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You didn't say that, but if all of that is not true then your paladin doesn't have enough information to safely buff before each fight, and instead will have times where it turns out a fight is not as expected and he wants to cast a spell mid-fight based on changing conditions. Or fights where...

Your DM plays an incredibly soft and forgiving game with you if your scouts always find the enemy, you always know what the enemy is, the enemy never runs off or sets traps, rooms with enemies never have traps that make having 'the scout' inside while the rest of the party is outside dangerous...

If it's not a house rule, then cite what book and page this "drop weapon doesn't cost your free 'interact with objects' action" exists on. Sage advice and Crawford's tweets are suggestions, not rules, and are not used by a lot of people. It has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread already...

I sometimes wonder if people posting actually play D&D or if they just do white room analysis. You seriously expect that every fight you will have a round to prepare, you will know exactly what will be in the fight so you know whether you want to buff or not, never have a fight where there is a...

If you have a DM who always lets you know that combat is coming up in exactly a few rounds but not many rounds and exactly what you'll be fighting, then you can pre-cast one minute buffs before combat. I have never met a DM who always tells you when the next combat will be, and never has the bad...

Oh yes, I hadn't even thought about the difficulty of making delicate somatic gestures with 3-4 feet of sword dangling from your arm while you do it. And is it really surprising that people are like "I'll take warcaster" instead of "I'll convince the DM that having a sword chained to my wrist is...

Unwavering mark only affects one creature, at least until you hit 5th level where you can hit two. And it definitely encourages the creature to move away from you even more than spirit guardians does, as you only get your bonus attacks if the creature is within 5' of you. Sentinel's 'you can't...

No, using it would be perfectly possible, they just grab it, now they're holding it, and they swing it at you. You're stuck because you're now grappled as they have ahold of you. They wouldn't need any 'trying' to grab a dangling weapon any more than you have to, they just grab it and swing it...

This doesn't appear to stop someone from snagging the weapon and using it themselves, unless the DM gives you some kind of hilariously favorable 'tether' house rule that lets you have swords hanging off of your body 'dropped' but not easily removed from the tether by someone else, not help...

Exactly what fighter abilities are going to make opponents stay with you and away from 'squishies' better than sticking them in difficult terrain while constantly damaging them as they try to approach the 'squishies' not in difficult terrain?

There isn't really such thing as a 'main tank' in D&D, that's a concept from MMOs with aggro mechanics that force enemies to act in a really dumb way. Define exactly what it is that you expect a main tank to do, and you'll probably do it better by taking more cleric than more fighter. If you...

I have an opposite story that people might find amusing: Years ago, a friend recommended a homebrew 1e (or 1eish) D&D game during the summer when our regular group wasn't active, so myself and a friend showed up to it. The people playing were a family, it was something like a father running the...

Actually, Crawford has established that you don't need warcaster for casting spells that do have a material component if you've got a focus on your shield, but that you DO need it for casting spells with a somatic but no material component. So Cure Wounds, Divine Favor, Heroism, Lesser...

How does this work if the enemy sees you drop your cool sword and snags it for their own use? It's also a free action for them to grab it, so it seems like if you're actually doing this per RAW you'd end up with your preferred weapon being used against you an awful lot.

So you said you want a subclass that "hits harder and avoids jumping out the dark or putting on disguises," and expect people to interpret 'avoids jumping out the dark' as 'does use stealth a lot, but specifically doesn't use it for doing more damage than the other subclasse'. You might want to...

Did you mention any of that when you described what the 'thug' archetype does? No, you said that he hits harder and avoids jumping out the dark or putting on disguises. Uhhh... you did? 'Without any BS with jumping out of the dark or putting on disguises" sounds like not using stealth to me...

Isn't that just a fighter? When you talk about a melee combatant with no magic or rage who doesn't use stealth or disguise and is stronger and more brutal than a regular rogue, I'm not really sure why you think that's not covered by a fighter.

"System Mastery" is usually used for things like combining obscure prestige classes from multiple supplements to get extremely good abilities, or knowing that an ability that looks useful actually isn't, not for concepts like "you might need to fight both in melee and at range at different...

Hags are a great fey creature for people who think they're twee and nonthreatening. So horrific to look at that you have to make saves to avoid a fear effect, and if you're afraid they can kill you with a glance.

The carrion crawler is a classic, and it's paralysis turns scary fast, especially against a smaller party. It's not one of the D&D specific monsters, but I've come to love the Giant Octopus (in the beasts section of the MM). A big mass of tentacles grabbing and restraining you is really scary...