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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7106445" data-attributes="member: 5100">To address the OP:Barbarian - kill it. Seriously. The rage should be put into a Fighter subclass. Also, why do totems only work if you have anger management issues? It's a hot mess.Bard - Mixed feelings. I kind of enjoy them, but they really are kind of a weird concept. Keep them so you don't have to have Clerics for heal bots. Maybe make them a bit more druid-y and a bit less skill monkey.Cleric - Blow it up. Remove turn undead (not Channel Divinity, just turning); maybe leave it for a domain or two, but nuke it from the core class. Also, less tanky. Either reserve the heavy armor for war domain only (what complete freaking imbecile decided a Life Cleric should have heavy armor?) or give the base class only light armor and grant medium armor to anyone currently getting heavy.Druid - Blow it up. I think this one is beyond salvaging. Just go ahead and make it the home of all the weird nature things that don't go anywhere else. Pick your subclass: Shifter, Totem, Animal Companion, Spells. Pick one. Shut up because no one loves you, anyway.Fighter - Someone has to be the best at fighting. These guys should be it.Monk - Erm... Dunno. The class doesn't suck, but maybe it should be moved into a supplement. Maybe the one with the Mystic.Paladin - Keep it, but only so the Cleric doesn't have to have heavy armor. Either that, or just make the player use multiclassing to get a homicidal priest.Ranger - Aragorn. With the Barbarian dead and the pets moved to the hippy Druids, the Ranger is free to be the hardest SOB to kill in the game. Sure, they can do reasonable damage. Not as much as the Fighter or the Rogue -- at least not all at once. They'll just live long enough for it to balance out.Rogue - Thief and skill monkey. The sneak attack is nice, but there shouldn't actually be a debate about whether a swashbuckler (swordsman) would be better built using the Fighter class or not (hint: if your job is to stick the other guy with a weapon, use the Fighter).Sorcerer - The original purpose was to make spell slots suck less. 5E has obsoleted this need, so nuke at will. If you're going to keep it, then make the mechanics actually play out like someone with magic running through their blood. Casting spells just like a Wizard does not capture that feel. Either excuse them from VSM or give them a new power structure. Either way, when it's all done, it'll probably make a great Psion, too.Warlock - Aren't these guys just Sorcerers with a lease? The original Warlock was awesome because the core premise was magic without resource management. That's not what we got in 5E. Either put it back to zero resource management or merge it with Sorcerer and make them late bloomers.Wizard - They finally fixed Vancian slots! But, they broke the schools of magic. The Evoker needs to be kicked in the junk. Maybe keep the schools, but not structure the sub-classes around them.</blockquote>

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