Level Up (A5E) A5Evening: An All Party Roundup: June 20th with Peter Martin and Jim Temple

[Selganor]

Since I might play my Essentialist Esper with a Chef Background on saturday I'll go through Plant Witch Press cooking related stuff tonight and will ask anything that I notice (strange or missing) here.

But I already got a question for the ballance consultant:

Any hints on balancing the features of a new archetype?
I'm still not finished with my Essentialist Esper but won't need the level 6+ archetype features till way later.

 

[Timespike]

Since I might play my Essentialist Esper with a Chef Background on saturday I'll go through Plant Witch Press cooking related stuff tonight and will ask anything that I notice (strange or missing) here.

But I already got a question for the ballance consultant:

Any hints on balancing the features of a new archetype?
I'm still not finished with my Essentialist Esper but won't need the level 6+ archetype features till way later.

I know you didn't ask me, but I can offer a few pieces of advice as someone whose total number of designed archetypes is now in the triple digits.

The first is to check the power level of the features for other archetypes of the same level. If you're still unsure, look at features from similar classes of roughly the same level. Those will at least give you a handy ballpark. So for instance, if I was designing a wizard archetype and wasn't sure if a 6th-level feature was the right power level, comparing it to other 6th-level wizard archetype features can help. The second is that if there's nothing comparable, look at 5th-7th level features of other spellcasting classes for guidance.

And while the esper isn't a spellcaster, it does have a similar role, so I think comparing to spellcasters is a decent baseline there.