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Look, all I can say is, don't stick to that one lone article. There's a MOUNTAIN of stuff there that you've barely scratched in order to create your conclusions. As a long time gushing fanbois of TheARMA, I cannot recommend enough spending hours going through what's there.

Yes and no though. Let's not forget that a lot of spells last more than one round. If you cast a summoning, you got critters for the entire combat (or until they died). And, pre-5e, there was no such thing as concentration (for the most part), meaning that you could have two or three...

And yet, there are zero complaints about the Battlemaster doing exactly the same thing. Or the Mastermind Rogue. We have a Trickery Domain cleric in our group that gives a skill buff as a blessing. No one has ever complained about that. "Don't you dare give me a big buff to my stealth...

I get that. I mean, to a large extent I actually agree, despite being all in in playing 5e. I miss the days when you would see maybe, maybe one spell cast in a combat. Now, it's mostly two or three spells every single round. But, by the same token, I also realize that that ship has sailed a...

And, frankly, this is the answer to why Battlemasters aren't quite there yet. Battlemasters focus too much on dealing damage directly. You make an attack, use X maneuver to deal extra damage and impose some sort of status effect. Sure, Warlords did that but, that wasn't really the main...

Warlords are specifically non-magical. That's the entire point. It's only "magical" if you take the presumption that HP=meat. Otherwise, it works perfectly fine.

Oh, that I would disagree with. The Warlord just has so many potential subclasses. I mean, good grief, 4e had what, six different official Warlords? I do believe that "tactical and strategic focused force multiplier" character has a LOT of legs.

Talk about not reading your own articles: Note, he states it right there. Your sword was your weapon of last resort. Of course it's indispensable, because you do throw your spear and your halberd does break. But, you use all those other weapons first, and THEN, if you still need to, you use...

For myself, I know that a lot of the PC's I create often come with the basic idea of a quest. I gravitate towards religious characters a lot - clerics, druids, paladins, that sort of thing - so, it isn't much of a leap at all. My character is searching for a relic or something of importance...

Unfortunately, real life stepped on the neck of this particular campaign before it gained much legs. It was actually a heck of a lot of fun being the one character with a fairly normal, mundane background but was a real jerk, in this group of broken, horrifically scarred individuals who were...

Unless you think every single soldier in existence comes from a tragic home situation, I don't think that tragic backstory is really much needed for an adventurer. Again, I would point to the rather extensive number of super heroes who actually have two parents and come from loving families...

Kinda, sorta, but, there are all sorts of reasons. My Dragonborn Paladin that I mentioned, got religion and really hated dragons (I made him a paladin of Gilgeam). Sure, he had a fantastic home life, but, the call to adventure sounded and off he went.

I think this is probably the biggest reason right here. Players, having been burned in the past, make characters that are Teflon. Nothing sticks. They are from far away, have zero ties, no family, no connections to the setting at all generally. Father Generic the Cleric, or, the PC with No...

Heck, in my case, Jammy was a dickhead. Happy homelife, but, he was a rebel - drinking, getting into trouble, the whole nine yards. Not evil, but, a troublemaker. AKA being a teenager. :p But, then again, you could take up adventuring to protect your happy family - my Hoard of the...

The funny thing is, there are so many ways to do supply tracking that doesn't require all this fiddly one arrow tracking stuff. There are any number of abstract inventory systems in various RPG's that do it. And it's not like this is a new idea. I think someone mentioned WAAAAAY upthread the...

And, frankly, even the "martials" we have can often cast spells or have spell like abilities. I mean, Barbarians can literally fly. Monks (depending on subclass) have straight up access to spells. Everyone loves a caster apparently. Having a Warlord (whatever name you want to call it, I...

Heh. I have been here so many times. YouTube Viva La Dirt League Competing for the darkest backstory in D&D In the last campaign I got to play in, 3 of the other players all had these horrific backstories. Abuse, substance abuse, torture. You name it. Then you had my halfling monk -...

Meh. Why? No one even tracks components anymore. You have a spell component case and that's the end of the tracking. And, let's be honest, the reason for this is because for the past forty or so years, while every single PHB has listed spell components, unless they were expensive, no one...

How many hunters used a sword? Compared to using a spear? After all, many of the things D&D characters fight are not humanoid. Swords would be my last choice of a weapon vs most non-humanoids. Imagine trying to fight a wyvern with a sword. But, the romance version of swords makes it not...

I never said it was concious or deliberate. It just was. Like you said, the art shows characters with swords. The best magic weapons are swords. Outside of D&D, the image of the knight (or samurai) with a sword dominates the collective conscious. I'm not assigning blame. Who cares about...