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The only feat I've really knuckled down to make was for a character made to level 20 who wanted to use the halfling luck racial feature, rogue lucky class feature, and the lucky feat. So to make the character just exist as obscenely lucky, we made a feat for his unique weapons. Improved...

I'm sure other people have been in this boat before. I've been playing as one character for a few years now in one campaign, doing random one shots in between. For one shots, it's easy and the backstory being ultra fleshed out doesn't matter too much. But now, we are starting a side campaign...

The big change would be the number of prepared spells yeah but more so would be the loss of potency on my Int based skill checks, of which there is a lot when I'm a majority utility caster, needing to work out information and learn stuff with arcana and nature and investigation and such. I'd...

I'm playing a 3 Warlock 9 Wizard right now in my main campaign and it's allowed for a fun, but surprisingly balanced character. The big difference is that since my character contacted their patron through research and is drawing power from them through their learning we decided to make my...

Okay, so WAY WAY WAY more discussionthan I was anticipating. Here are the solutions I've come upwith to the major problem in the OP. First off, these solutions are based onthe knowledge that 5e IS balanced around the 6-8 encounter day, butis not hard set on it. The edition is made to be...

This is still extremely vague in my mind, but I have been looking over a number of classes recently as I have been making lots of new characters, and through playing through these classes I have found that often their main draw shows up so sparingly that it makes them feel incredibly...

Here is an incredibly well written post by Keith Baker (author of the Eberron campaign setting) explaining leveling with PCs, or at least how he sees it. https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?505457-Eberron-What-s-Erandis-Vol-Been-Doing-For-3-000-Years Hopefully this will shed some light on...

Probably a little late to the party, but I did actually made a 5e Wizard archtype that combines spells in the way you mentioned. Here's a link to the google doc if you want to check it out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lsP4r-ZgI8jHNFDWlr-t9YZnulazwD7XUxvu9oEGunU It's not entirely what...

Oh sorry I meant for the Wizard. Also still kicking around ideas for this. So idea for the Close Quarter's Shooter capstone fighting style. Trick Shot: requires Close Quarters Shooter: When a creature within 30ft of you has total cover, you can make an attack roll with disadvantage against the...

Nothing right off the top of my head... maybe something like a minor twin cast for cantrips, so that they stay viable in the face of signature spell.

Oh duh I completely forgot about Warlock invocations, I'm certain there's a way to get all skills at lower level with those and probably avoid the Barbarian dip.

With the release of the Mystic take 2, it's officially become possible to get every skill proficiency, as well as 6 expertise'd skills. Here is how: Half elf: Nature and Religion Entertainer Background: Acrobatics, Performance Level 1 choose bard, choose Sleight of Hand, Animal Handling...

Right of course, all I mean is that the rest of the game is built around that set up, so when you make an ability it needs to follow that set up as well or else it unbalances the whole game.

Well not every fight is a boss fight right? You go through X number of diabolical minions before you battle with the big boss. Every fight isn't CR 20.

Long Post Warning: I’ve been thinking about this thread A LOT, on and off writing a big long response. I really like your ideas in general, the theming of the capstone ability should be the much stronger than they generally are, and should capture the pinnacle of the “fantasy” of that class...

First, the double damage is used in the Rouge Assassin's level 17 ability, where you double damage on a surprised enemy (which can reach frankly ludicrous levels with sneak attack) Second, I did play around with a critical hit but for a once per rest feature an ordinary critical did not feel...

Gladiator is a fairly popular class to whip up a houserule version of, but I felt like a lot of these classes didn't capture the feel of what a gladiator truly is. First is that it IS a fighter, as much as people want different classes, this is not one that should be split I feel. Second is that...

It is a bonus action. I was also considering the maneuvers but I wanted to differentiate it from the Battlemaster which can already take on a heavy support role. Also as it is it is somewhat restricted to what the 4th edition archetypes did, ie. one focused on attack and move, the other on...

Oh boy, thanks for telling me, I just copy paste straight from my google docs whenever I'm posting a finished product.

A lot of people felt that the Artificer being a wizard tradition didn't really work properly, I agree. I've seen a lot of Artificer classes but I feel like they didn't capture the Fantasy of an artificer, many made archtypes focusing on what the Artificer could do instead of what they could...