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Oh. My. God. This is precisely and exactly what I've been arguing as a flaw in 5e's design since before it was even CALLED 5e. Twelve years now, I've been told I'm crazy. Hateful. Biased. "White room"ing. Etc., etc., ad nauseam. Now it's literally coming straight from the horse's mouth. Will...

Well, no, not really. Because that former thing says "you really are exactly a cleric, we're just pretending you don't use magic", which is not what a Warlord is. I mean, unless you want to claim that every class that fights other than Fighter is really a Fighter who works by magic. Turns...

I am fairly sure no such method exists. Even if it did, it would cause the thread to be rapidly buried because it would get zero posts.

Is it? Like seriously, is it? They trashed several things with no actual testing, just "it didn't hit the arbitrary 70% threshold, destroy it forever". But then they kept Mearls' darling Proficiency Dice for like four or five packets running before finally, finally killing it and replacing it...

Given the recent developments just in this thread? Nah. Folks cannot resist the temptation.

At least four subclasses come to mind: Ninja -- as stated, though I'd accept a more culturally-neutral name if one could be found Poisoner -- classic trope whether East or West, with plenty of room for mechanical expression Operative -- James Bond, medieval-style, perhaps with elements of...

Where are we going with this, counselor? I'm genuinely not sure what you're aiming for with this. That there could be--functionally--a Rogue-based, rather than Fighter-based, Bladesinger-like subclass? I suppose that we could do that, but...why? I'd also say that any Wizard getting "bonus...

Your game is of course the primary exception to my previous experiences--but I'm quite content with what Kalthor is.

As noted above: It would be like asking a flautist to separate right hand movements and breathing, and practice only those skills, and then, separately and five minutes delayed, practice left hand movements and embouchure. Like...that's theoretically a thing they could physically do...but it...

Not necessarily, or at least, the problem is that you have boiled a multifaceted thing down to only one dimension, which destroys the important details where the differences can add up. Consider, for example, a Wizard class, designed to break the unfortunate 3E-derived "spellcasters rule...

While I do love the Avenger, I personally think it merits its own, separate class, if it's going to be included at all. Its focus is different, because of the Divine angle. I do, however, think that both the Avenger and the Assassin are good examples of classes which should be supernatural, but...

It really isn't. And most of the people in this conversation seem to agree that it isn't. Again, it really well and truly is not. Your experience is so radically divergent from what even I--who have a lot of difficulties with social stuff--have ever faced, it genuinely borders on "this person...

I liked the idea from 4e of "Shrouds" you could apply to targets, and think that could be expanded into a more diverse set of options, including skill check effects and movement or location stuff. Like, say you have a Ninja subclass of Assassin. They could mark a location with their Shroud...

I did like the Binder/Vestiges concept, and that could be used to bring back the D&D Next playtest Warlock, which was a really neat idea. (TL;DR: It was VERY invocation-based, albeit not by that name...and every invocation-like thing you took actually had a visible cost, e.g. Devil's Sight would...

Exactamundo. A swordmage is a character for whom swordplay is magic, and magic is swordplay. To separate the two would be like asking a flautist to separate their left hand and breathing from their right hand and embouchure: ridiculous, and more importantly pointless.

I'm not the one who made a statistical claim; if you don't actually know that a majority is doing something, saying "Lots of people, the majority in fact, buy supplements", then why use that word? "The majority in fact" would indicate that there is a fact you are stating.

So you don't actually have anything beyond "I'm pretty sure"?

You have the numbers to back up this "majority" claim, yes? You can prove that every supplemental book for 5.0 was bought by a majority of people who had bought the core books?

If I had had even the slightest success with getting 3PP material while playing 5e, I would take this much more seriously. It's not players who insist on "WotC has to make it". It's GMs. Specifically 5e GMs, and their hyperconservative attitude toward this kind of content unless they...

Well, at least in my personal understanding of it, Druids deal with the essences in nature: raw elemental forces, beasts and their characteristics, weather, that sort of thing. Shaman deal with the consciousnesses in nature. "All that is, is alive." Everything has some kind of consciousness in...