heavy with GWM...

I like the change, but I am going to be keeping a very close eye on the development of the other classes. I do not regard the changes as "Making martials weaker", just making a couple of specific builds of martials more in line with the others. Hopefully now martials can be balanced against...

A couple more I think. Current 13 classes might be hard to incorporate together to remove any given what we know of the way oneDnD is structured. Plus I'd like to see one or two more classes that aren't represented currently.

I think this is one of those occasions where the 5e ruleset conflicts with observable reality, so you need to consult your DM for their decision on the matter.

I think that they're saying that it will exacerbate the 15 minute work day rather than solving it. Out of all the reasons that spellcasters are problematic in 5e, their cantrip damage is rarely an issue.

I think perhaps you should refresh yourself on the discussion we're actually having. It is not specifically about melee. We are talking about the Fighter being able to impose disadvantage to hit opponents other than themselves if they land a blow. That is a control and support ability as...

Damage per hit. I am assuming a 66% (2/3rds) hit chance for the Fighter. Paladin I'm assuming 66% hit chance at 5th level (same as fighter), but only 60% chance at 11th level (to represent Fighter having +1 from their extra ASI). Indeed. At 66% hit chance only 4 of those extra attacks hit...

OK. It looks like you have changed the comparison to only base class, no subclass. So let us have a look at your maths: 6 more attacks a day at 5th level, compared to 14d8s worth of extra damage. Fighter needs to average 15 damage a hit to keep up. That is seriously impressive at 5th level...

The old UA weapon feats had effects that occurred when you have advantage and hit on both dice. That would still require advantage, but be a compromise between the ease of just needing advantage, and the rarity of needing a crit to get the special effect. As you say, this would need additional...

I'm not sure I see that. The Paladin is still swinging the same weapon, with the same Fighting Style and damage bonus as the Fighter. Even looking at the Battlemaster and assuming the apparently rather unusual full two-short-rest adventuring day, the point at which a Paladin gets more d8s...

Another option would be adding an element of randomness but without requiring something as rare as a crit to do something interesting. e.g. The class has an "Opportunity die" which increases as the class levels that is rolled at the same time as their damage roll. If the roll is even, they...

I mean, this is not the Fighter we're talking about. This is a new class not beholden to the design of the Fighter. For instance we don't need Extra Attack. We can use maneuvers spending superiority dice to provide damage instead.

Probably better to go the battlemaster or warblade route, where you have either a range of different abilities that you know and a separate pool of uses of which, or to have a range of different abilities and the ability to pick out a smaller range that you can perform. Having a range of...

I'm not saying that I agreed with them. But I would make an equivalence between picking a fighting style and choosing a cantrip or spell as a discrete choice of a new class feature.