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The point is the alchemist has crap offense and defense. You aren't a Mage/Warrior class if you can choose a subclass and have no Warrior.

The modern Ranger is OFFENSE + SKILLS There is a missing grid-fill for Primal and Arcane OFFENSE + DEFENSE

Artificers primarily use spells for offense. It takes a subclass choice to make a Artificer attack with weapons well. And that comes at the cost of defense. Ranger is closer to Rogue as well. Ranger is all OFFENSE and SKILLS. The Arcane/Divine/Primal Spellcaster / Fighter hybrid has magic...

Exactly. The 5e Ranger is a Primal Mage/Expert or Priest/Expert. Not a Primal/Warrior. 5e Rangers are too squishy and lack the number/power of weapon attack spells to fill the full Warrior role

Artificer is Mage/Expert not Mage/Warrior.

That's why you don't have just fout goblins in the room. You have seven goblins and a ballista. Once four goblin die they can't reload and fire the ballista and the goblins run. If they don't kill four goblins in three rounds, someone is gonna be dead. Easy out in turn 4.

Facetious? That's my basic DM advice for adventure planning. Create an encounter Record who's winning at the end of round two Look for an out on turn three. Repeat 4 to 7 more times depending on recovery equipment.

20 combat rounds per long rest is easy. 3-4 rounds of combat and one side runs away. Repeat 5-7 times.

Those are spells that an arcane halfcaster warrior class could use. Except for the cantrip donut spells made for the half Arcane caster half warrior class. All of those spells are better made for either pure Wizards or multi-classed Wizards. You have to create a level 2 spell for a half...

I knew this and said this for years now. Under "normal optimization", casters' offense craps out at around round 15-25. Also an equally optimized warrior equalizing damage at about the same round.

Not necessarily. Again. You'd just need custom Gish spells that are overtuned for their spell level but not on the wizard spells list.

Not really. The spells for a Smordmage/Gish currently don't exist. And if they did, they would be overpowered in the hands of a wizard as EK chose wizard spells. That always has been the fundamental issue. You would have to create a separate spell list of Arcane spells that a wizard would not...

As for the Warlord, my idea to not cause the Warlord to be a battlemap slog or a turn interuptor is to have a Command aura. Those in the Command Aura or informed during the rest are "in on the plan". Those "in on the plan" get to either Do some Action as a bonus action Dash Dodge Disengage...

This is why I'm growing to the idea that the gish class does not get extra attack. Not as Strong in fighting as a Fighter Not as Strong in wizardry as Wizard The 5.5e ranger's FE would be the example. Rather than a traditional spell slot paradigm, the Gish would get to cast a lot of slotless...

Personally I think that the Arcane half caster gish popularity is still high because many cartoons anime and video games show magical swordsman who combined their weapon strikes with magical movement or effects that aren't possible with the Eldridge night because the elders night doesn't have...

That's just a matter of creativity. I could make 10 archetypes of a chef class just by referencing different types of cooking before even thinking on fantasy implications.

I think it's more "My DM won't allow it unless WOTC and the 2 3PPs they trust make it". A lot of 3PP products becomes bookshelf fodder if you don't DM yourself.

D&D druids are a simplification of the narrow slice of knowledge we know of real world druids. They'd deal with the Material, Spirit, and Astral realms. If modeled on the nonD&D lore and myth of druids, the D&D druid, D&D shaman, and some new Astrologer class would be subclasses of that same...

Well A Manticore is CR 3 A Dire wolf is CR 1 A CR 3 beast is a Giant Scorpion. Really, you'd need to create more monsters to get a shifter class to work. That's why only a few have designed it.

After Warlord. I'm for a Shifter class. Like Druid minus the spells. The most fantasy the shapeshifter is not a spellcaster. Even in the movie the shapeshifter is not a spellcaster. I really think that D&D misses a boat on having a magical shapeshifter class that can shape into animals and via...