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Be careful not to reduce damage done. For instance, rolling 2 normal attacks will do more damage than rolling with advantage. If all attacks use the same roll, this penalize rogues and other classes with "once per turn" bonus damage. What's wrong with rolling 4 dice at once anyway? (red hit...

Bold is the new UPPERCASE. I love the {yes, yes, yes, wrong} poll choices. It has the same smell as "When did you stop beating your wife?", and has as much statistical value.

This. MC also delays your first ASI, since you usually want to stop at level 3 for the archetype. Rogue works great with extra attack, some other class such as cleric will also "synergize" well. Instead of picking martial 5, you can: - fighter 1 / martial 4 to gain a fighting style and second...

Stat inflation is a biggy. Who cares if your 5 ASI can give +5 to 2 stats when you start with 12-14 for your best stat? Or have them build a routine to improve their stats. If by level 12 they do 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and run 10km every day, give them their Str16.

Well I guess there's no point in listening to such a one-sided rant, if you're ignoring any and all points that goes against the narrative.

EK war magic, shield master, monk become weaker.

That's a pretty one-sided argumentation. What about the penalty to ranged when someone is in melee range?

Not really. You are going from ~.65 to ~.75 to hit, that's about the same as going from 1d8+2 (6.5) to 1d8+3 (7.5) damage. That makes it about par with gwf. That +2 is godsent when you have SS, otherwise it's nothing special.

Well, you understood wrong. I'll be less ambiguous then. You don't want a "0 or 0+proficiency" bonus, you want a finer resolution. You want to do "X or X+proficiency" where X can be something else than zero, not linked to stats, and different for every skill. Now, if you go with the 2x 3x...

Yes, yes. I perfectly understood. You said you wanted a finer resolution than what proficiency gave, or at least that's how I understood it.

I believe you want something smaller than the +6 from high-level proficiency. That is an interesting goal. Bringing back skill points goes against 5e simplicity. I just don't see a +2 as significant enough to deserve complexities. That being said, if you wish to mimic the current scale, you...

Simplify. All proficient skills are +proficiency+2. All others are +0. It's easier to adjust DC than to complexify skills.

9 gives you your 3rd spells. See if there's anything flavorful.

Compare it to classes that closely match your goal. Then see how it differs. For instance: - Weapon Specialty looks like a new fighting style similar to archery - Defense Mastery, same thing, like an early additional fighting style - Improved Critical is a champion feature, moved later -...

Yep. Beside the 15 14 14 group missing, the 12 9 9 is not in order. Or 12 12 8 for that matter. This makes it hard to validate completion.

That's not how archetypes work. The only thing you can change are the martial archetype features at 3, 7, 10, 15 and 18. Even if it was a full class, having both Dex and Con save is... taboo. All classes have ONE of (Dex Con Wis) and ONE of (Str Int Cha).

Hex warrior doesn't work with heavy weapons, versatile is the biggest that uses Cha. After Cha, Con, Dex, you don't have much to MC barbarian. Con12 is low and Dex14 + medium armor gives you AC17.

You have an interesting definition of minmaxing if it covers this. Not picking wizard is merely common sense. And whether you got Str16 or Str18, you'd make the same choice. Where's the mental effort to squeeze some juice out of that rock? In fact, your "game" of generating stats doesn't offer...

You can't minmax when rolling in order, you're only left with your racial pick. You are saying that rolling 18-3 is worth more than rolling 17-12, one is much better than the other. Also, because of the "in order", Wis classes might be hard to get. Depending on the point total, you might end...

Nope. You can only use slots on spell accessible to your class. Once per day is enough for mage armor or find familiar, not much else.