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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7957555" data-attributes="member: 6987520">[USER=467]@Reynard[/USER] , [USER=61277]@Mepher[/USER]:One last suggestion I am going to make for now about making 5E feel more like AD&D, it is a BIG one, not likely desired by most 5E players:Remove Subclasses.There, I said it. Can't take it back.If you look at the core classes, which subclass features added, and compare their abilities to AD&D classes, you will see you are much closer. Subclasses blur lines: Fighter and Rogues with magic, Barbarians summoning spirits, etc. and that makes classes feel less unique IMO.Now, I have suggested this before (many moons ago when I was first learning 5E), and people rebelled because they want something that makes their character "special" and different. My answer to them and I still hold true to it: ROLE-PLAY.Why do you need a mechanical difference or a strange feature to make your character out to what you want it to be? For myself, anyway, it was never a problem to just play my character differently--and that made them different.To me, subclasses and the features they grant are basically like HP bloat--simply unnecessary.Now, to balance things a bit. Offer proficiencies maybe instead. Want to be an Assassin, then at 3rd level take proficiency in the poisoner's kit. Want your Ranger to have a beast companion? Take Animal Handling and role-play it with your DM! Make an adventure out of capturing and/or befriending the animal, and training it.However you do it, I am sure there is a better, less "power"-influencing way.</blockquote>

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