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Oh please. It's not like other classes need to dump any important stat to be good at fighting. Other classes "fight" just as well, and contribute orders of magnitude more than fighters do outside of a fight. Hell, Valor bards and Bladesingers get the same two attacks fighters get in the vast...

I'd love a hybrid of PF2E and 5E. Cool martials, 3 action economy, but less skill feat jank and minutia.

The problem is the guys who want to be a town guard/guy at gym have laid claim to the non-casters. Every time there's a caster vs. non-caster debate they proudly proclaim how much they don't care if they're weaker, so what's one more class that is stronger than their champion? At this point...

Except often you can't, particularly at low levels. Odds are someone in the group has a speed of 25 from heavy armor/being a shorty, and monsters often have faster speeds than 30. You're stuck in a loop of eating opportunity attacks to double dash (whereupon they just double dash) and the cycle...

Gygax was pretty fond of pontificating on how if you changed any of his rules you weren't playing "real" D&D.

That just makes them lucky or sucky. A classes power shouldn't be tied to rolling well or poorly.

Then my apologies, it wasn't necessarily intended to be directed at you, more towards the point of "we don't need clear rules". Skill checks are a great weakness for D&D, one of the reason it appears to be almost entirely combat focused, and a limiting factor on fulfilling the non-caster...

I'm not a trained thief, the DM isn't a trained engineer, and what seems obvious to the DM is not obvious to the player. I have a 45+ hour a week job and other stuff to do, including the fun part of D&D which isn't poking inanimate things with sticks. I don't have time to pixel fart around to...

That's my take based on the statements of old school DM's talking about "skilled play" and their preference for players not knowing how the rules work.

Then its just the DM playing with himself. Which I seem to get is the preference from a lot of old school DM's. You have to do what they want, how they want it. You have to guess what they are thinking with regards to traps and how they think a trap should be disarmed, never mind that neither of...

Old Shadowrun had you pick an A, B, C, D, and E for magical ability, species, gear, skills, and stats. Full casters would be an A, half casters a B, and non-casteres an E. Certain powerful species were B's, others lower tier. So an elf full caster used their A and B, and had less stats...

Ahh yes, as we all know the best rules are a blank piece of paper so the DM can do whatever they want!

This is a poor system for those flavors. Low magic in particular.

Alliterative approval activated!

I'm sure someone has used D&D to run a combat free modern dating sim while the party manages a small auto repair shop, but that doesn't make it a good fit for such games. 5E is inherently high magic: 9 of the 13 classes cast spells, the monk is inherently supernatural and the remaining 3 have...

Martials should have higher proficiency bonus and higher stat caps. Unifying everything was a mistake.

Like, maybe they can not level their town guard up if they want to fulfill some kind of impotence fantasy. I don't know, I just know the existing martials are underpowered in terms of heroic fantasy compared to casters. Some people really want that BMX bandit feel, but I don't think letting them...

So only casters get a power fantasy. Otherwise you're a town guard +1. Toughest guy at the gym should be the level 1 starting point. Hercules should be around level 15 with battlefield altering feats of strength and power.

BG3 was a hit because of the characters, story, cinematics, etc. Solasta is a 5E combat sim so kind of a dull gaming experience.

This is a good clarification. There are certain things I don't do as DM because it's a negative play experience.