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No, I totally have. You haven't shown it to be false. Oh, anecdotal evidence now? Every 3.5 table that I've ever seen with a Paladin has left the Paladin player completely dissatisfied with the class. Said Paladin players switched to other classes and enjoyed the game much more. Even if that...

I don't have builds handy offhand, but I'm pretty sure I've seen Wizards routinely buff themselves to the highest ACs in the party. A level 1 character, sure. A Level 10 character? No. But other classes are clearly better at doing what the Paladin is supposed to be doing than the Paladin is...

Well, other than the Druid who could cast Barkskin, the Wizard or Sorcerer who could cast Magic Armor and Shield, the Rogue with a good DEX along with their Uncanny Dodge class feature ... A Paladin with an 18 CHA at Level 10 isn't going to hit anything in combat because that same Paladin...

Actually, yeah, they do. Ability increases were only +1s and only came every 4 levels, so you had to choose whether to boost STR, CHA or WIS. There was a major opportunity cost, and it really hurt MAD classes like the Paladin. Their Fortitude save, sure. Their other saves, absolutely not...

No more than a Fighter or Cleric, who can also wear heavy armor. Fighters could take more feats than the Paladin and Clerics had better spells to improve AC and a whole lot more. Barbarian Rage also improved saves. And as I mentioned above, Paladin saves weren't actually all that great even...

Any Paladin with a "decent" Charisma in 3.5 was not hitting a damn thing in combat because it was sacrificing Strength to get that "decent" Charisma, which would be putting it even further behind any other martial class than they already were. Also don't forget that 3.5 Paladins needed a 14 in...

Except the 3.5 Paladin is not any of those things. They can't even get the AC of a well-feated Fighter usually, let alone that of a full caster, nor do they get the damage reduction of a Barbarian, so they're not good tanks. Their damage sucks, any Barbarian or Fighter with Power Attack is going...

OK, let's compare the 3.5 Paladin to, in the same edition's PHB: Full caster classes: Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha. Next. Barbarian: Barbarian deals more damage with Rage, has full-time damage resistance, better mobility, better hit die. Paladin loses. Bard: Even though Bard only goes up to 6th-level...

There was nothing the 3.5 Paladin could do that a Cleric (especially) or even a Fighter (!) couldn't do infinitely better. Spellcasting is the only significant thing the 3.x Paladin got that scaled with level. And even then, it scaled poorly, thanks to the Paladin's spellcasting level being...

I was close to putting the 1e Thief on the list but decided against it because, while it has the flaws you said, its skills were at least useful once they got to that high level. Also, the 1e Thief levels up insanely fast all the way through.

Right, I forgot about that little discrepancy between PHB and DMG. Not that it helps the Monk a whole lot; the Cleric matrix is typically only 1 or 2 points better than the Thief matrix at the same levels. I was looking at the higher levels, where Monks take 500K XP past level 12 to gain new...

That was the 1e Bard that required levels in Fighter and Thief. It took forever to become one, assuming one even qualified stat-wise in the first place, but it was pretty effective when it did.

With all the talk about how such and such class sucks in 5e, here is a list of the worst classes in the history of Dungeons & Dragons, considering all editions of the game. You will notice that no classes from 5e are on this list. No matter how much you may dislike a class from 5e, you have to...

Sorcerer is a full caster. For that reason alone, it doesn't and indeed can't suck. Ranger is the only class in 5e that actually does, in fact, suck. And even then, it doesn't suck as much as the worst fare in 3e and 4e did. EDIT: Also a reason why Rangers suck is that they are 100x more...

You could really call my viewing of Game of Thrones from Season 5-8 a hate watch. The sharp decline that show underwent after its first 4 seasons was a train wreck, and I just couldn't look away.

The Emmys are worthless. They confirmed that for good when they gave Most Outstanding Drama last year to the worst season of television ever (Game of Thrones Season 8).

Or if they don't want to delay the progression of their main class but would still like a few things from another class.

Eh, I wouldn't take Fighting Initiate before getting a 20 STR/DEX on either one of those classes. Especially not the Barbarian, for whom GWM and possibly PAM are still higher priority feats, as well. I was disappointed at how undercooked Prodigy and Fey Teleporation were in Xanathar's. I'm just...

It looks fine to me. As you said, 2 sorcery points on a class that doesn't have them already isn't going to do anything near what an actual Sorcerer can do. Twinned Spell, for example, is only going to work on another caster class' 2nd-level spells at best, and only once a day if they use it on...

If a non-human or non-half human Wizard or Fighter finally getting to be as good at Arcana or Athletics, respectively, as a Rogue or Bard is "power creep," then I welcome the power creep.