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Message: <blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8610757" data-attributes="member: 10531">I'm going to throw in two additional restrictions on my approach. First, the resulting class list has to look to someone who played AD&D like it is an evolution of the game they played, rather than something invented whole-cloth anew. Second, it has to involve minimal changes from what 5e actually did. That is, something that would look like what the actual designers of D&D 5th would have done if they'd been under a "six classes and no more" restriction.Under those restrictions . . .The first consolidation is easy enough; Barbarian, Paladin, and Ranger all become various subclasses of the Fighter. The ones that cast spells even use the same one-third caster table as the Eldritch Knight. The 5e fighter's extra ASI/feats move over into the subclasses, so they can be swapped out for subclass-specific features as necessary. The biggest change from general 5e design is that the spellcasting subclasses are given their own spell lists instead of using a class list. Consolidating the half-caster lists into third-caster lists might also require going back to the older editions' approach of spells having different levels on different spell lists.The second is also easy enough; Sorcerer is just an Innate Wizard instead of a Book Wizard. The school-based subclasses of Wizard mostly get dropped or substantially reworked in the process.The third sees Druids and Warlocks basically converted into Cleric domains. This will disappoint fans of the ultra-flexible-customizable Warlock options, but all we're after here is the "essentials" of each class, and the core here is that your power comes from some sort of outside force that has chosen you. One further change might be breaking down the cleric spell list into  a handful of spheres, and giving each domain a different set of them.And, oh, hey, we've already reached six: <s>Barbarian</s>, Bard, Cleric, <s>Druid</s>, Fighter, Monk, <s>Paladin</s>, <s>Ranger</s>, Rogue, <s>Sorcerer</s>, <s>Warlock</s>, Wizard. Reworking Monk and Rogue into one lightly-armored skilled striker class doesn't even need to be tried.</blockquote>

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