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Have you looked at 5e polearm master or watched people fight with quarterstaff-type weapons? You can still parry and can hit people to the front, back and sides of you. (5e indicates that you can swing around with a lance or a pike).

And yet, even with trained sword fighters on an open field, even when combatants are engaging from multiple directions, spears win. In 5e a character with a lance or pike can swing around "Orc: Dat humie only gotz wun [little swordy bit]. So if we [surround] ‘em with our long spears while Og...

With fair thought: A: "I can only think that there are some things that the sword is better at, there must be some scenarios where the sword triumphs, so I think there should be an experiment." B: "SCIENCE!!!" Even among participants who had mainly trained with swords and similar. with...

c,mon the brits. https://www.britannica.com/topic/phalanx-military-formation "From the founding of their city-state until the close of the 2nd century BC, the Romans found the Greek-style phalanx suitable for fighting in the plains of Latium. The basic weapon for this formation was a thrusting...

The Roman legions did pretty well against all types of weapon with either gladius or spear in tight, close combat, phalanx formations. The gladius also had that much sort after, mobile advantage of being hands free, at least while not in use. Nonetheless, you make a great point and my every...

Spears were, quite simply better than swords in every respect - except portability, accessibility, and glinty swingyness - but they were (be it marginally and with requirements for equivalent levels of training) better weapons, as weapons My edited suggestion is: Spear (when used with...

Long live Sparta (and the rest of history more honestly) Spear: d8; versatile d10, and when used two-handed, can be lunged one-handed (d8) with reach. That's how I think spears should be used. =D Please adopt. edit (10:50) 20/5/23: Thanks for the wealth of great response. How about...

Whereas, in reality, it's the weapon most compatible with reach. After holding a spear with both hands you can lunge with it with your hand at the back. There's also the problem that, while the rapier is d8, the spear, somehow, is just d6. It's also underrepresented in reenactments - where...

Battleaxe 18 Crossbow, heavy 16 Dagger 23 Flail 15 Glaive 31 Greataxe 22 Greatsword 20 Halberd 29 Handaxe 16 Longbow 24 Longsword 27 (corrected) Mace 21 Morningstar 8 Quarterstaff 18 Scimitar 27 Shortbow 26 Shortsword 23 Spear 17 I don't understand the hate for the most utilized weapon in...

So how many ASI +2s/feats would one level be worth if, for instance, your highest roll was 14 and your strongest racial mod was +2? Would getting to 20 in your primary stat be worth a level or would you also want something more?

Those are great thoughts and it sounds like feats, even starting with lower value when compared to level, lose value later. I guess at these stages characters might invest in ASIs and resiliences... Perhaps the idea of trading levels for feats may be better for time-limited...

It's certainly happened that GMs have started campaigns while allowing even starting characters to have a free initial feat. I'm postulating that it might be possible for a GM also to say that players could either start at x level or to have one of those progression levels swapped for n feats...

I've really tried to address that as per the amended OP: Otherwise, if the offer was made on repeat, a character might opt for feat/s at every stage and still not be greatly far behind characters that didn't opt for extra feats. There are 44 feats in the basic rules and phb. We might begin to...

Battleaxe 20 Crossbow, heavy 18 Dagger 23 Flail 19 - 2 = 17 Seriously flails were a mad weapon for use with a group of fighters Glaive 32 Greataxe 21 Greatsword 20 Halberd 28 Handaxe 18 Longbow 23 Longsword 28 Mace 21 Morningstar 14 Quarterstaff 20 Pike 3 Scimitar 29 Shortbow 24 Shortsword 23...

If a GM wants to wall off a whole category and if players are still keen to play, anything goes. In a former version (I think of AD&D) a gnome could be an illusionist but not a mage, a halfling could be a cleric but not a monk, an elf could be a mage but not an illusionist and a half-orc could...

I don't know of any evidence to specify any accent to any of the LotRs peoples. Tolkein, however, did indicate that he had "no doubt that... all users of the [C.S.] C[ommon] Speech would reveal themselves by their accent" in his Letter [numbered] 193:

I agree that levels are valuable but, in terms of their value in advancement, if a character with a base in any other class chose to take a multiclass dip into fighter they'd get: It's pretty good for a dip, but it's an option that many would still take for its progression to fighter 2 and...

Yeah, I guess that's one of the things that makes the question difficult to answer and from responses, priorities may vary from class to class. Well, a fighter's immediate advancement to level 9 would give indomitable, a hit dice AND level progress one step closer to getting to levels 10 (which...