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Damage auras can be used to warn PCs that this is a serious challenge, maybe one beyond them. For instance if you have the critter wade through mooks killing them all it gives the PCs a round or two to prepare - or flee.

It becomes an Improvised Weapon and rules for that apply.

A sling stone does not have the thrown property. Nor does an arrow.

It's different. Both the spear and the javelin have the thrown property; sling bullets and arrows do not. (Actually, I think the bow and sling should key off Str, not Dex, but that's for another thread.)

Why? Surely one of the party spellcasters will be able to help them in this regard?

That's correct but not relevant. This uses muscle-power to launch spears and javelins, which both have the thrown property.

(I don't have a Beyond account so cannot see the stats.) Why are you assuming magic equipment? CRs are normalised against a party without magical equipment, are they not? If you're assuming equipment that bypasses an opponent's defences then of course the effective CR of that opponent is going...

Thrown weapons can use your Str mod anyway (PHB p.14).

No, because you're swapping a defensive ability for an offensive one. Plus the player is already swapping it out for the ability to do more damage by using a two-handed weapon or two weapons.

Not if there's a substantial difference between a Short Rest and a Long Rest.

I'd rather give all Long Rest classes recoveries on Short Rests with extended recovery on a Long Rest. Basing everything around Short Rest helps prevent the 5 minute workday.

I don't like the class having so many attacks. Particularly the 4th attack, as that's the Fighter's capstone.

Not exactly what you're after but in a previous edition there was Mordenkainen's Lucubration which allowed the recovery of one spell of lower level. IIRC it was a 9th level spell. Pushing that into 5E you might make it a 9th level spell that recovers 1 slot of 6th level or lower (depending upon...

D'oh! Middle age moment alert!

Yes, but how are you getting the Bonus Action in the first place? You don't automatically get a Bonus Action. Something needs to generate it.

How are you generating the Bonus Action required to cast Sanctuary?

Rule 0 has already been covered but Rule 1 has not: if everyone is having fun you are doing it right.

Interesting. My initial thought is that either you mandate no feats or that the capstone becomes all stats are treated as 20 for saves and defensive skill rolls. As is, imagine the difference in power between two level 20 PCs of this class (perhaps generated for a L20 one-off) one having taken...

3E was made for multi-classing. I remember conjuring a Fighter / Rogue / Royal Herald / some other PrC that advanced spellcasting - I called him the accidental archmage.

The fluff would be that the PC is pulling on experience, focus, or (for saves) sheer stubbornness as appropriate. You could call it "Taking a deep breath." or "Stopping and thinking." or "A flash of inspiration."