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This item is basically the Find Familiar spell, and yeah that spell is perhaps excessively good, at all levels. My only concern with that magic item would be that you're basically giving away a core class feature to all classes. This is not necessarily a problem, just a concern to think about.

Cite your sources please. You are quoting a bunch of specific details of "how the game is designed" that I have never heard anyone quote before. I would argue that the game is designed for many different types of approaches, and that anyone claiming "DnD is designed for exactly X" is wrong...

I never signed that contract.

Players can't see what the DM sees. They don't know that they are outmatched unless you make it clear. Players absolutely will retreat if they understand the situation, but this never happens unless the DM telegraphs what is clear to the DM but invisible to the players. Also you have to do...

Players rarely (never?) run away for two reasons. First, just because it is obvious to the DM that the players are outmatched, it is never apparent to the players unless the DM telegraphs it to the point that the players are basically told to not engage in combat. As a player, I can't see the...

Same here, I'm not seeing any difference in combat speed, and I think the fear of slower combat is extremely overblown. With 2014 rules, some people were prepared for their turn and went fast, other people took forever to make even the simplest decision. With 2024 rules, the same people are...

A Paladin in Hell (2e)

The Great Modron March (2e)

I assume you're joking here but having items that could only be attuned to by single class characters actually would be a great mechanic to add to the game to help level the playing field a bit.

Depends heavily on the situation. Starting with a Fighter dip is preferred if you want to bump Concentration saves but also want heavy armor proficiency (and a free fighting style for +1 AC), and these benefits outweigh the painful delay in spell progression by an entire level. Starting with...

It is fairly normal for any caster dipping into Sorcerer for con save proficiency or into Fighter for con save proficiency + heavy armor proficiency, since it has to be the first level or you don't get the benefit. Otherwise you are right though, there's no reason to care about having your 1...

For most classes, their absolute best features are front-loaded in Level 1 and 2. Subclasses features pale in comparison to most Base Class features in the first two levels. Changing subclasses to Level 3 has almost zero impact on multi-classing. People will still take 1 level Sorcerer dip...

The only listed restriction in the PHB is that the spell has to be on your class spell list. There is no wording about restrictions if the spell level is higher than you can currently cast. However as mentioned above, the PHB section is specifically referring to cantrips and level 1 spells, so...

Really? I don't think I've ever played a character in a campaign without going way way over 120 pounds worth of inventory. Even if you go naked with no weapons, you're capped at 6000 gold as the maximum you can earn. I've only ever played in one campaign that used encumbrance, and it was very...

Rules As Written, Strength is a critical stat for everyone and not overshadowed by Dex at all. In practice is becomes terrible because few tables play with Encumbrance. If you want Strength to matter, just enforce Encumbrance rules

They are training levels in the sense that your character only has a couple things they can do in combat, so for someone who is completely new to learning the rules of DnD, these levels are much easier for learning the base rules of the game You are definitely right though that these levels are...

I don't think Charisma needs much help, it's the premiere skill for an entire pillar of the game. I could also see buffing it since as it stands now you can easily dump Charisma and just let others do all the talky talky stuff - but I don't see anyone regretting having high Charisma since it...

You're in an internet forum for a game that you don't like, posting about how much you dislike it and wish people would stop playing it. Then you want sympathy from people who just want a place to talk about the game they enjoy without every discussion turning into threadcrapping? That's not a...

Skills are described, yes. Are they described "well"? That's entirely subjective but the descriptions are merely one sentence each so I'd say they're described about as well as you possibly could in 10 words or less (which ain't that great)

Nope didn't help, I still can't comprehend why anyone would be against giving Martial classes more options. You can explain it all day long, I'll still agree to disagree with your opinion and be baffled by it.