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A moment I asked Google about how long a person can concentrate on one thing such as the Hunter's Mark spell. I found out that on average that most adults can maintain their focus for about 15 to 20 minutes before their attention span declined and they got distracted by something or someone...

Back in 3e Unearthed Arcana, the Ranger, the Paladin, and the Bard were depicted as 15 level Prestige classes. Prestigious Character Classes pages 69-72. Druids had an easier time becoming a Prestige Ranger, but you come become one via multiclassing with the barbarian, fighter or rogue.

The need to concentrate for an hour on Hunter's Mark is what convinced me to use the optional Favored Foe class feature for my 2014 Ranger character. You just needed to concentrate for a minute with Favored Foe and you were able to use it a number of times equal to your PB/Long rest. And while...

If the Ranger in question has the spells Detect Poison and Disease and Protection from Poison and/or carries a Herbalism Kit, they could be a part of a Ranger's identity. However, several spellcasting classes have these two spells in their spell lists. They're not limited to the Ranger class...

A while back, there was some discussion about when a 2024 Warlock should enter a pact with their otherworldly patron. Some posters didn't like the idea of a Warlock having to wait until 3rd level before learning the nature of their Patron. Others were fine with the idea of them waiting until 3rd...

Are any of the other classes in D&D really solid in their identity or have satisfied most of the customer base? Class identity and satisfaction are subjective terms. They mean different things to different people.

The Ranger is one skill proficiency behind the Rogue in terms of initial skill proficiencies. That would make the Rogue, the #1 Know It All in 5e. :p

My favorite version of the Ranger is Laser Llama's version of the class. Reasons being: *You get a Fighting Style at 1st level instead of 2nd level. *You receive Knacks at 1st level that allow you to customize the class even further. *They are prepared Half-Casters. With every long rest, they...

Both Hunter's Mark and Hex do pretty much the same thing. If the former was made into a class feature, players could still find a way to pick up the latter in order to gain its' benefits.

If HM was made into a class feature, would there be a need to keep it as a spell? If it were a class feature, the Vengeance Paladin could still get it by dipping one or two levels into Ranger. Or the Vengeance Paladin could have been given something like HM. The Mark of Vengeance or Vengeful...

True, the posters have been critiquing Treantmonk's HM. They're giving Treantmonk some Feedback on what they think of his version of HM. Even I critiqued it by presenting another homebrewer's version of HM on this thread. One where the HM was a class feature rather than a spell. Having a...

There are parts of D&D that don't really work well with the audience. If a 3pp fixes one or more of those parts, they aren't really cutting off parts of their audience. They're encouraging more people to come and become a part of the community. As long as those at a particular table are okay...

3pp's like EN Publishing likewise don't have to deal with past baggage, and community bias. They do have to meet audience obligations because they do come out with product that has to be backwards compatible with WoTC's stuff. However, they have done a very good job listening to their base's...

Of the four things you've brought up, I think a homebrewer is going to stick with audience obligations (aka their fan base). If the homebrewer has created alternate takes of D&D's most iconic classes and has done a very good job designing them and listening to their base's feedback, which...

WoTC can't. But I doubt that is going to prevent certain homebrewers from trying anyway.

The 5e homebrewer Laser Llama actually did this with his alternate version of the Ranger class. Back in 2022, two years before the 2024 Ranger debuted. Ranger's Quarry You focus your senses to hunt as a predator of the wild. Also at 2nd level, you can use a bonus action to mark one creature you...

I'll wait until issue 48 shows up in the next GPG annual. ;) For now I am curious about how the article on Leyline Mechanics will cover the Wizard (Geomancer) archetype from issue #22 https://a5e.tools/node/3887 I wonder which other classes in Level Up will have an archetype that deals with...

5e had it where only one Fighter archetype was known for using combat maneuvers during a fight. The Battle Master. Level Up has every martial character, including the Fighter, as being something of a Battle Master. And given the number of Combat Traditions in Level Up, no two 'Battle Masters'...

There actually is a Fighter archetype in Level Up that was modeled IMO after Captain America. The Charging Shield Fighter Though primarily an armament for defense, in the hands of a properly trained combatant a shield can become a powerful weapon. Charging Shield warriors are thus terrifying to...

Level Up offers up quite a number of new and innovative ways to play 5e.