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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonsi256" data-source="post: 5415063" data-attributes="member: 86164">Dude, no offense, but you’ve got it all wrong.I’m putting aside personal preference of style for now and focusing purely on mechanical effectiveness. Take it from one of the more veteran homebrewers out there (I’ve been D&D-ing since the late 80s and homebrewing since the early 90s, btw).And it’s not just my opinion, but things I’ve picked up from the best char-optimizers in the more popular RPG boards and a lot of DMs and players with even a longer gaming mileage than myself. I’d like to start by stating what’s obvious to many: the core trio (books) holds the most broken stuff out there (e.g. Forcecage and Gate spells).Another important insight is that there’s no way on earth you can apply so many changes in a matter of days and have a prayer of reaching a balanced and fun to play result. You don’t make the game more fun by pumping stats or increasing dice-rolling.As levels go up, those few plusses to hit/damage/AC are barely significant and there are just too many dice rolling around that really slows the game down to a crawl. You also fail to see the real cause of the huge gap between melees and full-casters:1. Action Economy abuse.2. Options – you actually narrowed them down for most melees – namely Barbarian, Monk, Paladin, Ranger and Rogue (explanation: flat stat-bonuses are not options). Feats:Giving more feats to the melees is nice.Giving more to spellcasters means soooo many more options and more abuse of the action economy. You pumped up the big trio even further and added the Bard to the group by making it a Bard – Sublime Chord mesh (which totally misses the point of “jack of all trades, master of none”).Some of the class abilities you presented are totally insignificant compared to others (e.g. Enhanced Weapon, Unarmored Training and Arcane Bolt). Resting to recharge magical items – this makes absolutely no sense and is counterproductive (the “go NOVA and go to bed” syndrome is already a problem without this change).   I’d tell you to go and take a peek at my houserules, but I guess I already got you too antagonized to even suggest you draw ideas from them, so I’ll just point you to <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5390799-post57.html" target="_blank">a short summary of what’s in them</a> and the motivations behind the changes I introduced (to be contributive, house rules should have motivations other than just "I feel like having them that way").Details regarding the base/prestige classes I created are not in there, so I’ll just say that the main guideline for me was _ options _ – lots and lots of options for practically any single/multi class build a player could possibly think of (unless one intentionally shoot himself in the leg) and significantly narrowing the gap (power-wise AND option-wise) between them.</blockquote>

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