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Point him to the Dread Knight in GPG #8. It has what he needs.

There is a Savant subclass, the Vanguard, that allows the use of melee tricks with ranger weapon attacks within 30 feet. Something similar could work as a house rule with some traditions, or as future subclass features or magic items. Edit: An additional thought I had is that many melee...

The real advice here is work it out with your DM. But I’ll give my opinion: 1. The cipher sword seems fair game for an infusion. 2. If the artificer doesn’t maintain the infusion, “any infusion [they] fail to maintain vanishes and reverts to a mundane item.” I don’t think you can be...

Thanks for clarifying. Just wanted to say thank you for designing the most interesting 5e martial class, period. The berserker rules, and in my opinion sets the standard for martial class design.

A berserker can have a 17-20 crit range at level 5 pretty easily, so a berserker should be getting crits more than an O5e barbarian. Zealous stance helps a lot with accuracy and stacks with advantage. And there are maneuvers and crit effects that help generate advantage, so the berserker can...

The Adept’s Brawler also lets you spend an exertion to use a basic maneuver. That’s a pretty decent action economy leg up, but I’m not convinced it’s actually that good.

For similar reasons, I think Attention Diverting Aegis could be really good. It might be hard to make a proper tank from a savant, but if you can manage to remain hidden, you could force every enemy to save or have disadvantage on every single attack they make. I think that’d potentially...

You’re absolutely correct. That is much better, although I still think it’s pretty bad. Even in a typical three round combat, a savant probably wants to be trying to single-target crowd control the most dangerous bad guy, so I’m not sure it’s a good idea to dump strength and dex and rely only...

The problem with Assess Vulnerability is that you can only use it for 1 attack per enemy. That’s pretty bad, and I think it’s a trap option.

I think the Marshal is undertuned at the moment. To me it feels balanced for O5e, but martial classes in A5e are substantially boosted. For example, handing a sneak attack out to the rogue is great, but a rogue in A5e has an easier time triggering a reaction attack through maneuvers...

Don’t get me wrong—criticizing is way easier than creating! I think there’s a lot of potential here. I think a separate subclass feature makes sense. Maybe at level 1 you get some (1st degree), then more at 6 (2nd), and 10 (3rd). I think allowing EB to be used with appropriate maneuvers...

The subclass basically puts everything good about martial classes on the warlock chasis. Compare it to O5E eldritch knight—it basically does everything that subclass did and then way, way more. The biggest problem is probably allowing EBlast to become weapon attacks. More attacks than a...

I think your analysis is correct, particularly for Heralds who get a regular exertion pool on top.

This is pretty unbalanced but it’d be fun to play, no doubt.

An option to sort the archetypes would be handy, especially by class. Not necessary, but nice.

This analysis seems to have a few problems. Perhaps the most major is that it doesn’t appear to account for the fact that the second crit on relentless is gated behind the first crit. So the ex ante chance of getting two extra attacks from each swing would be (1 - [0.2775]^2), or about 7.7%...

There’s a lot of neat ideas in here, I really like it. One thing that stood out to me immediately: how much does it cost to levelboost a psychic reflex? The playtest document seems to suggest it is free (double the cost of zero is zero). But that seems to way, way too good, so I must be...

A simple mechanical solution is probably to just swap radiant damage for force damage and charisma for intelligence. It obviously won’t be particularly distinct.

Expertise dice stack, so if it doesn’t take a reaction, you could use both against 1 attack, I think.

The current language also suffers from the flaw of failing to rule out something like Fighter 5/Berserker 6 getting three attacks. The rule says the 11th-level Extra Attack feature is an exception to the rule against stacking. Reading it most literally means that it does nothing until you get...