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Because I'm lazy and didn't want to have to redo T1, I went with the following AC: T1=17, T2 = 18, T3 = 19, and T4 = 20. The results were interesting. I'll try to write up the tables tonight, when I have time. To summarize, T1 remains 3.38 damage / CR. Unless you treat CR 1 as part of the...

This is quite interesting, but I think it's missing the other factor of offensive CR; namely, attack bonus. In 5e, AC is relatively static compared to earlier editions (particularly 3.x and 4e, both of which assumed a scaling AC), but attack bonus does scale with CR (it increases by +7 from CR...

Fair, although the high HP of 5e monsters means it's hardly a guarantee, unless they're very low CR mooks. A CR 1 bear has 34 HP. A CR 2 Giant Constrictor Snake has 60. By the time you get your second attack you're potentially dealing with 126 HP Giant Sharks. Unless your party can soften the...

Sure, but I was just discussing how the math works. The guy without GWM can benefit from everything you listed just as easily. Let's look at my previous example, but assume this character has exactly enough to hit bonus that he only misses on a natural 1, and always has advantage. Keep in...

A smite is triggered by hitting with a weapon attack, so I see no reason it wouldn't work. Also keep in mind that the more damage you do, the worse GWM is for your overall damage. Let's say you normally have on average a 75% to hit for an average of 8 damage. GWM reduces your hit chance to 50%...

The Deck usually shows up once in a campaign at my table. We play that after someone draws all their cards, the cards get shuffled back in (that way everyone has the same chances of risk and reward). I actually have a few different customized Decks that I've used over the years. In my current...

My current campaign just entered T4 at the end of last session, with probably a half dozen sessions (possibly as many as a dozen) left to go before everything is wrapped up. One of the annoying factors of running a game at this level is the relative scarcity of high CR monsters. I can obviously...

No, pretty sure BA can only be used on your turn. If it's not on your turn, it's always a reaction IIRC.

While niche protection isn't necessarily a balance concern in itself (although balance concerns can certainly arise from breaking niche protection), it can certainly be a gameplay concern if one player is unhappy that another player can do basically everything their character can do plus a whole...

You can house rule whatever you want. Unless the OP says that they're house ruling paladin smite to be 1/turn, I'm not going to take that into account in my response. Yes, P2/SX may be the most optimal use case for this. I'm not a hard core optimizer (I like to occasionally read up on what's...

I understand what you are saying. What I am saying is that it lowers the effective trade-off of gaining Extra Attack for certain optimal builds, and I think that should be taken into account. The Paladin 2/Sorcerer 18 build I mentioned earlier, for example. Extra Attack is a fairly huge...

I'm aware of that, but I'm not aware of them saying that they were removing MCing.

IMO, you can't just balance a feat around the worst use-case you can think of (even if that's your focal use-case, like in the case of giving a wizard the ability to gain extra attack). For example, let's consider a more optimal use-case for this hypothetical feat. Paladin 2 / Sorcerer X...

Well if it's weaker, then why gate it behind a feat tax? Just make it so every class gets extra attack at 5th level, because it's clearly weaker than existing options and not an upgrade for anyone. Seems reasonable?

The idea was that this hypothetical optimized fighter is dealing more than the total damage of fireball with his attacks (rather than single target fireball damage).

Look at it this way. If I charop a fighter whose average DPR is higher than fireball, then giving that fighter at-will fireball isn't unbalanced. He deals more damage when he isn't casting fireball than if he is! That doesn't, however, mean that it would be reasonable to give the fighter class...

You have to commit to 6 levels of bard and a subclass to get those. You can't just use an ASI.

A fighter can gain cantrips that scale with level using a feat. To the best of my knowledge, there is no official feat that gives a fighter the ability to cast fireball, which was what I noted in my response as what I see as the appropriate balancing point (and which is insufficient if the feat...

I wouldn't, but going along with the thread's assumption that I would, I would make it cost at least 2 ASIs. This is a 5th level ability for warriors. It should be priced equivalent to a feat that would let fighters cast 3rd level spells (like fireball) at least twice per day, IMO. Also, this...

It's always funny to me what DMs permit and don't permit. The above might technically be true. So is the idea that if a party is fleeing monsters and trying to get out of the dungeon, they probably wouldn't have time to carefully consult their map to figure out where they are in an extremely...