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So does Diomedes (and he also hits Aphrodite and tries to hit Apollo). There's other examples, the Kojiki from Japan has various legendary emperors defeating various gods and some Pacific Islander (both Polynesian and Melanesian but not the same stories everywhere) have tales of mortals...

Other way around. The books were based (loosely) on the game, they wouldn't have been written if it wasn't coming out.

Not hyperbole, a matter of opinion. What abilities do you see the Fighter getting in the playtest that are actually high-powered? The peak of of weapon mastery is combining two abilities that you can have at 1st level; it's pathetic to pretend that makes it something that needs to be kept till...

If they're not comparable to casters at high levels, then just make Fighter a class with 10 levels and have them get all their abilities in those levels. Make it explicit that this is a game where anyone who doesn't have spells doesn't have high-levels because their abilities stop. Stop...

If anything the playtest package suggests a significant increase in that disparity. Look at what Sorcerors and Wizards got. Didn't exactly work out well in 3e, that. Could it be done better? Perhaps, but then you'd really have to give some spectacularly powerful feats at higher levels to even...

Presumably with a bow, or else the target is outside melee range after the first hit. It won't always be convenient or even possible to move after them for melee attacks. Although the image of driving someone back across the room with a series of strikes is very cinematic it's not obviously a...

"Wizards deal with magic. If you don't attack them with magic, don't carry magic, they're dependent on mundane abilities and some pretty cantrips. And they're probably not going to win a fight with you as they don't tend to wear much armour or practice hard with weapons. Sure, you'll want a...

I'm so angry I can see the invisible thief.

Traveller, I would say. It's got Traveller 5, and Mongoose Traveller 2e (and Cepheus Engine based off MgT 1e). You could certainly make an argument that both companies involved are pretty small, though that argument applies across most of the "industry" and of course it's two(+) different...

No, you can't. But you can deliver a great deal more than just a tiny amount of extra damage. How many of the Master Effects that are proposed are impressive compared to what the BECM character could get? AD&D weapon specialisation delivers +1 to hit, +2 to damage and an attack every other...

And then you have classes that pretty much can do all those things, and hey it turns out they're all spellcasters. Or at least in 5e had to take a background which gave them the skill which made that unique ability into something literally anyone could take. 5e Cleric with the Trickery domain...

Here's a few weapons from BECM D&D with what you get for having various levels of Mastery with them. First, the rather nice two-handed sword Basic, 1 attack, 1d10 damage, no special abilities Skilled, 2d6+1 damage, stun and deflect(1) - stun forces a saving throw vs death ray to avoid being...

Is that good for the Fighter? Abilities that seem appropriate for 1st/2nd level are held back to 4th because otherwise someone might take a dip to grab them? You get no significant abilities till 5th level because another class might find them useful? Doesn't seem like it makes the Fighter a...

The other thing to do would be to create a bind with the two primary weapons to leave you a chance to force the issue with your second, though your opponent will probably try to grab or block/deflect with their hand in that case. Although if they're using a long weapon - a spear, many polearms...

What's a weapon? It's something that you can strike, deflect or block with rather than using your body. You can hit people with a shield. You can hit them with different parts of a weapon, you can even engage them with your body while you hold a weapon. You can deflect a strike with your sword...

If i didn't care about the experience the rules provide what would be the point of expressing an opinion on them. D&D has been changed before in mechanical terms - 3e to give a very obvious example decided to change how saving throws worked dramatically to weaken high-level characters'...

We've got more than 4,000 years of "martials with superpowers" to look at. Any problem is entirely caused by a refusal to allow any of them to be used. Casters also get that. Plus a wide range of actually superpowerful abilities.

Really WotC should take a look at what the weapon-mastery rules from BECMI D&D did for Fighters By comparison the stuff they're presenting here is anaemic. Extra attacks, better AC, more damage with each attack, various special effects including causing fear... Things along those lines. Rules...

Where are you getting the idea of a "general consensus that Fighters are a strong class in 5e"? There seem to be an awful lot of threads all over the place saying that they're not and that there's a large disparity between them and casters. Which doesn't seem too likely to be a sign of how...

So where are the complaints about mages with immortal ancestry and their superpowers that should be made more relatable? Aragorn may be a mid-level warrior, Hercules a high-level one; the whole refusal to tolerate any martial becoming more powerful than Aragorn is by far the largest reason these...