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First off, I don't know why people try to quote random stuff Gygax said in the 70s like it's the word of god. Sure, Hercules was a fighter in 1e Basic, because he sure as heck wasn't a wizard, rogue or cleric, and those were the only options. And unless I really missed something, it's not like...

What about your level 6 fighter (or level 1 dwarf with great rolls) with 20 str? Because that's where the improvement basically stops. And honestly I think it's a fine stopping point. You're at a Captain America-esque "peak of normal human condition" and can only get stronger and faster and...

I think a "jack of all saves" feat would be worthwhile. Guarded: Add half your proficiency bonus to all saving throws you are not proficient in.

I think you're looking at unclear rules text and asking, "how do the game rules define these terms," which is what 3e and especially 4e taught us to do. A better approach might be to ask, "what makes the most sense here." Does Shield trigger before damage is taken? Of course, that's the whole...

That's still a lot of skipping around if you don't have every spell in the book memorized. I actually made a nice two-page quick reference for warlock spells with one-line descriptions of their effects, which of course i can't post here without getting in trouble for copyright stuff, so that's fun.

I'll be interested to see if the DMG follows up on the idea they mentioned a while back for a skill-less system: just make, for example, fighters proficient in ALL strength and constitution checks, saves and attacks, and nothing else. That eliminates some bookkeeping and the sometimes confusing...

It's hard to claim that Foresight is "broken" because it looks like it does exactly what it's intended to. It's just ludicrous that the very fact that foresight could be balanced against other level 9 spells should have been a wake-up call to the designers. Can you imagine them giving, say...

The realist in you might want to consider that the druid already has wildshape and full spellcasting progression as class features, and maybe they don't need another complexity/power boost.

He's probably talking about True Polymorph, which is certainly very exploitable but is also a level 9 spell. Polymorphing an ally is less likely to result in a million concentration saves, and both resilience and war caster are good enough abilities that you'll probably want at least one of...

There really isn't a viable workaround for some of these, and others would require you to drastically limit the sorts of encounters you create. Regardless, they can almost all be fixed with some simple house rules, which is IMO typically a better solution than just giving every ogre and umber...

There have been various discussions floating around about individual spells or spell combinations that are inordinately powerful in 5e. I'm not talking about stuff like Metwor Swarm or Power Word: Kill, which do a bunch of damage but are obviously intended to do so; I'm looking for spells that...

The inspiring leader and healer feats also help you fill the martial leader role.

The problem with selling unencumbered PDFs is that there would be a huge incentive for groups to just share one person's copy, and probably even consider that tacitly encouraged by the format. I mean, if I just paid $30 or $50 for a PDF of the PHB, am I really going to even ask my friends to do...

Correction: you don't normally get to add cha bonus to your offhand attacks, since your pact weapon is in your main hand. But a warlock with polearm master will get a lot of benefit from that 1d4 offhand hit at higher levels, since it DOES get to add your charisma bonus as well as hex damage.

A level or two (or three!) of fighter, ranger or paladin can make a big difference here. Take your first level as fighter and you pretty much have your choice of fighting styles. TWF will give you as many attacks per round as a blaster warlock until level 17, with each of them adding str or dex...

No, Benjamin was a for-real Marxist. Very smart guy. He pointed out that all that "art for art's sake" stuff that got bandied about in the nineteenth century masqueraded as a reaction against or "above" the vagaries of nascent capitalism, but in reality the movement and those taking part in it...

The difference between this guy's argument and communism is that the communists smelled the baloney in the whole "art for art's sake" concept a century ago (c.f. Walter Benjamin's Arcade Project).

Good work Thaum! But let's all remember that plenty of monsters can cast spells too, so you might need to combine this info with the spells they tend to use to get a real picture of how often you'll face the various kinds of saves.

Just to reiterate what others have said: the monk numbers in the OP are completely wrong because the OP is not using martial arts and flurry of blows properly. Plus he's not using a quarterstaff, which is free damage with no downside. So the monks should get two staff attacks for 1d8+5 each...

What's interesting is that as late as the leaked alpha playtest, fighters had much better class abilities to defeat these kinds of saves. Makes you wonder what playtest in revealed about high-level fighters that we're not seeing in our theorycrafting.