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Fighter is another good way to go, either straight up or in combination with rogue. This edition is not hurting for interesting archer builds.

I want that spoon that gives you gruel every day.

That sounds like a feature, not a bug. The ability to survive in the front line is a big deal; it takes some actual character build choices to attain, not just a couple spells. As you noted in this thread, a single level of cleric or fighter would get you plenty of AC.

Wizards have far and away the best spell selection of any class, and they can learn all of them. The neo-vancian spell slots and infinite scaling cantrips mean that they can prepare a good variety of utility spells without gimping their combat effectiveness. They get awesome subclass abilities...

Level 2 is when moon druids are at their peak relative to other classes. Try this at level 5 and the results should be quite different: the barbarian's damage is doubled and the druid is exactly the same.

I think they're not so much worried about BitTorrent as email - since d&d is played by small closely-knit groups of nerds, it would be almost second nature for them to split the cost of PDFs and share them. This isn't an issue for Pathfinder, where most of the rules are in the SRd and they make...

The trick with Magic Initiate is that it specifically says that the magic ability score for the spell is Wisdom for Druid spells, which means the Shillelagh would use wisdom instead of cha. As far as I can figure the only way to use Shillelagh with charisma is either tome pact or bard magical...

Oh, my friend. Let me introduce you to the Pact of the Tome, which will allow you to cast a little cantrip called Shillelagh, which will allow your warladin to carry around a stick and use his Charisma bonus instead of Str for attacks and damage. Doubled for attack bonus when you use that...

I love the warlock class, but I still think it would be fun to play a "hexblade" character that's pure Battlemaster Fighter or monk with the Magic Adept feat to cast Hex 1/day.

What level is the party, though? I could see this feeling a bit anemic at level 15+ if the only major melee threats the party faces all have magic claws.

The thing is that forced movement isn't free in 5e (except for warlocks). You're either giving up an entire attack or spending ki or expertise dice (or maybe spell slots?) just to make an attempt to shove someone. So if my fighter hits with an attack, spends an expertise die to shove a goblin...

You know why fights on top of waterfalls and cliffs are so exciting? Because people fall off. I'd allow a saving throw if there are guardrails to grab, but otherwise, don't fight on a cliff if you don't want to fall off.

This is an easy answer to the OP: the people complaining about the splatbooks aren't the people using them. The people complaining are the other players and DMs who have to either disallow ALL third-party material or else carefully examine every new class, feat, spell, or ability that enters the...

I dunno Mistwell, a lot of even high-level monsters dish out damage via multiattack, so you're ignoring maybe 6-12 damage every round they attack you. That's a lot of hp! (Although of course the ones with magic claws swipe right through your armor.) Speaking of which, are any DMs house-ruling...

There are quite a few super-useful feats. I've heard others mention Alert, Observant, Resilient (Wis), and build-specific stuff like Greatweapon Master, Sentinel, and War Caster as "must-have." Which is probably a good sign!

I always played where you start a new character at the same level as the group if you die. For a while I worried that it trivialized character death, but I quickly realized that players who care about their characters are already plenty punished by losing them without paying any additional...

Pun pun was a 3.5e character that used a bunch of splatbooks and questionable rules to make himself a god with infinite power at like level 2. It was an example of how unbalanced the system could be if the DM allowed anything.

Remember, disadvantage on checks does NOT mean disadvantage on saves.

I really like that bards are a "power" class now, because IMHO it actually goes quite well with how the class can be roleplayed: they're a jack of all trades, always looking for a trick or shortcut that keeps them a step ahead of the competition. Like, a cleric learns Contagion because his god...