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Not everyone has the time/knowledge/money to do so. Also if the folks from WotC are like "We made this huge mistake" and then don't fix it... I mean that's kinda on WotC.

Hey, it's a hell of a start! The design box is really just the Role. Source just adds a nifty secondary effect or structure that gives you something identifiable that adds some connection to similarly sourced classes with some differences within role. As a way to separate an Alchemist...

Swordmage is listed as a tank sooo... probably no nuking, but a need for battlefield control. Though I should note: When I say AoE with lower damage that would, absolutely, be impacted by role. So if Arcane hits a bigger area, it hits a bigger area in any role. Blaster Arcane would have the...

The idea is to take some of the lessons from 4e's encounter pacing and bring it to 5e. Because 5e is designed for 6-7 encounters per day, but Mearls and the rest of the team dropped the ball on pacing out abilities. So players just dump all their most powerful abilities in round 1 to try and...

It's great that you've seen it as a matter of bad adventure design. But the ability to Nova/Alpha your most powerful abilities into the first fight of the day is still going to result in players doing that and then trying to find ways to get in that long rest so they can do it, again. And likely...

What kinda classes would you need for such a setting? You'd definitely need to cover the 'Core Roles' of Tank, Healer, Damage Dealer, sure. Might be good to take another page out of 4e and build up a set of 'roles' that you want people to play in general. I might suggest: 1) Tank Melee damage...

I definitely wouldn't use it as Battlemaster Maneuvers, no... Because this would also apply to Spellcasters. Full and Half and 3/4, too. My current thought is that 1st and 2nd level spells are always Encounter Powers. But after that point, the top three spell levels you can cast are dailies...

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking. Make a "Player's Guide to (Setting)" alongside an adventure/adventure path. The players guide contains your classes, archetypes, feats, spells, psionic powers, whatever, but it also contains a Gazette for the setting to give the players (and DM) some...

So as Mearls finally admitted and expressed mathematically, though most of us have known it for a long time: D&D's combat was balanced for the slow release of power over a much longer adventuring day and not the alpha burst we've been seeing for a decade. And there's really two reasons the game...

Yyyyyyyyyyup.

In geology, there's something called the Great Unconformity. Basically you have this one section of 1.7-1.3 billion year old rock with 500 million year old rock on top of it. Our current dating methods line up perfectly on the expected age of rock below that line, and above that line...

It's a thing. I don't actually care about that, though for a few simple reasons: 1) Bounded accuracy is pretty much a joke. 2) It would make the Psion hilariously inept at some stuff and really good at a few other things. 3) The skills you can do that with are pretty limited, and by gating...

... in my meager defense I wrote that months ago and forgot about it. Yup. It's there. But the gap is still there! It's a thing, for sure, though it is still useful for the class, depending on the situation. That -is- a good idea... Making the Martial Classes more skill-heavy than the caster...

So... the Inquisitor's Castigation: Yeah, it's like sneak attack damage. And at level 1, it's the same level as a sneak attack, but you can apply it more liberally at that level range and don't need to rely on enemy positioning or advantage. But it also starts falling behind at 3rd level, and...

I've got some Pregen Sheets I'm working on, yes. I just added the maps and tokens pack to DTRPG.com for download, too!

To really drive home the single minded nature of the class concept/fantasy. This is "I will hunt you down and kill you" class. They don't take a ton of time training in a bunch of different styles, they just master -one- and make it work for them in every situation. Slayer's Defense and Weapon...

You ever follow a pattern and it's a simplistic pattern and you continue following the pattern after the point where the pattern ends and wind up with a sweater with a 5ft long right arm and not enough yarn to finish the rest of the sweater? ... I'll fix it. I'm shocked no one else noticed...

The Mystic got canned because Mearls was trying to make a single class capable of doing everything but with psionics. Yeah, the system was a little different, but mostly it was because it was just -too- big. Too much. And everything it did stepped on EVERYONE'S toes. At this point? I think the...

Which three?

As always, I appreciate the callout!