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I'd ditch WIS entirely and go with INT and CHA. Wisdom is basically the notice-things-attribute (thus perception, insight, Survival, etc), common sense, willpower to resist things, and more all rolled into one uber stat. But skills are now decoupled from attributes, so there's no need to...

The problem being that Sorcerer isn't the monster class in dnd 5e. There might be dragon sorcerers, and aberrant minds might have mindflayer ties, but.... Wild magic can easily be halfling luck powers dialed to 11, or power drawn from Deck of Many Things. Storm sorcerers are just elementalists...

Some people call half-casters like the ranger and pally martial, after all. I don't know what definition you're using, but maybe don't force it on others and act condensending when someone doesn't? Just a thought.

People have complained for how many years that the fighter has nothing to do out of combat? Now, we have Tactical Mind for Fighter and Primal Knowledge for Barbarian. I'm afraid that, while a beast in combat, Monk will take Fighter's place as the only class at a loss of things to do outside of...

I would go... Paladin + Fighter for str/con Rogue + Ranger for dex/wis Wizard + bard for int/cha. Cleric merge into pally, druid into ranger, monk into Rogue, artificer into Fighter, sorcerer and related psionics into bard. barb goes part to ranger, part to fighter. all remaining elemental...

Good news. 1dnd UA warlock let you apply agonizing blast onto any cantrip.

One thing I hate about the Sorcerer... Is that it doesn't have an associated INT skill. Wizards and Arcana. Clerics and Religion. Druids and Nature. this one is probably controversial, but if anyone does History, it's the class that sings and tells atories about people. All the full...

New monk is good. my only complaint is that it's the only class without spells or skill bumps.

Yes, because who in their right mind would call the fantasy Martial Arts class... a martial. Who'da thunk?

I'd say the three types of classes are... Pure Martial (Fighter, Monk, etc) Full Spellcaster (Wizard, Cleric, etc) And Mixed (Paladin, etc). You then have Power Source - divine , primal, arcane, tool. This gives us a nice 4x3 spread, with sorcerer or wizard as an outlier.

I don't think Stat bonuses are species-defining mechanics. Dragonbreath, shapeshifting, flying, smolness and giantism, innate luck... those are fantasy-race defining traits.

Yes and no. Definitely, the vast majority of players come to the table with a story concept in mind and pick the best mechanics to fit that concept. On the other hand, there's already a tendency to treat all sapients as just "pointy ear humans" or "short humans" or "humans with a tail" etc...

Yep, that's me saying exactly that, first page, first responce. Just thought I'd see how far the mace influence went. Was mostly a curiosity thing.

I mean, "laser cleric" was just a nickname for the Devoted Cleric option in 4e. Just because no one is using that nickname in 5e doesn't mean the heart of the concept (radiance damage blaster) isn't around. Light domain fills that niche nicely, for instance, on top of getting a bunch of fire...

On a whim, I looked up Final Fantasy white mages. FF1 white mage used hammers. FF2 didn't have jobs. FF3's white mage used "staffs" but check out the concept art. FF4's white mage, Rosa, was an archer - a niche but still used cleric weapon option in D&D. FF5's white mage is like FF3's - used...

4e laser cleric wasn't popular? Or are you talking about the 5e's knowledge/light/etc clerics?

To be fair, clerics aren't really fitting the real world warrior monks definition either. The fundamental difference between a monk and a priest in reality is the former is expected to live an ascetic lifestyle, usually separated from the world as well as worldly pleaures, whereas a priest is...

Nitpick - Its actually part of their species background, as described in Mordenkainen Book of Foes. They're created directly from the sapient chaos magic. 5e Elves are just old school (2e/3e) Eladrin-as-energy-beings who chose to take physical form, and when they die, return to being those...

Monks are the ONLY class that relies on raw stats for skills. Casters have magic to supplement. Rogue, Ranger, Bard, Artificer have Expertise. Barbarians have Primal Knowledge and Fighters have Tactical Mind. Paladins are the closest to the monk's situation, but they're still half-casters...

Agree to disagree