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I've long considered mixing a little 4E and Cantrip scaling into 5E. Instead of giving out Extra Attack, have weapon damage scale by dice at 5th, 11th, and 17th, and then replace extra attack with thematic abilities for the classes (fighters get weapon specialization/mastery, barbarians get half...

Healing spells in 5E did less healing than damaging spells. They didn't even match the DMG spell creation guidelines, and damage spells often did more damage than those guidelines. Healing has to be more than damage to make it worth doing over just killing the enemy faster.

I like your idea number one. 4 feats, 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th, let's a character boost a 16 to a 20. If they feel they really need to boost two stats, they can use ASIs, which does mean Monks, Paladins, and Rangers feel like they lack feats though.

Origin feats shouldn't give ability increases. I do like the idea of some ability score flexibility, but I don't think that should be a feat by itself. Yes, it will open up different multiclass combos, but it should be mostly balanced. Personally, I'd keep casting stars to Int, Wis, and Cha...

Thanks for all the input! In my experience, Charisma gets dumped unless someone is using a Charisma class. I want to see more people think about putting their 10 or 12 in Cha, even when it's not part of their class, just for decision variety. I do think contacts and fame/infamy is the way I'm...

This is an interesting concept. I wonder if Eldritch Knight/Arcane Trickster could be adjusted into multiclass subclasses. Like, you can take your class's subclass or you can take a different class as a subclass. I remember in Baldur's Gate 2 having to decide between being a single class with a...

That's probably an issue with rogues not having great feat support. But Dual Wielder probably helps, I'd have to crunch some numbers elsewhere. Rogues haven't felt weak in my games, but we're usually not heavily optimizing.

A damage Fighter is (2d6*+4)x2, or 24, or 16 with a 65% hit chance, and can double thet once per short rest. A TWFing rogue is 5d6+5, or 23, or 16.3 with 65% miss chance. They lack the fighter's action surge, though.

I feel like Rogues are often underestimated because people don't see just how much TWFing and advantage boost sneak attack hit chance. A level 20 rogue has one attack for 1d6+5 and one for 1d6 and 10d6 sneak attack. 12d6+5 is 47, which looks like less than the fighter's (2d6*+5)x4, or 48, plus...

I'm fine with that. Wizards should be skilled at a lot of things; a limited class skill list that has at least 8 skills would make sure there's always a choice even when you have Int 20 (5+2), or even reduce base skills on Wizard to 1+Int or Arcana+Int since they're going to have high int. But...

Or split Dex into Agility and Dexterity, and split Wisdom into Wisdom and Perception. This was something I always wanted to do back in 3E.

I feel like Str and Dex come with their own penalties for dumping them. Sure, heavy armor characters can have high AC with a low Dex, but they still feel that bad initiative and bad Dex saves (I felt this constantly with my dwarf life cleric). Low Str is felt in my games because I used the...

My old thought for this is to have spellcasting have "skill taxes" if I were to tie skills to Int. Sure, wizards get extra skills, but they need to spend them on Arcana and Concentration to be useful at spellcasting. Not sure if I actually want that, though. (Also thought once about how some...

I just saw this. I'm currently thinking of a way to adjust that, so weapon Cantrips scale properly with attacks.

That would only benefit 18 or higher, and not penalize 8. I've been thinking of changing attunement slots to Proficiency Bonus, or just ignoring the number.

My very simple Ranger patch: Deft Explorer adds Proficiency in Survival, or Expertise in Survival if you already were proficient; all rangers should have Survival. Move Relentless Hunter to 5th level. Replace it's text with: "When you cast Hunter's Mark, you can choose to remove it's...

My favorite thing about 5E was baking Subclasses (and subraces/lineages/ancestries into the races/specieses). Class to Subclass allows for Classes to stay broad themes while subclasses holds the specializations. It made it so we could avoid the class bloat that 3E and 4E got, and allows for more...

I miss Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma having functions outside of their skills and saves (and magic for casters). In 3E, Int gave extra skill points and languages. This kept it from being dumped to the floor, or at least made you feel it if your character idea came with an 8 Int; I know I...

In 4E, half-elves were able to learn 1 at-wills power from any class that they could use as an encounter power. While at-wills were largely equal, equivalent to 5E Cantrips if they got to add casting modifier to damage, it did boost their versatility. If I ever finish up my full house rule...

I love most of the new art. I only have two complaints really, and they're just because they aren't my preference. 1) I don't like that all of the character art has very human faces. I assume they chose that art direction because it helps people project onto the characters more, but I...