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But mechanics and setting/content need to align somewhat. That was one of the many reasons 4e failed. All classes felt mechanically the same.

Like, with Drax we are talking Alien here. The same with Superman. And in the MCU and DCU, Aliens don't have the same baseline abilities as Humans. In D&D 5e, all playable races have the same baseline abilities. Without adventuring/Player or NPC Classes all creatures are around 8 to 12 in any...

If you don't consider Dave Bautista magic I don't know what is :D

My problem was (maybe that was here or another thread about the same topic) that people wanted to have mundane non magical martials to be on par with Wizards at very high levels, which I don't like. Like, I have no problem, if there is an explanation for why the martials have the supernatural...

I tried to do the exhaustion thing at my table. You can gain a one level of exhaustion to get the benefits of a short rest or gain two levels for the benefits of a long rest (without HP and Hitdice regaining). Nobody ever used it.

In another thread I proposed something that is the opposite of that: charging the characters during combat so that the cool abilities are used at the end of combat and not at the beginning. Like, for every vanilla attack action you make, you get a charge. Then you have cool abilities, that can...

No! Wizard and Sorcerer are distinct. All magical classes should be divided by the origin of power: Learned (Wizard), given (Cleric), innate (Sorcerer) and all other Caster classes shall be subclasses of those three. Bards are cultural study Wizards, warlocks a emo goth clerics.

Like, I didn't start with the insistence that martials need to be mundane. I don't have any problem with super heroic characters if you have some sort of supernatural explanation on how they got that powers.

My problem is more, that the Classes by itself are quite arbitrary. They are not really divided by party role (Tank, Support, Melee or even just Magic, Support, Martial), nor by origin of power (innate power, loaend power, learned power). Like, you have some classes, that are clearly designed...

All your examples I would consider supernatural and not mundane.

But even those characters vary vastly in power. James Bond is maybe, with good will a level 2 rogue. Batman is a level 10 one. Black Widow, depending on the source a Level 6 assassin and Conan? In some Short Stories I read he is a level 1 or 2 thief. The Schwarzenegger Conan is maybe a level 3...

We are lucky when TV Shows use the minimum requirement for any magic system: Magic that is used to resolve a (main) conflict, needs to be established earlier in the story.

I really can't think of one (don't read a lot of Mangas, so maybe there are more) but even in the superhero genre or most fantasy novels I read, martials only are equal to spellcasters, when they get magical or supernatural powers, be it from gamma radiation, serum, magical artifacts or magic of...

The Power Levels in the MCU vary widely even in one and the same film. In one scene Captain America is fighting some goons, Human Hydra agents, and in the next he is holding a 1000 ton hellicarrier with his arms.

But Thor is more a Wizard or maybe a Paladin and not a Fighter. And what I figured was, that some people want to have mundane non magical fighters that can beat dragons and kill 100s of mooks.

I would say Harry Potter's use of Spells is very cantrip like. They can fire the basic ones at will without any repurcussions. But the rules of the Harry Potter magic are quite simple: Magic can do what is introduced in the books early as spells (and other magical effects). Only magic...

The problem with the Warlock for me, that he is three classes in one thematically, that would actually be subclasses of either a wizard, sorcerer or a cleric. In 5e RAW lore Warlocks get their magic trough two ways: - first by orrowing power from another being like clerics do - so that power...

You need especially Battlefields that you can controll. With narrow passage you can Block, with bottlenecks, with height differences. And they need to be bigger. If you have a wide open field without Cover, even in 5e Raw intelligent enemies with range attacks should attack the guy who looks...

Your martials can't do that in your games? I slowly see why you guys think that martials suck.