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The whole setup is a DM fail, not a game mechanic fail. If it's really a "can't win" fight, then why is anybody even rolling dice? If you're insisting on railroading your players, just suck it up and railroad your players. Besides, let's say the Bard does cause Darth Bader to be Frightened...

And 4 cantrips, and IMO Sorcerous Origin should offer a cantrip powerup or cantrip-like class feature that can use Sorcery points (which should be a short-rest resource). Besides, it's not the 2 spells known at level 1 that's too many, it's later on (like 10 at level 9, etc). I know opinions...

I think Sorcerers know too many spells. No really, I'm serious. I'd rather see metamagic expanded considerably to make it more useful. Make it good enough and the sorcerer should barely need more than one spell per spell level. Fixing sorcerers by giving them more known spells just turns...

You're presupposing the resolution mechanism to determine the odds of success. But that's explicitly not what the game says to do. The DM decides odds of success - then, and only then, is the resolution mechanism determined. Can this lead to seemingly incoherent situations? Yes, but not...

The PH isn't even consistent about what size actually means. In one place it's a label for space categories, where space is the combat area and "not an expression of its physical dimensions". Then the description of squeezing in literally the next section implicitly contradicts this (it's also...

Well, like I said, Rogues also get 5d6+ability modifier when Sneak Attacking with a shortbow. Rangers can use a longbow and attack twice for 1d8+ability modifier each time; Colossus Slayer adds another 1d8 or Horde Breaker adds 1d8+ability modifier. With Archery Style, the average DPS winds...

I don't know exactly where you're getting 5d6. At 7th level, yes, a shot with Thunder Monger will deal 2d6 piercing + 3d6 thunder. This is exactly the same damage a 7th level rogue does with a shortbow and Sneak Attack. It's a bit easier to use than Sneak Attack but reloading the Thunder...

Soulknive 5/Fighter 5 can nova quite nicely. Extra Attack + Action Surge + Maneuvers + Hone the Blade + Augmented Weapon + Lethal Strike + Knock Back. That said, building out different options I came to the following opinions: Soulknives don't need so much to be able to learn more...

Makes sense to me: Violence is the last resort - the best path is to defuse a fight before it happens. But if violence has already started the next best option is to end the fight as quickly as possible with the fewest lethal injuries. And since it's the Redemption Paladin that can drop...

The Talents are all "save for zero damage", whereas the ranged blasty discipline powers are almost all "save for half damage", so it's not like you get nothing for spending power points. And by the time Talents are dealing 3 or 4 dice, the Mystic has 64 power points (+9 Mastery points per day...

It does seem to me that the Soulknife looks a bit unfinished around the edges, but it also took me all this time to realize that there's no reason you can't stack Hone the Blade with Augmented Weapon, which means a total of +16 to attack & +12 damage at level 9, and you can do it for basically 4...

I'll grant that Hide and Move Silently are on their skill list, but jeez, Barbarians had 4+Int skill ranks and I don't recall them being considered skill monkeys. Rangers and bards got 6, and Rogues had 8. But it's not the "sneaky" bit that strikes me as most off-character for the Soulknife so...

The 4E Warlord was a Strong Guy (or Gal) that could aid allies with the power of their brain (by being smart and tactical). The 5E Avatar Mystic can be a Strong Guy (or Gal) that aids allies with the power of their brain (by using "psionic powers"). I guess I just don't really care much about...

I never had much attachment to Wu Jen in the past, but that's because "Vaguely Asian Wizard" never did much for me. Giving them sufficiently different fluff and mechanics actually makes them more interesting to me. The Avatar order is kind of interesting in that fluff-wise it sounds a lot like...

I have to assume that Jeremy misunderstood or was just wrong. Without a stat mod to damage, the soul knife would be a worse weapon than even a dagger, and I find it hard to believe that's the intent.

To see how MAD things really are for Immortals/Soul Knives (I suspect not as much as people think), let's see what features actually key off Int. Core Mystic: None, except for Potent Psionics if you have a damage-dealing Talent (these are all ranged) Order of the Immortal: Psionic Resilience...

If you squint real hard, Soul Knife + Nomadic Arrow or Mastery of Wood and Earth = Throw Mind Blade (refluff required), Soul Knife + Giant Growth = Shape Mind Blade (bastard sword), the double shortsword is built in, and Soul Knife + Ranger 11 = BladeWind... But yeah, it'd be kind of nice if...

The Soul Knife does at least get great dual-wielding ability right at level 1. The knives are d8 light finesse weapons. It doesn't stack with Potent Psionics or most of the melee disciplines, but it does work with Ogre/Giant Form and Mantle of Fury. I imagine a multiclass Soul Knife 5/Rogue X...

I'd like to see a "sneaky skill/utility caster" that's more magical than an Arcane Trickster, but not blasty in the way that the Warlock and Sorcerer classes encourage. Preferably Int-based, something like the 3.5 Lurk, but I don't really care whether it has psionic fluff. I'd like to see a...

It doesn't sound like your group is particularly attached to FR lore, so why not just change it a bit? It doesn't have to be entirely option 1, but you could invent a version of Faerun with a bit more interspecies mixing, and not really have to change too much in the AP. Maybe a few hundred...