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I did not claim great similarity however Chess was a war game ahem, It was mentioned to demonstrate that games do not need high flux random to be interesting and craps is not much like D&D either but they demonstrate that high end dice impact is not necessarily "exciting" to everyone I actually...

Yup only spell casters are allowed to be legendary Stunts/Skills are effectively the martial spells and if skills and attributes both become very nearly static like they have there is no foundation for any kind of real advancement we have stalled progression

Chess is anything but boring to me and randomness is not rewarding to everyone... in fact I do not feel like I accomplish anything playing a game of craps. It seems to me your characters skills and your design choices AND even your action choices have significantly less meaning than random...

Not just fight but ... fight super genius firebreathing monsters the size of houses armored like a tank who challenge not just strength The feats of endurance performed by legendary characters like Beowulf and Cu Cuhlaine do beat Olympic records and someone travelling with them might find...

For me bounded accuracy killed the sense of progression for skills... its relatively ok in combat which has hit points dealt and multiattacks but 4 bips on a d20 is bleh. In effect there is barely anything you couldnt do near the beginning of the second tier that you can do at level 20

Because adventuring is demanding? In fact that my saving throws are pretty much not all improving I find far more odd,

That means chaos means more (does not sound good to me)

There are more non-abstract clues for Strength at least (even IQ is somewhat nonsense in the real world it might as well be abstract),

I think you could just have said all of them... generalized level based skill advances up to 15 and since you start out closer to level 5 analog in general (and being trained in a skill is 5pts) If we are extrapolating to the levels that 4e did not represent while you were gaining that +5 that...

Unless you are ok with letting allies drown it sounds like a situation which might call for a skill challenge or group check of some sort where everyones actions impact the group success

must be a spell caster...

And its not necessarily even about being unhealthy when do you bring on your big guns is a decision point that the fighter simply does not have to the degree that the caster does... including paladins which can nova. via battlemaster alone right?

This is where I elaborate what I feel is some of that flavor from the Swordmage as presented the mechanics contribution is not really heavy I think its more capability. Their blades are cutting holes through the fabric of reality and it bleeds elemental effects etc etc...

I do that with Fae races as a matter of norms....

Which means to me boring game play, cause without collapsing temples and gigantic pillars to knock over on bad guys heads and splitting ground and bridges falling out from under you (leaving huge gaps to jump) what is there?

Always thought raising the dead should be an adventure the first time a skill challenge the second time and maybe finally just a ritual but not at bloody 8th level

5e cut up and distributed a lot of the swordmage's stuff but you can never get the kind of ubiquitous practical/tactical teleporting for instance which eventually becomes the norm for the SM.

This almost feels like what the Swordmage was instead of a multiclasser .. its class powers were all distinct and uniquely theirs as an amalgam of swords and magic ie what an eldritch knight really isnt, it is wielding magic in a sense distinct from casting spells but then again that is almost...

If you made to what 9th level prior to that pure martial

Hey I had severe insomnia last night so I have an excuse