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Yeah, fine in theory but a 4e character has plenty of stuff to worry about already without some more minor fiddly bonuses. If you're going to make your own, make them too powerful/interesting to forget.

How about Garthanos 4e Houserule Discussion Thread? You might get more traction than filling up half the front page with different but mostly similar threads.

A lot of those are D&D problems, not you problems.

To be fair, plenty of skills, feats, and powers in the base game aren't necessarily going to be used every day in game or every session. Speak with Dead would get tons of use as a daily utility I think. Or Tensers Floating Disk. Or Passwall. Or Tree Stride. Or Instant Summons. Or Silence. Or...

You could have the usage time of utilities be whatever you want. Standard action 5 minutes, 24 hours, whatever fits. If an ability isn't going to be used often, does it even need to exist? 4e already heavily goes away with the specific to rare situations problem solving powers. Or why not make...

You can easily add those limitations into a utility power. Rituals are a weird kludge bolted onto the system.

Get rid of rituals and martial practices, make utilities actual utilities and not combat powers.

RPGs are cooperative group games. Or at least the ones I play are. Level differences serve no purpose in those circumstances.

Yeah the real mistake was bringing it up in the first place.

No.

The easiest solution is to take ability scores, ball them up, and throw them in the trash.

I remember growing up on the farm. Rising at dawn to whip carrots from the garden. Good times.

Oh, and Controllers have the best out of combat utility from their actual powers and access to rituals. But that's something that should be fixed, not emulated.

Why are both pacts basically with the Raven Queen? Is the Raven Queen even a core thing in the books?

There are three main ways to open up class roles more. Class and role are totally decoupled. You choose your class, then your role. All classes have powers suitable to each role. All characters of the same role use the same role enforcing mechanics. So there is one defender mechanic, one...

Controllers sadly don't have many explicit controller class features, though it's not really hard to think of some. (ie increasing AoE size, killing minions with miss damage, increasing push/pull/slide distance, ignoring resistances, omitting squares from AoEs, debuffing enemy saves, increasing...

Super cool! There's something very satisfying about putting out a million tokens/minis.

One attack role isn't necessarily one swing of your sword. Hitting a swarm doesn't mean only hitting one creature in a swarm. Killing a swarm doesn't mean killing every single component creature. Non-existent illogical effects solved.

Video games copied "quest givers" from D&D, not the other way around.

And that's great. I disagree and think there is huge potential for non-combat stuff in the game besides skills. But the point is really, 5e doesn't have any more exploration or social stuff than 4e did. Or 3e did.